[Dragon Nation.]
"You devil!! Get out of here!!" A middle-aged woman whose face was contorted with disgust, shrieked, shoving a fifteen-year-old girl to the polished stone floor.
"You are a curse!! Get out! Or you will ruin our family!!" A stern man with the powerful build of a high-ranking Dragon, added, his eyes burning with loathing.
The little girl, her thin clothing already ragged from previous punishments, pleaded through tears that streamed down her whip-marked cheeks.
"Mum! Dad! Please! I am innocent!!"
"Innocent!?! You are saying your sister framed you?!! What will she gain from that?!" The man roared, kicking her back with his foot.
The girl turned desperately toward her elder sister, who sat composed on a plush couch, a flicker of satisfied malice quickly masked by a martyr's expression.
"Sister! Sister…" She crawled toward her, hope the last fragile thing she clung to.
