"Why are you letting me go?" The Emerald Dragon managed to say after Thrud erected a wall between them to hide from his view and opened a way out for him.
"You need my Origin Flames for your army. You need me as your general. You've spent months training me, sharing your plans of conquest with me. How can you free me knowing that I might betray you the moment I get out of here and ruin everything?"
"I don't need a slave. I already have plenty of them thanks to my crazy father." She said amid sobs. "I can always find another Xedros for the Origin Flames. Mogar is full of idiots like him.
"The only reason I needed you was because I thought that, after hundreds of years of solitude, of being treated as nothing but the offspring of the Mad King, I had finally found someone to share my life with.