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A women ended up taking me and she gave me a bath in warm water. She was gentle, and smiled. Her outfit was strange though, I knew she was from a whore house. She likely couldn't have a child of her own and was likely part of their informant chain.

"You will grow to be beautiful, I don't know who would try to hurt such a cute thing. But I will take care of you." She said. She was young likely only 19 which is old when most women get married by 14. She had pretty blue eyes and light brown hair.

Time passed and everyday the women was over all day and would feed me in the morning and I would fall asleep in her arms before bed. She told me stories as there were no books to read and she probably hadn't ever learned to.

I grew without any problems my brother was around often and so was she. She threw a fit the one day that the guild master decided I was going to learn how to use a sword and they settled with me learning to shoot a bow. Which I could already do. They all thought I was a natural but I had remembered my past two lives and remembered how to hold a bow and aim, I had all those years of practicing in my brain. They ended up teaching me combat and how to uses a sword and dagger and throwing knives. Before I knew it I was 11 years old. I had grown long black hair and my eyes were a blue purple. Everyone said the name Iris fit me perfectly. I was beautiful and was told I could go on jobs with my brother soon since I was able to do everything in training. I felt bad because I hide the fact that I could read a lot better than they knew and I could read what they considered old younger and I could speak it. I also was able to speak other languages since I taught myself them in my own time and I had the base of all of the languages since it was all formed from old tongue. The only real issue on going on missions with my brother was his position.

Except my brother had bought himself a title and land, so he hid the fact that he was a mercenary. He became more of an informant as our guild also was an information guild which it was more highly know for that. Due to it my brother had flourished as a merchant and was able to get more information for them even from other villages. I wasn't able to with him though since I was still younger and had a lot of the same features as my mother. She was beautiful which is why she was able to seduce our father and become queen and get away with anything she wanted.

Due to my brothers position I heard stories about my old life how the king gave his thrown to his half son after the loss of their daughter, her body was found burnt a 20 years ago. It was said after that people started to get sick, she was blessed and had given her people help and helped illness go down with a sewer system and a way to process water to insure it was clean. It was said that the dragon god had cursed their people after her death making it hard for their crops to grow and then a plague started the year that the prince was crowed and became king. Rumors had spread saying he killed the princess as nobody was ever found and that now him and his people are being punished for it, as the god wanted her to be queen and had blessed the young princess.

They were wrong though, although my brother did kill me. I was the dragon god that they are refuting to so theirs no way for me to curse anyone, whatever god is out their did that one on their own. It's the same god who kept making me be reborn and who was letting me remember my last lives.

I also left out the fact that I still had my magic and practices in secret. It wasn't as strong as before but I was able to cast small spells, all white magic. I could heal and create light enough to light up a dark room and controlled it enough to just light up enough space to read when I was supposed to be asleep. It wasn't fire magic though as it didn't burn anything and it radiates a relaxing gentle warmth. Which is why I refer to it as light magic, it's a slightly different element magic than fire but has the same base. I figured I should actually learn and practice my magic this time around so I won't make the same mistake twice. I also have tried to keep my distance from others that way nobody can betray me this time.