“The throne,” she corrected sharply. “And the crown which goes alongside it.” I stepped forward abruptly, dropping into my father’s seat and leaning against the carved back, the Dragon scales which adorned it digging into my spine. “I don’t think it fits,” I decided, rising again just as swiftly. “That’s because you are still growing into it. It will fit perfectly when your time comes,” she assured me. I thought on that, wondering if perhaps that was what I was looking for, but then I remembered my brothers laughing together on that mountaintop and something in my chest twisted sharply. “No,”
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