I look around the pair toward the roll-keeping desk, and my eyes widen. “Is he…?” I whisper. Mira glances and mutters a curse. “A separatist’s kid? Yep. See that shimmering mark that starts on the top of his wrist? It’s a relic from the rebellion.” I lift my eyebrows in surprise. The only relics I’ve ever heard of are when a dragon uses magic to mark the skin of their bonded rider. But those relics are a symbol of honor and power and generally in the shape of the dragon who gifted them. These marks are swirls and slashes that feel more like a warning than a claiming. “A dragon did that?” I
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The children of the executed parents were marked to identify them.The children learn these marks become useful. The children of the rebellion were conscripted into the Riders Quadrant. This would prove theirloyalty or they would die during training
