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“I can tonight,” he said with a smile.
“I am sorry, Dominick.”
“Do not be.” It was then that even though I felt my strength coming back to me, I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
Chapter Forty-Two
Dominick
Ihad never really felt fear before like the fear I felt while waiting for Meria to rise from the Mirror Sea. She was a mermaid, so I did not understand why she did not swim faster out of the depths. Had she drowned? I was about to enter the sea when the dragon appeared.
“You must not intervene. She is finding the truth she seeks.”
“Is she alright?” I asked the dragon.
“She is safe, human prince.”
I looked back into the water, only seeing the glimmering starlights shining. She was invisible to me.
“Why have you come here, prince?” I heard the dragon again. “I seek answers to the greatest desire of my heart.”
“What is that desire?” I looked into the dragon's eyes and tried as hard as I could to focus on my sister. I had never even seen her before, but I imagined a silhouette of a woman–a girl–lost, alone, and afraid.
“That is not your greatest desire, prince.”
“I wish to find my sister, to see my mother, and make her pay for what she did.”
“Should she pay? You are the Crown Walden Prince. You should be on the throne; it lacks a king.”
“I am cursed.”
“Most human royals are–as is your sister, whom you seek.”
“Yes, but the things I have done.”
“What have you done?” he asked. His words curled around me like smoke.
“I hurt people, I said.
“Lies! Human, do not tell lies to me. I know that you were forced. That is on someone else,” he growled.
“I killed my father!” I shouted.
“You believe this?”
“It is the truth.”
“Is it?” he asked.
“I came here for answers, not to be asked questions,” I said, the memory of my mother, the pain on her face, taking over my thoughts.
“You must choose a star, and your greatest desire will be revealed, and the answer you seek will be given.”
“I know that I want Meria, and I know that I killed my father.”
“One is true; the other a lie.”
“Which one?”