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Responsibilities
[Carnelia]
What does one say when they are in the presence of someone who is practically a deity?
I don’t know what I was expecting when I met Primus’ mother. I knew she was a Star Fire Dragon, a Celestial Star Fire Dragon to be precise, but I didn’t know what that meant. Celestial dragons are as different from terran dragons as light is to mud. They live on a separate plane, not just in the sky, but somewhere above and beyond. They leave their home so rarely that sightings of them flying by are exceptionally rare.
And yet here I am, standing in front of one of them, about to marry her son.
A bright white refl
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