Chapter 26: Eliane

I lay strapped to the bed, a needle in each of my arms and legs. My father told me I needed to think about what I had done.

What had I done? I’m not even sure.

I had been helping Ancalagon get free, trying to help him escape and my father had come in and found me. Cal had tried to reach down to grab me. My father says he was trying to kill me, but I think he was trying to save me.

Of course, then, he blew his fire on me. He already knew it was too hot for me, I had told him, so then, maybe my father was right and he was trying to kill. He should have killed me, except….except, something happened. Somehow and I don’t now how, I blocked the fire.

My father had grabbed me and I had put a protective covering over us. As soon as the fire stopping raining down on us and we heard Ancalagon scream as he flew away with the others, my father had yanked me out of the burning building.

“Do you know what you’ve done, Eliane?” he had yelled at me.

“Father, I’m sorry. I didn’t want him to die.”