Dragoncrest Cliffs the first casualty of war is innocence

his words are not the words that blodreina wants to hear; but she reminds herself that he never knew wildfire. he never knew the history of them. if he'd heard of the commander's ex it had only been in passing. it reminds blodriena that despite being kru born he is new to drakru. dio and blodriena herself are all that's left of the original drakru back when it'd been sleeping dragon and it fills her with an aching and hollow sadness. blodreina already lashes out because she does not know how to process the grief that rips through her. she doesn't know how to pick up the pieces of a broken heart without it cutting her.

perhaps you didn't know her as well as you'd like to think you did. the bitch is back; and yet did that make her words untrue? maybe. maybe not. either way they were, if nothing else, mean. good, she thinks. mean is what she's good at. anger is what she knows how to process. they were her weapons and she's had her whole life practicing how to weld them.