What My Father Mourns a Stranger is about
At eight, her dragon fire was drained to save her younger brother. She was then thrown off a cliff and grew up with amnesia. Fifteen years later, with her foster mother gravely ill, she enters the palace to beg for medicine. The king weeps before her portrait every day, yet beneath it he forces her to kneel on broken glass. When her brother smashes her medicine, she gives him the last of her dragon fire. He warms up, while she collapses among the shards. Only when the king tears open her tattered clothes does he see the old scar on her shoulder, identical to the one in the portrait.
