"Doesn't something feel off?"
At Deren's home, Sinestra took her daughter's hand while no one else was around and spoke in a low voice.
"Mother, what feels off?" The Black Dragon seemed not to understand what the Old Dragon Mother meant.
"That Deren has been going out far too often lately!" Sinestra said.
"It's not that bad. Stellagosa said she had to write a progress report lately, so she needed to keep up appearances." Thinking of the bag of money she had just received, Onyxia felt delighted.
"Something's wrong! Don't let yourself get blindsided. That Blue Dragon has bad intentions." With the instincts of a former dragon queen, Sinestra sensed that things were far from simple.
"Blindsided?" Onyxia gave a bitter smile. "When you possess a treasure, your friends will always look at you with envy. They'll also come up with all sorts of excuses to borrow that treasure and show it off."
"You... you already knew?" Hearing her daughter's tone, Sinestra realized she seemed to have guessed long ago.
Onyxia shrugged. "I can't let jealousy consume me. I know Deren still cares about me. It's just that sometimes, he has to consider more things."
"Sigh!" Sinestra let out a breath. "The strong always attract the opposite sex. Alexstrasza has multiple mates, while I could only have your father. I watched him leave affection everywhere he went. That is the rule of this world."
"No, I believe Deren still loves me. He has his reasons." Onyxia tried to convince her mother, and herself as well.
"This is the price he must pay to change the world and alter fate." The Old Dragon Mother sighed.
"Hehe, Mother, you don't know what my original fate was like, do you?"
"My original fate?"
Onyxia did not hide it. "I was supposed to die