Silja looked at the man who disappeared behind the bushes and
Donovan let Silja sit there for a while and none of them said anything.
"Come, let's go," after some time Donovan stood up and both of them started to walk towards the other shore of the hill and both of them sat down.
"What does he mean by I'm different from you? The gift you mentioned, is it related to your powers which are different from many dragons?" Silja paused the question as soon as they sit down.
"It's a long story," Donovan looked at Silja and smiled.
"I don't feel like going back tonight," she said looking at him in his eyes.
Both of them stared at each other for a while before Donovan nodded his head.
"Very well," he took a deep breath.
"The different power I have is because of my mother. A gift for coming from the extraordinary bloodline, " Donovan smiled. Silja frowned.
"Queen Abrielle is not my birth mother," he revealed and Silja's eyes widened dramatically.
She blinked her eyes a few times, thinking if she heard him right.
"Years ago my father fell in love with a woman. Calista Grego. A woman who was standing at Pinnacle in her time. Desire by almost every man of her time. Then, all races lived in harmony. Also, dwarfs were disposed of by locals; they already had made their own kingdom in the East.
There were no whole North, small lords were used to ruling the land on their own accord," Donovan's voice was mellow but indifferent as if the story he was telling wasn't about his mother but someone whom he didn't have anything to relate. And this broke Silja's heart.
But she has never thought that Abrielle isn't actually Donovan's mother.
No one could tell by looking at the way the woman treated Donovan. Then what about Zivan and Samuel? Are they Abrielle's son or….
Questions started to sprout as she heard Donovan.
"Well, she was very beautiful and also the best dragon of her time. She used to throw challenges and then defeat people, be it fight, art, debates or any other thing. Feeling very thrilled to defeat men in a male-dominated society. How such a woman could not catch any young man's eyes with her sparkling personality. My father was one of her suitors. Both of my grandfathers from both sides were very good friends at that time. Just like daughter like father, grandfather Drayce Grago and Argas Regalhelm used to fight friendly matches a lot. At that time only grandfather Regalhelm was the only one who could match Drayce in strength and slyness," Donovan smiled saying that.
"Drayce Grago and Argas Regalhelm?" Silja's eyes widened as she heard the names.
"I have a book called 'Wings and fire'," she said. (The book she got as a gift from Brandon. Check chap 21 for the reference of a fight between both grandfathers.)
"What?" Donovan was even more shocked when he heard that she had a very rare book in her possession that belonged to his family.
"Where did you get that from!?" Donovan asked, astonished.
"I got that as a gift from someone on my last birthday," Silja said proudly. That book was very rare and it was hard to obtain.
"From whom?" Donovan lifted his eyebrows, almost all the books published were under the hand of Regalhelms and Geragos. And later when Gragos declined Regalhelms took all the books in their possession. There were not many copies than who was the one to get one?
"That's not my secret to tell," Silja shook her head. Brandon had mentioned that she should keep it a secret that he was the one giving her that book.
Donovan's eyes narrowed further but he didn't push her, well there were many more ways to find out.
"So tell me more," Silja urged him to tell the story.
"So two families were quite close and when their children came of age grandfather Regalhelm asked for Calista's hand for his son but the other party rejected the proposal. Actually Grego family was one of the pure-blooded who has never let the bloodline get corrupted. On the other hand, Regalhelms used to be royal but Argas has married a commoner's daughter and thus the son born to him; my father wasn't actually pure-blooded. And Drayce denied marrying his only child to the mixed blood. He wanted his daughter to marry someone from a pureblood family and continue to keep the bloodline pure. But he was unaware that the daughter he wanted to marry pureblood had already fallen for my father. My father might not be pure-blooded but he was still a member of the powerful bloodline so wasn't weak slightest. Sly and smart Zachary has long won Calista's heart without anyone knowing," Donovan continued the story.
While Silja's eyes were sparkling as she heard the forbidden love story of her mother in law and father in law.
When Donovan saw her enthusiasm he forgot the melancholy in his heart.
He continued with a sigh, "She was sure that her stubborn father would never let her marry the man she loved so she decided to run away from her family's house and marry in secret. Well initially my father didn't agree but when he found that it was actually impossible to get permission from Drayce he did what my mother said….They ran away and married each other in some faraway place. They get married in the forest, in the presence of nature and bind their love.
My father stayed there in a small house with her, away from all and away from her crazy father who was looking for Calista like a mad man,"
Donovan stopped to take a breath but Silja looked at him with eager eyes. Silently telling him not to stop.
Donovan shook his head and then continued nonetheless.. He has never shared this with anyone but with her, it was like she deserved to know his each and every secret.