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Tris woke up on the couch that Nkio had put her on, for a few moments she lay there trying to think why she was lying on a couch when the last thing she remembered was talking to Niko and Kye about. Then all her thoughts stopped she remembered what they had been talking about, Her Kye, Kye being her father, a slave no avatar to a Dragon Lord. But still her father. For a second she wished she was back unconscious the thoughts that were whizzing around her head where making her feel ill. A dim part of her mind was telling she had done the girly thing of fainting and she should be embarrassed but she pushed that away. She had more important things to worry about. Slowly she sat up and the walked to her room and locked her door, she wanted to be completely alone. She sat down on her bed and tried to think calm her mind. When all was calm she thought over what she had just found out. Kye was an Avatar to a Dragon Lord, one that was worshipped by people and Kye had to do as he said or the Dragon Lord would hurt him in some way. Right she understood that. Kye had great power more then most men, he could aid the passing to the other realms. Right that she understood she had met some pretty powerful and unusual people in her time. Kye was her father, and Niko had known and not told her. That she didn't understand, she being to feel angry and betrayed, Niko was meant to be her friend and he had never told her or even hinted, now that. That hurt more then anything to find out that he knew about Kye and never told her.

She sat thinking about what kind of man he must have been to get her mother pregnant and then leave her with out a word of where to find him, the more she thought about it the more she realise how little her mother had talked about her father. She had told Tris that her father had been an adventurer and a fighter, and that he had died at sea when the ship he had been on sank. In the emerald sea. She snorted Kye could not die so that story was strangely amusing to her. She lay down on her bed and tried to think of things her mother had told her. When she had run out of things she was decidedly calmer, she swung her legs over the side of the bed and sat up, then she unlocked the door. She was calm but she still wanted to hurt Kye and Niko so much for not telling her, she knew that all she had to do was use her lighting and blow Kye up, sure he couldn't die but the lightning bolt would surely do some damage. She smiled for a second that at least would be satisfying.

She walked through the house to find Kye and Niko still outside. She walked out and saw that one of the huge vase's that had, had flowers in it had been reduced to rubble. She stood in the door way looking at them, her hands flexing her lighting ready to be come forth, she saw that Kye could not look at her. But Niko, Niko did. "Tris" he started "Please you must understand, we never lied to you, we just couldn't tell you" Tris stared at him for a second the lighting fading from her hands his voice was so pleading full of pain that she had found out in such a way. But she held herself "Oh I understand" she said dryly "A small matter of who or rather What my father is and you couldn't tell me" she said "what" with as much venom as she could and she saw Kye flinch "Good" part of her thought "make him suffer" But the nice part of her won over and she looked away shamed with herself for saying that.

She lent on the door frame looking at Kye "Have you nothing to say to me now" she asked Kye looked up at her, his silver eyes showed pain "What…." he began hoarsely "…What would you have me say" he asked before she had chance to reply he carried on "Would you have me say nothing you wanted to hear. Or that I am sorry, that I never wanted to leave, how I.." his voice cracked and he looked away again "Tris relented "your right" she said "That's not want I want to hear" she sat down leaning on the wall "What I want to hear is how and why all this has happened, who you really are, please" she asked "Mother never told me much". At that Kye looked up "No" he said "No she wouldn't have. He shifted in his seat and then looked at Niko "you have heard this before do you really want to again" Niko nodded "You are my friend I owe you that" An unspoken communication went between them and Kye nodded then he turned to Tris, "This Tris is the story of my life and I am nothing like what you think me to be".............................. Kye stood and paced the courtyard for a second looking to the sky, Zav came and into the courtyard and sat down next to Kye. Kye looked at the dog and then sat down amongst all the dust and rubble. "I will start before I was made immortal. My name, my real name, is Kavlan Kalavera" Tris frowned she had heard that name somewhere before, then she remembered a book in the Duke's library in Summersea "The Rebel Kavlan" she asked? Kye merely nodded, in answer.
"It was after the wars that I took the name Kye, it means rootless, my home was destroyed so it seemed fitting" Tris drew patterns in the dust listening. "After the wars I wandered I had no place to go, so I came east where everyone knew Kavlan but not what he looked like. When I reached Sotat I became a street juggler and performer and then a fighter. I got into many fights and killed many good people" Kye looked at the floor "I am not proud of that fact though" he said quietly, "I did fine for twenty years, then one day I killed a Mage's servant in a drunken fight.

The Mage came looking for me and demanded justice, since I had no money for the death fee the mage took me instead. I became his bonded servant I could not leave until he released me" Kye looked at Tris briefly but she was still looking at the floor. So he continued "Now this mage was not a moral or nice man and he discovered that I had a slight mage gift, nothing I could use myself but my blood would bind his spells and make things stronger" Tris looked up horrified "You let him use your blood for spells" she questioned. Kye rolled up his sleeve and passed a hand over his bared arm, to Tris's magical sight scars glowed silver all over his arm "Let would be the wrong word for it" he said rolling his sleeve back down "You know how people can be controlled by mages into doing what they will" he said softly. Tris nodded remembering Amery and what had happened to him. "Alright then what"? she asked. "He used my blood for many years, with out a care that he was slowly killing me, I was worthless to him, I had no value. I tried to fight him for those many years, painfully I never succeeded I was always punished for trying to get away but it never did stop me. Then one day the mage discovered that he needed dragons blood for a spell, one that would give him command of the dead or give him immortality which I cant remember now, so he made me go to the mountains above Sotat to kill a dragon and gets its blood". Tris looked at Kye then Niko, "dragons in Sotat" she said not believing them, it was Niko who answered "Yes, 300 hundred years back there were though they were seldom seen" Kye nodded in agreement.

"So off I went to certain death, to get this blood. However I knew more about dragons then the mage had thought I'd known. I had no intention of trying to kill one. When I reached the mountains I simply sat by a cave and waited until one of them came by and find me. Now I was hoping that they would simply eat me and have done with it, but the dragon that had came past was Lord Azreal."

Flash back to the mountains
A small rather thin person with badly scared arms. huddled on a rocky ledge near to one of the dragons cave he had been there for a good few days waiting for dragons. Finally three dragons returned to the cave to find the person there. The largest of the dragons and the oldest, Azreal reared up over the skinny human "What do you want Human, why have you trespassed here?" Boomed Azreal, of all the answers he had been expecting it had not been the one the human gave him or what he had done. The human stood and bowed to the dragon and then answered "My lord, what I want is to die, I came because I had to" Kye had told the dragon Azreal looked to his companions and speaking to them and then he lowered himself back down. "Why do you wish to die, and what do you mean you had to. Not some foolish quest for love" questioned the dragons. Kye shook his head. "No lord not for love. I am bound to a rather evil Mage, he is slowly killing me by using my blood. He sent me here because he found a spell that needed dragons blood, he hoped I would try to kill a dragon, but I have refused. I wont try to kill anything anymore" One of the dragons tilted its head to the side regarding Kye "The human speaks the truth" It told the others "But why would you want to die, just because you are bound to someone" It asked Kye.

Kye looked at the dragon "The mage is using my blood and me against my will to do evil, in turn of him forcing me each spell kills a little more of me. I was once a fighter, I want to die a clean death not little by little and not be able to do anything" the dragons looked to one another again talking. Kye waited on the rocks. Then one of the dragons looked to Kye "What is your real name" it asked suddenly. Kye bowed again "Its Kavlan Kalavera lord". The other dragons talked again and then two of them went inside the cave and ignored Kye completely. The last dragon had been the one that spoke to him first "I have heard the name of Kavlan the rebel , when I look into your eyes I can see the pain you talk of" The dragon was silent for a moment "Kye, I have a proposal for you, I will free you of your bond to this mage but in return I want your oath to me" Kye stood there, "You want me to trade being a slave to a man for being a slave to you" he asked boldly to his surprise to dragon shook his head "Not slave no, we dragons have Avatars, do you know what that means" Kye nodded mutely "Good then, I need an Avatar is getting harder and harder to deal with humans, now, in this form but with you, it would be easier" The dragon levelled its head to look at Kye, "It wont be easy" He warned "But I can offer you, things you may like, Immortality for one and your mage gift I could make you the most powerful mage on the mortal plains. All you have to do is serve me" Kye bowed his head thinking for a second then he looked up "My lord Dragon I would be honoured to trade and serve for you" he couldn't have been sure but he was sure the dragon smiled for a second "well that's good then, My name is Lord Azreal"

End flash back

"You mean that he wasn't angry because you had told him you were sent to kill one of them" Tris asked breathless. Kye shook his head "No, because he knew that I never would have and I had told him the truth and not lied. Dragons respect people who are honest with them" Tris nodded feeling impatient "Ok but please I want to know how you met my mother, why did you leave us" she asked resettling herself on the floor.

Kye smiled and then went on "I met your mother in a small town that's probably been forgotten now, she was visiting a friend I think and I was doing something for Lord Azreal, we met in a tavern" "A TAVERN" Tris interrupted "My virtuous mother in a TAVERN" Kye nodded "Yes with her friend, the friend dared your mother to talk to me and we hit it off. She was a lovely person then. So sweet" Kye smiled at the memory "To spare you long and boring details I went back home with your mother and courted her. I told her what I was and she didn't mind one bit,. She thought it was romantic. After a long time your mother got pregnant with you we were so happy I made all sorts of toys for you, do you remember wooden ones" Tris nodded "Yes I do, I loved them, no matter what I did they never broke" she told Niko who had been listening silently to the story. "I spelled them that way" Kye told her. "We were happy for two years and then the work I was doing for Azreal ended and I had to leave. I had told your mother that it would happen. I couldn't break the oath to Azreal. She was hurt as was I, I loved you so much, you didn't even notice when I had gone, your mother had decided it would be better that you didn't remember me. I checked in on you all your life, those mystery gifts were from me" Kye told her. Tris nodded that made sense for a lot of things.