Loose Threads

by Fatespeaker

Darkstalker's story leaves us with a lot of questions. Who exactly was Queen Pearl, sister of Fathom? How much did the seer Allknowing really know? What happened to Thoughtful and Whiteout? Where did Clearsight's friend Listener go? These are the loose threads, the forgotten dragons. Let their voices be heard at last. (Collection of soliloquies from different perspectives.)

12. Diamond

12. Diamond

How dare you judge me.

I feel it now, the curse of my ancestors. Yes, a curse. That's what it is. Twice I have used my costly powers, only twice, and still I feel the rot eating at my soul. Did you not know that I suffer? Did you forget? That's a typical populace, the whole lot of you. Always forgetting.

If Arctic thinks I regard it as a gift, then he is every bit the fool I expected him to be. I hold the weight of a thousand worlds on my wings. And I bear my burden with dignity. No queen has faced what I have faced, seen what I have seen.

It is the duty of an IceWing animus to make something good of the evil. This duty I performed gladly, while my son utterly failed at it. A waste of magic. A waste of royal blood. All has gone to waste.

Now his NightWing is in my talons. What a pitiful thing she is. To think, this is the dragon who stole away my tribe's future, who brought the pillars of the world down with one swipe of her clumsy claws. She cowers, she regrets, but she has not yet paid. I cannot look at her. I stare off and fall silent.

Oh, soulless eyes, how you regard me. How you mock and revile. How dare you judge me!

Now a bit of light, and a moment of clarity. It is only me. It is only the thick, clean ice reflecting. Suddenly, I am sick. My own eyes repulse me. There is nothing more disgusting than the truth.

Shall I use the curse a third time? And drive myself to madness? Well, the whole world's gone to madness. No harm in a little more.

A thousand years from now, the dragons of Pyrrhia, thinking themselves so enlightened, will look back and laugh at us. They'll scoff at stupid Arctic, the foolish IceWing prince. They'll see his seductress Foeslayer as the smear on history that she is. The mixed dragonets? Ha! What a charmingly grotesque little story. And Diamond, oh silly Diamond, won't they get a kick about how hard she tried to fix her broken life? Won't the legends adore her useless attempts at justice?

Unless, of course, our whole tale is lost to the decay time. Wouldn't that be a blessing. There is no fate crueler than becoming history, being remembered by this world so revolting and wrong.

There will be no attempts at justice tonight, only vengeance. Oh, isn't that fine.

Long live Queen Diamond, and soon may she be forgotten.