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Kinkaid.  "The council
has heard some disturbing rumors about Lady Asha." At this point, he
turned to the lady in question.  "You are the image of your lovely
mother.  I must offer my condolences on her death; she was a true lady of the
light and will be missed."
    Asha bowed her head
briefly, refusing to think of her mother.  "You spoke of rumors?"
    "There are some who
worry you are being held against your will here.  We wonder at your continued
absence from your own house."
    "I am a female of
the dragon seer line; I claim no house and will stay where I will."
    "No house?!" 
Lord Rendal sputtered.  "You are a female of the House of Earth.  Your
place is with us."
    Asha looked over both
council lords, her eyes dissecting them.  "I am a dragon seer, as my
mother was before me.  She was of the House of Air before she married.  Were I
to claim any house, it would not be the one where I was kept prisoner against
my mother’s actions: nor would I claim the man who killed my mother as my
father.  In any event, I am a dragon seer, and as in the old ways, I will claim
no house."
    "Lady, many things
have changed with the times and the lack of females born in Dracon."  Lord
Topa looked apologetic, whereas Rendal just appeared smug.  Asha was not
getting a good feeling, and she could feel her emotions calling her fire even
as Lord Topa was speaking.  "I would be honored if you claimed the House
of Air, but the laws are clearly written: a female falls to the protection of
her father’s line until she mates."
    After a short pause, Asha
fought to contain whatever was trying to escape her throat, finally swallowing
it back.  "I have been trapped in a small box most of my life," Asha
said, her voice dropping even as her fire began to burn behind her eyes.  Her
fingertips were tingling with the need to attack.  "So that the walls
press in on me.  By dragon law, my mother was trapped before me and lived her
life in fear and pain without any protection from the laws you speak of." 
    "We had no idea Lady
Laksee was in such a situation, or you yourself.   If we had, we would have
protected you both..."
    She looked up at the
dragon lords, the fire in her eyes halting Lord Topa’s words.  "I do not
need your protection ," she spat the word back at them along with
the rancid taste it left in her mouth.  "Nor will I be bound by dragon
law.  I will not be trapped again."
    "You have clearly
been influenced somehow by this mage and his kind!"  Lord Rendal boomed
back, slashing a hand toward Braedon, who had stood up and was moving purposefully
her way.  "You fall under my protection of the House of Earth, and we will
see you safe from the likes of this human.  You have no choice."
    She turned her burning
eyes his way and smiled.  "You think not?  You should keep in mind, Lord
Rendal, that my mother was all things good and gentle, and she paid the price
for it.  I have learned my father’s lessons well.  I am neither of those
things."  Just as her hands burst into flame, Braedon caught them in his
and pulled the fire into himself.  She was shielded from the council lord’s
enough that they did not see what she did, only that Braedon was shackling her
in what appeared to be an intimate matter.
    "Unhand her, human! 
What do you think you are playing at?"  Rendal stepped forward. With her
hand still clasped in Braedon’s, Asha let loose some of the rage she
suppressed, knowing he would absorb it.  She imagined Lord Rendal being slapped
about like the fool he was.  Unfortunately, she had underestimated her rage;
while Braedon caught the brunt of it, he was not fully prepared, and some
escaped.  A flame shot out from their joined hands, catching the council Lord
when he was reaching out to separate them.  It was enough of a burst to toss
him back six feet and crash him into the marble wall behind him.   He hit the
wall, and the dragon knights all stood at attention, their eyes going from the
dragon still smoking