Oblivious to the two presences trailing behind her, Zara continued to walk. Though she tried to keep a straight face, her mind couldn't help but drift back to the boy from earlier.
"He's clearly a low-level Awakened, yet why did I feel like a slave in the presence of its master?" Zara mumbled. She had been trying to avoid saying this for a while because it was a wound to her dragon pride, but this was the exact feeling she got from the youth.
Hence the reason she wanted to stay as far away as she could from him. The mere feeling of being underneath someone, especially a human of all creatures, didn't quite sit well with her. If the others back in the empire heard she had become the slave of a human, she couldn't even imagine the look on their faces, especially her mother's.
