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[b][color=#006400]Location:[/color][/b] Driving —> Nero’s House – Chicago, IL
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	I reach over and take Nero’s hand. I kiss the back of it, smiling. [color=#006400]”You aren’t being dense.”[/color] I take the turn smoothly and continue to talk while I can. [color=#006400]”We [i]were[/i] happy, and then we weren’t. The pressures put on us by our families and the fact that we never had a chance to love another contributed to us breaking off the engagement. Cassi had her own reasons, but I can’t tell you those. We were betrothed at birth. I am several years older than Cassiopeia, but our fates were sealed when her prophecy was read — at least according to our families. If Cassiopeia and I had married and bore children, a new species would have been created essentially. Her rare magic, which not even her ancestors possess, and my ability to shift partially or fully and to be able to shift into a dragon. My ancestors each have a human form and a secondary form. Mine is a dragon, which was a rarity, and now, like Cassi, I am the last of my kind. There are shapeshifters, yes, but they are of a lesser line. They are born in one form and shed their skin to possess another. I don’t shed my skin; I simply shift. And my dragon form possesses their own magic and abilities. So, I have three times the amount of power. Our families coveted what Cassi and I had and wanted to create something new. So, you see, we were in love, but we weren’t our own selves. We were little more than chattel being pushed this way and that to serve a greater purpose.”[/color] I parked the car behind the moving truck that was already there and shut the car off. I looked at Nero. [color=#006400]”Neither one of us wanted to be told what to do, but neither of us thought dismantling our union would tear so many apart.”[/color]