Chapter 15 - THE DAWN OF A NEW DYNASTY
Three months after the Newport Accord, the world had fundamentally changed.
The Blackwood dynasty no longer hid behind closed doors, ancient myths, and locked estate walls. On a bright, crisp autumn morning, the front gates of the Newport palace stood wide open to the public for the first time in four centuries.
Thousands of visitors, scientists, historians, and dignitaries gathered across the sunlit lawns. Above them, silver-scaled dragons soared through the clear blue sky, dipping their wings in peaceful salute to the crowds below.
Inside the Grand Hall of Embers, a grand celebration was underway.
King Adrian stood beside the central dais, raising a crystal goblet toward the dignitaries. "To a future built not on the fear of our past, but on the strength of our unity," he announced, his voice ringing with pride.
The hall erupted in cheers.
Olivia stood near the balcony doors, watching the sunlight glint off the polished marble floor. Vesper rested comfortably on her shoulder, humming a quiet, rhythmic tune of contentment.
We have arrived, the dragon whispered gently in her mind.
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Olivia smiled, looking out past the gardens toward the endless horizon where the ocean met the sky. She had inherited a name built on shadows, but she had forged a destiny built on light.
The dynasty had survived. And under her hand, it would endure forever.
