He laughed softy and nodded, not at all arguing with the man. He wasn't wrong and he wasn't going to do him the dishonor of pretending that he was.
"My bonds. One of the more extreme changes that can happen is that you can become the animal that you wear the traits for. It just seems to have happened today."
But he didn't regret his bonds. Not even for a second. This was one side effect of having them but he wouldn't want to lose them for anything. Though the man's question wasn't unexpected. He could refuse to answer it but he decided not to.
"I do not have a kind history with what I am. My father slept with other woman than his wife and my mother was one of those women. The Empress would be angry if she found out so my mother had to hide me." Slowly, he loosened his robes a bit to reveal a patch of hideous scarring on his chest.
"I couldn't control my changes when I was a child. So my mother would cut my horns and scale off. After awhile I tried to do everything I could to make her smile so I would cut them off myself. I wasn't old enough to have cultivated enough energy to heal them properly so I wear these scars as a result. But being a dragon reminds me of the terrible man my father was and the pains it caused my mother."
cw: child abuse and self-harm
"My bonds. One of the more extreme changes that can happen is that you can become the animal that you wear the traits for. It just seems to have happened today."
But he didn't regret his bonds. Not even for a second. This was one side effect of having them but he wouldn't want to lose them for anything. Though the man's question wasn't unexpected. He could refuse to answer it but he decided not to.
"I do not have a kind history with what I am. My father slept with other woman than his wife and my mother was one of those women. The Empress would be angry if she found out so my mother had to hide me." Slowly, he loosened his robes a bit to reveal a patch of hideous scarring on his chest.
"I couldn't control my changes when I was a child. So my mother would cut my horns and scale off. After awhile I tried to do everything I could to make her smile so I would cut them off myself. I wasn't old enough to have cultivated enough energy to heal them properly so I wear these scars as a result. But being a dragon reminds me of the terrible man my father was and the pains it caused my mother."