||Hayden|| Her eyes sparkled as she saw thousands of lanterns in the sky. My heart trembled a little before I reached her and asked her if she would be mine forever, and my naïve little wife agreed! I couldn’t bear the distance between us. So, I pulled her into a hug. Then I slowly touched her soft petals with mine. My dragon instinct asked me to put my palm on her pendant. A sudden bright green light flashed. With that, I felt the change in me. My bones reshaped, and slowly the pain ended. I shifted back to my human form. My eyes fell on her instantly as I discovered a dragon mark around her neck. I was bewildered by the sudden change of events. Moreover, the curse was suddenly lifted from me, which reminded me of only one thing we all had learned from our forefathers, “the dragon mark