“Understand this – I still have my free will. I’m allowed to go do… whatever it is that I want to.” Kalysto poked at the mark again. “This doesn’t prevent me from that. But if another dragon came along one day and said, ‘Oh wow, that Blood Elf looks powerful, I think I will claim it for my own’, they can’t.”

He frowned. “It sounds bad, doesn’t it. But it’s not. It’s like a Mark of Protection. Seferia has marked me as her property, in a way. Think of it as a loyalty mark. Is it making more sense yet?”