19. Who am I to you?

The white dragon reached the entrance of the Ice Castle of Ayruzglow kingdom with Nora. Rapidly, they got to the east wing, Dev landed Nora carefully; he then changed his appearance from dragon to a wizard.
The enormous white dragon shrank its initial size of twenty-three feet height to six feet. He shook his shoulders when a pair of large white wings emerged from his spines. The white outfit matched his charm perfectly to grab the attention of any female.
Dev gently took Nora in his arms to help her reach her room located in the east wing. The maid female dragons in the Ice Castle of Ayruzglow Kingdom drooled over his arrival with Nora on the east wing.
Some of the female dragons were screamed in excitement and almost went to faint on viewing his manly physic which was tracing behind his white robe and the way he carried Nora in his arms were awesome.
Nora wrapped her hands around his neck for support and she was enjoying being carried by Crown Prince of Ayruzglow by admiring his look with slightly opened eyes.
The view of Dev’s manly physic astounded her and Nora could hardly breathe realizing the fact that she was in his arms.
He has pair of icy-blue iris, an oval face, a sharp nose, and dazzling silver hair that charms everyone including Nora who was long-waiting for him to respond and accept her to be his mate.
The ears Nora turned red in blushing to hear all the talking of other female dragons towards her room.
One female exclaimed, “My hero has arrived”
“Oh…Look my prince-charming is carrying our leader in his arms.”
“Lovely….She must be lucky to be in his arms.”
“I want to die…I want to be born as Nora…So I can be in his arms.”
“I want to be born as air. So I can grace him, hoo.”
“No one is equal to our leader. Only she deserves to be around him.”
“She will be our future queen of our crown prince.”
“She is the only female in his armed force.”
Dev has no ears to listen to those words, his mind engaged with the thoughts that his friend Ivan had gone alone to take revenge for Nora. So he hurried to the room of Nora and placed her in her bed gently and asked Nora’s assistance, Indigo to treat her wounds.
Dev with no other thoughts turned to leave her room, Nora grabbed his hands and said, “Don’t leave me. Be my side.”
Dev replied with loosening her hand from his, “Your brother is alone there. He needs my help.”
Nora answered with a simper, “He is a vicious beast. He can handle it alone. It’s me who wants your help and company.”
Dev replied with a much cooler mind, “Possibly, but anger makes even the wise, a fool. He is senseless when triggered in anger.”
Nora asked with cry baby eyes, “Dev! Is your friend is more important than me?”
Dev countered while standing away from her, “Of course, He is more important to me than anyone. He is my dearest friend and also my general.”
The disappointed Nora asked him with furrowed eyebrows, “Then who am I to you?”
Dev answered in quick and careful words, “You are more than that”. Nora blushed on hearing his words and felt her wounds and blood were no waste to receive his embrace and loving words from his mouth.
Dev raised his eyes from Nora and instructed her maid assistant, “Treat her wounds with leaves of yarrow. Also, make a soup to soothe her pain. Prepare one more for her brother.”
Dev smiled at Nora and took his white dragon form to fly to join the battle with his friend, Ivan Shirk.
Indigo, the maid assistant rushed to shut the door after Dev left. She approached Nora with sharp eyes and a curious face. She sat on the corner of the bed Nora.
Nora was well aware of the curious face, “What is it, Indy?”
Indigo shared the same curious face again with her. On observing, Nora spoke, “I know, what you want to know?”
“My lady, tell me how are you?” Indigo asked her while holding Nora’s hands.
“I am... (Nora moved her hand towards her chest) I am in heartache,” Nora replied with a deep sigh.
Indigo was shocked to hear her lady’s physical condition and she stood up saying, “What? Heartache! I will bring the royal healers here to treat you.”
Nora grabbed her wrists, “Wait, Indy. It’s not aching physically. It’s... It’s...”
“My lady, you are confusing me. Let us consult the royal healer about your condition. Allow me to bring them,” Indigo spoke with quick words.
Nora placed her right arm beneath her head, fixed her gaze on the ceiling of her room and replied with a deep breath, “My heart cannot be healed by other healers in the kingdom”.
Indigo looked at the weird reaction of Nora, “Huh, My lady, your face doesn’t reflect the pain of your heartache. If the healers in this kingdom cannot cure you, then who could it be?”
Nora told with a little smile, “Tell me, who is the master of healing in our kingdom?”
Indigo placed her forefinger on her chin, “Master of healing in our kingdom is (she tilted her head to the right to think) it’s our crown prince. He told me to treat your external wounds. My lady, does he know about your heartache?”
“It would be nice if he is aware of my heartache. He has to take care of his kingdom, take care of his subjects, hunting harmful beasts and rejecting neighbouring kingdom’s marriage proposals,” Nora marked his difficulty in positioning as Crown Prince of the mighty Ayruzglow kingdom.
Indigo sat on the icy crystalline floor, leaning against the corner of Nora’s bed, “He turned down all the marriage proposals from other kingdoms. The Pahrolymire kingdom has been approaching our queen for collaboration even after our crown prince precluded their proposal twice.”
Nora sneered like a hare-brained, “He was known for his aura, his manliness and his daring in taking the enemies on his battlefields. He is famous across the lands and many kings wanted to marry their daughters to him to make him their son-in-law.”
Indigo cupped her face in her palms and told to Nora, “He is cool in his rejections of many marriage proposals over centuries. All the young females would exhale a sigh of disappointment for not being his chosen mate. He doesn’t like to linger around any female even in his drunken state. My lady, you are the only female in his army and around him too.”
Nora blushed to turn her ears reddish, “I am with him for centuries, yet he turned deaf ears to me. My heartache can be cured only by him. It seems I still have to wait to grab his attention.”