Pierce threw Sloane's newborn into lava, carved out her dragon heart-core, and left her to die on the storm altar. Reborn seven years earlier, Sloane watches him choose her sister, convinced Mira will bear the golden heir Sloane never could. She lets him walk into his own ruin and binds herself to Corvin, a cursed raven everyone mocks. Then Mira's golden egg hatches a black serpent, while Sloane's single egg reveals twins: a Supreme Gold Dragon and a Blackwing royal. Pierce was only a serpent in stolen scales, and the raven he despised was the true Dragon King.