Frostflake (Sunset the Rainwing 13)

Wherever you fly, this isn't goodbye / My love will follow you, stay with you / Baby, you're never alone 
-lyr from Never Alone, Lady A and Jim Brickman
== Backstory ==
Frostflake was born to a family of the lowest-born Icewings three years before Queen Snowfall ascended the throne. For those three years, her family was happy, living together in their tiny hut. Frostflake adored her family, especially her older brother, Pinecone.
When the Icewing Plague struck, her father came down with it the worst and passed away just before the animus-touched earrings. Her mother and brother, while no longer sick, were severely weakened and died several weeks later when a simple (insert-dragon-version-of-the-flu) swept through the village. Devastated, Frostflake started keeping to herself, her neighbors coming around to bring her food and water and check on her. 
Finally, three years later, her closest neighbor forced her to get a job, saying that 'Life is no life at all if spent alone and in darkness.' Frostflake took this to heart and, while still not enthusiastic, took a job as a maid in an Icewing estate. Frostflake was quiet and shy, forever changed by the sudden deaths of her entire family. 
Ten years after she joined the estate staff, the noble living there passed away, and the staff were sent to other places. The head of household staff had been so impressed by Frostflake's quiet, obedient performance that she recommended her for the Icewing Palace. One month later, Frostflake was stepping into the massive, gleaming palace. 
While still very quiet, she taught herself to be more observant, and noticed one dragon in particular. A young male dragon, nervous and twitchy, with two older siblings who did nothing but push him around the palace and ridicule him. Because of her diligence to her work, she rose in ranks among the staff, all the while trying to get closer to the intriguing dragon. 
When she was eighteen (dragon) years old, two wonderful things happened: first, she got promoted to the Queen's personal staff, and second, she spoke to him. His name was Frigid. He was kind, and funny, and smart, and wanted more than anything to find a dragon to love and to get away from his siblings. For the first time in fifteen years, she felt truly alive. She applied herself to her new job even more, and became Queen Snowfall's friend and closest confidant. She spent more and more time with Frigid, until she was fully in love, deliriously happy. And then she noticed a connection. 
Queen Snowfall stopped to talk to Frigid whenever she saw him. He went out of his way to greet her, to encourage her, to even just give her a passing smile. Frostflake could feel her heart slowly breaking as she saw what was happening in front of her very eyes. Finally, she steeled herself and made a decision. 
He loves her, not me. Snowfall is your closest friend, and Frigid is next. They will be perfect together, you must admit. And anyway, you are a maid, and she is a queen. what ould he gain from marrying you? 
Every day she repeated this in her head, until it was pure instinct. And she made another decision. Instead of just letting this happen, she would encourage it, bring them together, never let the chasm in her heart show. Unfortunately, her heart was not the only obstacle: Frigid's older siblings, Peak and Quartz, were keeping him away from Snowfall, locking him in his room and hitting him if he tried to go to her. 
One night, Frostflake snuck into his room and got him out - almost. Quartz had come back early. Frostflake used her frostbreath and Quartz flew away screaming, never to be seen again. To her last day, she was haunted by the guilt of what she's done, even though no one blamed her once they heard the entire story. Before Peak could come and take back Frigid, Queen Snowfall announced that they were engaged to be married. 
Frostflake feigned sickness so she could stay in her room, sobbing softly to herself about what she had lost. During their wedding, 20-year-old Frostflake cried even more, disguising her grief as happiness. She was determined to be wonderfully, gloriously happy for her two best friends. 
The years passed quickly, for Snowfall and Frigid, anyway. To Frostflake, each day dragged on, each a bit shorter than the last, but always the deep sadness gripping her heart. Right after her wedding, Snowfall promoted Frostflake from a maid to a Queen's companion, giving the two more time together. Frostflake still loved her friend dearly, and had many wonderful times with her, but the lingering pain was never far away. 
She got to know Lady Lynx and Prince Winter, who had married and lived at the edge of the kingdom, running a - for lack of better words - hotel for humans. The pair visited often, and the five of them, Snowfall, Frigid, Lynx, Winter, and Frostflake, had hundreds of sweet, funny, memorable, wonderful instances. Only one grief stayed in the minds of the two couples - even after all these years, neither of them had dragonets. But then, finally, miraculously, Queen Snowfall and Frigid had two eggs, and Winter and Lynx, one. 
Snowfall and Frigid's hatched first, one into beautiful twin girls, the other into an already-inquisitive male. Snowfall named one of the girls Glacier, after her mother, and the other Fox. The boy was Iceberg. A month later, Winter and Lynx's egg hatched, but the tiny female inside was already dead. Frostflake celebrated with Snowfall and Frigid and grieved with Winter and Lynx, all the time hoping she would, somehow, find another dragon as amazing as Frigid to marry and have dragonets with. Somehow, somewhere deep within her, she knew it wouldn't happen. 
A year after the dragonets hatched, Peak burst into the throne room and rushed for Queen Snowfall, a spear in hand to kidnap back Frigid. No one ever knew why he had waited so long to 'liberate' his brother. The only dragon close enough to the queen to help was Frostflake. Not knowing what to do, she flung herself into Peak's path, steeling herself for what she must do. Reaching out, she sliced the traitorous dragons' throat, only to feel a sharp, cold pain. In his last breaths, Peak had thrust the spear deep into her chest, a fatal wound. Around her were her four most loved dragons in the world, who each rushed to her side, letting out cries of panic, fear, anger, and shock. 
"Frost," Snowfall whispered, tears dripping down her snout. "You are hero, my best friend, the best dragon I have ever known. You can't go." Frostflake smiled sadly up at her friend, knowing that, while she would stay if she could, if she had to die, it wouldn't be so bad, to escape the pain. 
"I... I love you." She wasn't even talking to Frigid. She was talking to all her friends: Snowfall, kind and snarky and sassy. Lynx, even more so. Winter, so cold on the outside but basically a big baby harbor seal on the inside. And, of course, Frigid. In that last moment, she realized that no, for just a second, she didn't love him. He was perfect for Snowfall, and she was perfect for him. In that last moment, she was content. Truly happy as she hadn't been in years. 
And then the world, and the dragons in it, were gone. And so was Frostflake.
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