Zeke Draker was the first of House Draker to fail his Awakening. In a family of dragon slayers, where power is everything and weakness is a sin, failure meant one thing: exile.
He was cast out like garbage.
Forced to survive in a brutal world with nothing but scraps and spite, Zeke clawed his way up from disgrace. He became the Phantom of the North, a legend feared by enemies and whispered about by allies. No one remembered the boy who failed his Awakening. Everyone knew the man who killed dragons.
Then he was sent to stop the emperor from obtaining an ancient relic. The mission was a trap. Imperial forces hunted him down like a dog. Zeke died alone, betrayed, with his revenge unfinished.
But fate had other plans.
Zeke opens his eyes as a 12-year-old boy, back in the Cradle, House Draker’s elite training ground. The place where he first failed. The place where they threw him away.
His body is weak again. His peers mock him again. His family looks down on him again.
But Zeke remembers everything. Every fight. Every dragon he killed. Every betrayal that led to his death.
This time, the failed boy will not fail. This time, the dragon slayer returns to the cradle, and the dragons will learn to fear his name all over again.
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