66. The Pretis palace

[Diana’s POV]

“It eats flames?” I asked.

Miya nodded.

“But not just any flames. It’s young, so we must provide it with the most nutritious and sweet flames,” she said.

“Flames are sweet? Flames have taste?”

“Not for us, but for them,” Miya said.

“So? Where can we find this sweet flame?” I asked.

“Flowers,” Miya said.

“Flowers? You mean nectar?” I asked.

“No. The flames you get when you burn a flower.”

“Oh.” I tensed my brows slightly. “What a sweet way of making sweet flames. Burn the flower. Makes complete sense to me. But what flower is the most nutritious?”

“That’s the problem here. You see phoenix as babies are very delicate and picky eaters. Every individual has their own taste, so we need to experiment and see what suits its taste. My mother’s phoenix loves eating flames of burning camellias, especially red camellias, which are rare to find.”

“How did she find out what her phoenix likes?”

Miya shrugged, lifting her hands.

“By feeding her flames of over a hundred ty