The story isn't as fresh as it could be, but it's moving along at a quick enough pace to keep me engaged. Just a few technical suggestions.

Italics rather than bold font works better. It adds more emphasis to the actual speech, instead of just a visual image.

Semi-colons replace periods, not commas. Using them in places such as "To protect them; we have to reserve them," is not appropriate. If you replaced the semi-colon with a period, it would become, "To protect them. We have to reserve them." Try using a comma instead.

And maybe you could spell check...?

But your imagery is gorgeous. There's a beautiful painting you construct with words. Although, (and don't take this personally,) Dark Ace origin stories need abrupt twists along the line to keep them original, you have a great foundation.