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nanamikiryuu I'm not sure who to ping but I'm awfully sorry for how late this is! I've been doing some things and trying to clear out a space in my lair and think about her story inbetween, and I still can't take her in right now but since I think the due date is approaching,,, I hope this is good enough and that it's okay with you to hold her for a little while longer!! (It's also very late so @ anyone feel free to point out mistakes.)
For her: Sibyl (name may change, especially to a variant in spelling!)
Sibyl was born a healthy and cute little girl: sleepy, but as active as any other newborn hatchling. And yet, her appearance shocked many of those who had not yet heard about the effects that Sornieth's strengthening elemental powers were having on recently born hatchlings. She had what had been dubbed as the "multi-gaze" mutation; it was not dangerous, the local doctors and healers reassured her parents, just perhaps a bit inconvenient in daily life. That turned out to be an understatement.
In her first weeks of life, Sibyl went from being a happy hatchling to having severe tantrums over doing mundane things and frequently waking everyone up with what seemed like constant night terrors. Some of the lair's other residents sneered at this unruly and weird hatchling, but once she started to tell her parents about her nightmares - her visions of war, death, plague and violence - they saw that she was being haunted by something more than just a bad temper and a wild imagination. Afraid that it might have something to do with her mutation and the supposed magical connection, they contacted a mage to study their daughter's malady.
As expected, the mage believed her nightmares to originate from her strong connection to her flight and, by extension, the Tidelord himself - the deity of prophecies. Though they had no way to be certain, the mage proposed that her visions were of all the things that could go wrong. And that belief was strengthened when she one night predicted a spreading illness resulting in death, which came true when an epidemic spread in a neighbouring area not long after and claimed a handful of lives.
Since her visions didn't appear to be clear enough to aid in preventing the events they described, and because they were causing Sibyl stress great enough to kill such a young thing, her parents ended up asking the mage to make her visions stop by any means possible. The mage warned them that they would have to seal all of her magical capabilities away, essentially ridding her of her grand potential, but they kept their stand on the matter. They only wanted what was best for their child, and right then it was in their best interest to ensure she would stay healthy.
And so the mage took Sibyl aside and prepared the ritual. They casted a strong binding spell on the oblivious girl by carefully drawing enchanted runic symbols on the air over her body: on her limbs, her head, her side and her tail. All the while they asked her to keep her usually independently blinking extra eyes closed, and the runes appeared over the eyelids as well, almost as if they were being painted over.
The ritual was painless, and though the mage felt exhausted by the end of it, Sibyl felt oddly light. They told her that the runes would extend with her body as she grew to continue to keep her powers sealed, and then let her out of the room to reunite with her parents. They wanted to thank the mage a thousand times, but they requested to rather be left alone and given the privacy to rest and recharge, and not be bothered for a while unless Sibyl were found to have clear signs of the ritual backfiring.
However, there were no ill effects, and instead she got to sleep untroubled for the first time in weeks. And her tantrums, caused by her fear of doing things that would result in catastrophies as in her nightmares, also subsided within a month. She found it easier to keep her useless and honestly rather unwanted eyes closed most of the time after the ritual, but since maturing and coming of age - still without powers but with an interest in them - she has been wondering if she could eventually find a way around the seal and learn to control her powers herself.
