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"I always wanted to know how to kill a king"

Her parents were beautiful, nearly everyone in the lair was. She supposed she may have been as well, but she was not enough, nor were her siblings. All of them were sold, chosen by other lairs who knew not of the cruelty of the hell they came from. Or maybe they did know, and wished to take them either for their own trophies or for some other reason. Day in and Day out, she watched the young hatchlings being sold and taken away. At least, those that came close to matching the master’s standards. Those that did not, on the other hand….She shuddered at the thought. Would she, too be lead to the slab? Would she be murdered by the assassin, as he was called? Or what if the Master decided that, because of her golden scales, she would be taken to the nests with whomever he selected for her? To him, dragons were nothing but things. It was drilled into them, reinforced by his cruel ways. She would escape this icy prison, even if it killed her.

Her chance came much sooner than she expected, and she took it without hesitation. She didn’t care which direction she went, just that she went somewhere, anywhere but where she was. It was a leap of faith, she knew. As she took that leap his assassins followed her, but she knew not whether they intended to kill her, or just drag her back. It took several nerve wracking days to make her way from her clan, to the edge of the nearest clan’s territory. She was petrified when she was greeted by three armored nocturnes. What would they do to her? What would the assassins do to them?

She never found out what happened. All she knew was that she stayed with the clan she had stumbled upon, never to return to the Master or the frozen tundra he inhabited.

Though she never goes back to the Southern Icefield, Desert enjoys traveling in the company of whichever dragon happens to be leaving the lair. She also loves adorning herself with whatever pretty bobbles and bangles she can find. She was hesitant to enter the Coliseum, however. Though once there she found herself as the team's healer, hoping that maybe she could do more good than harm that way.

Despite her travels, and her prowess in the Coliseum, Desert remains shy and timid around most dragons, generally warming up to them sometime during their travels.