Adust

Adust joined the clan as a young hatchling and was very welcome by his clan-mates. The second he saw young Fae Wanda, who had joined the clan around the same time he did, he in love with her. He loved the red eyes which stood out from her green body, the gems that sparkled in the sun and the sound of her laughter. Wanda fell in love with him too, with the electric marks all over his body, his long nose on which she could sit and look into his eyes and the way he could make her laugh, even on bad days. They soon became mates and had many children, which they all loved dearly.

But Wanda was unhappy, because none of their children looked like her beloved mate, none had the
shimmering body she loved so much or the pointy nose of a Ridgeback she found so beautiful.

Adust told her that he didn't care, that he loved all their children, regardless of how they looked. But her sorrow grew with every day. Adust couldn't stand to see his beloved one in this state anymore, so he asked the first of his clan, the witch Elea for help.

Elea said she could help make Wanda body shine like Adusts, but it wouldn't be easy nor cheap. But if he wanted to increase the chance that their progeny were Ridgebacks they would have to change her into another species entirely, a Pearlcatcher perhaps, or a Spiral, and that was something that could only be done with sorcery, not with witchcraft.

They agreed to the terms she gave them and soon after Wandas body sparkled in the sun just like Adust's did. They then began to search for someone who could change her form as well. Luckily for them, there was also a sorceress in their clan, Leela.

So they went to the sorceress and asked her for help. But Leela was reluctantly about changing Wanda's form, as she did not like to interfere with the work of the gods, unlike those who practice witchcraft. Wanda and her mate begged her and eventually, she gave in.

The procedure took almost three days and nobody, not even Adust, was allowed to see her. But after those three days Adust and Wanda, now a Spiral, reunited. Never before had Adust seen his beloved mate so happy, so filled with joy. She curled around his neck, as she was now to big to sit on his nose and he looked deep into her red, shimmering eyes he fell in love with so long ago and she told him that the only day that would ever surpass this one was the day she had met him.