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Crystalynne

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Level 1 Snapper
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This dragon’s natural inborn element is Ice.
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Biography

Pushing, seething, bubbling and reaching- the shore lapped at Crystalynne’s feet. She watched as the tide rushed in, a pale blanket reflecting the morning sun, edged with lacy foam. She watched as it pooled around her legs and bubbles gave up on the sand. She watched as the waters pulled away from her, curling back in on themselves. Only to return to her a moment later.

Crystalynne was watching all of this, but could not feel it. The cold shock of the waters no longer bothered her- she hardly noticed. Where the tumbling of waves once brought excitement, now they brought to her nothing but broken shell fragments and loose sand.

What would she want the waves to bring to her? To bring back to her?

It would be my memory.

To have endured hardship and survived is an honor. A triumph. To face great pain, even if you became nothing but your grief, is a tragedy. A misfortune. But to experience loss, and loose the memory of it was counted as nothing.

How can you mourn, strangers told her, when you cannot remember what you’ve lost?
If it had been the ruining of her home, her mate, her friends, there would be sympathy. Rather, she was known to others only as the one ‘without’. Without anything to offer. Without purpose or past. It seemed a vicious hypocrisy. The greater the damage, the more they cared- until the loss was everything.

So she created a purpose for herself. Using the only thing that felt familiar to her, Crystalynne decided to pursue it, that she may become known to them as useful. She began to
polish gemstones.

There were hundreds of them. Nestled among the cliffs, hidden in the dirt, peeking out from stones. Winking slices of pink, blue, and gold. She wrestled these gems from their grey, sedentary beds, and piled them into her mesh bag. At the edge of the ocean she hooked the bag around a cluster of black rocks. After a few days, she would return, after the violent motions of the sea have smoothed her stones into proper gems.

Some of these she turned into necklaces or tokens for good fortune. She got used to walking. Searching for any stray dragon to offer her wares. She had no use for money but it gave her something to do. An easy, repetitive motion to fill her days and keep her mind away from the empty corners of itself.

The days passed on. The tide came in, the tide went out- the tide battered her gemstones smooth.
And still, her memories did not return.

The realization took a while to arrive, but when it did, it felt sudden- she didn’t need to be useful. Her purpose was never going to be found in the utility she offered others. This understanding was double sided, however, as Crystalynne realized that she had no desire to create a new purpose. Whatever loomed behind her was so impossibly, achingly vast, that it overshadowed her still. She was growing comfortable in its shadow. The cold was finding root among her bones.

This, at least, freed her from the trouble of selling her works. Now, everything she created belonged to her. If she could not possess memories, she would possess every other beautiful thing instead.

The largest gemstones she used as pendants. Within their fractals and glimmer, she saw past the distorted mirror image of herself and envisioned what she had been before. The stones found their homes in metal settings and between the links of chains. Shining blue against her hide and catching stray rays of sunlight. With each new addition she became more beautiful. The soft, lilting sound of her necklaces clinking against each other became her favorite soothing melody; one that followed ahead of her, and behind.

Lore by Silverwis

Crystalynne
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