Sugar

Letter of warning for Sugar from Dawnbreak the Lightning construct dismantler.


Never have I met such a deceptively sweet dragon as this bothersome Skydancer. Honestly, either she gave herself the name 'Sugar' as a way to try to fool people into thinking her harmless and letting their guard down, or else her parents gave her the title in hope and turned out to be completely off the mark about what kind of dragon their daughter would turn out to be.

She came to our clan saying that she had heard we had problems with Lightning-corrupted machines attacking from time to time, which is true, and asked if she might possibly be allowed to watch us fend off an attack and to study the wreckage that's left afterwards. I wasn't sure she understood what a dangerous thing she was asking, since even the ruined and warped scraps of metal left from a destroyed machine can still carry enough trace magic to sometimes try reanimating, but she swore up and down that she would be able to handle herself.

I don't have the patience for babysitting like this, but she said that she worried other clans around the world might be having similar problems and she wanted to learn more about the things so she could spread the word to others about how to defend themselves. I couldn't in good conscience argue against that. I let her come along for one mission- if she promised to stay back and out of danger- and let her have the still-enchanted scraps to study instead of completely cleaning the bad magic from them like I normally do.

She hung around for a few days, spending all her time examining the wrecks and taking lots of notes like you'd expect, but something felt… off about the way she behaved. She was jumpy, twitchy, like she was trying to hide something. I kept an eye on her just in case. And wouldn't you know it, instead of turning the contaminated mechanical bits over to me to be destroyed at the end of the week like she was supposed to, we caught her trying to sneak away with them! The bits we took back from here were even partly rebuilt!

Once she was busted she started making excuses- that she didn't mean any harm, she just wanted to learn how to build things that could act on their own like these corrupt things had because she thought they could be useful. I don't care much whether she was telling the truth this second time or not. You lie once around dangerous dark magic that tries to kill people, you've lied one too many times already, and I don't want to hear any more. I don't think she even said the word 'sorry' once. Seemed too excited about whatever she'd learned and how she could put it to use to even care what she'd done to get it.

We kicked her out- WITHOUT the scraps or her notes, lot of good that probably does because she's likely clever enough to remember what her notes said anyway- and if we ever see her around here again she'll get a rougher treatment the second time.

Goodness help whoever she ends up with next.