Hystephise

Background

As the Beastclans grew, it was not unheard of for stray dragon eggs to disappear. The rich could afford to send mercenaries out to find the culprits, but the poor who scraped by along the edge of the Carrion Canyon had to either find them on their own or accept the fate that had befallen their progeny. Few of these eggs would ever hatch and the ones who did were often trained and turned against their own kind.
Hystephise was one of the lucky ones.
Having been stolen by a mixed band of harpy and dragon pirates as an egg, she was raised in a gray area between the warring factions. Even when the fighting began to slow, they traced the canyons in a small battle-airship, robbing the travelers braving the wastes. Both dragon and beast were made their enemies. It wasn't long before those enemies began to add up.
They never even knew that they were being tracked. As they pulled their ship into the canyons they called their base, they were ambushed. Out manned and outgunned, the crew fell. Badly wounded, Hystephise and a few of her harpy crew mates drug themselves into the cave system in the cliff side. Cursing the gods and rotten luck and their own mistakes, it was there that they lay down their weapons for the last time together.
Time wore down the entry to the cave, collapsing the great teeth that once held open the mouth of the beast. Deep within the belly, the bones of the fallen ship mates would have been undisturbed for millennia had it not been for a group of assassins in need of a place to hide their half-dead prey.
Ismien's fear and anger was enough combined with their closeness to what was once the heart of the beast to bring flesh and blood to her long picked clean bones. Never again has he been able to breathe life into someone of her state.
But even at his strongest, his powers do not affect those of beast blood.
Without her crew, Hystephise has adopted the dragons who found themselves in the clan as her new family.

Even though it was Ismein that had the most literal connection to the caves, she was the one who was struck the worst by the move. She was forced to say goodbye to her crewmates once again and was inconsolable for weeks after they arrived in Wind territory. The cracked harpy mask she carried with her was all that she had left of her past life. The constant presence of harpies in and around their new home did nothing to help, only reopening old wounds.
More than once she's been caught crooning "I love you" in Harpy to the old mask.
No one ever mentions it.