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Birthed in the Lightning realm, Bitbyte had a Light father who was formerly an Imperial and an Ice Nocturne mother. Both parents frequently changed their genes and wore apparel from contradicting flights. This produced so much confusion for the little one that she left as soon as possible. Despite her confusing upbringing, she remains loyal to the Stormcaller and the Lightning flight, and travels on diplomatic missions to her homeland every so often. Aoide finds her assistance invaluable when the scouting groups encounter golems or mechanical devices.

Outside of her diplomatic and electrical work, her hobbies include painting, gardening, and reading and writing reflective poetry. Things that do not involve electricity at all. She leaves that to Clawrice, who wishes she were just like Bitbyte, except crazy about mechanics.

She also helps Quartz out in the kitchen sometimes, as the healer-turned-cook has little experience with the newfangled mechanical devices being imported from the Lightning Flight.



Perpetual lightning flickered across the sky in the Shifting Expanse, where a lone Spiral deftly wove her way through power terminals and lightning rods. She had grown up here, and as short and confusing as her life had been in this land, she still felt perpetually bound to it and to the Stormcatcher.

Sometimes, she would give anything to be literally anything else.

All of her favorite things in life had nothing to do with electricity. She gazed at the desert wastelands and wondered how she could have been born here. Here, in this anachronistic land of wasteland cowboys and robotic suits. SHE preferred Romantic poetry. Reflective, calming, peaceful, and nature-loving. Seeking to rise above the common masses of Dragonkind. Where was that in a land of shifty scavengers and gears and metal?

A particularly wide bolt caught her attention. It lasted a good second and a half, during which she could see, transfixed for an instant in the beam, the insectile limbs and joints of a Spirit of Lightning. One of the rarest of the Stormcaller’s minions. As the flash dissipated, shockwaves rolled off the insect’s wings as it gathered the power into itself.

With a mighty downward thrust and a thunderous CRACK, it bolted upward into the clouds and disappeared.

She stared, as paralyzed as the insect had been a moment before. This, then, WAS the goal of the Lightning flight. To gather natural forces into oneself in an attempt to rise above. How was that any different than her Romantic Nature poets she devoured so hungrily?

She landed near the base of a lightning rod and curled into a tiny, infantile knot. She thanked the Stormcaller for the vision he had granted. Whether he intended it that way or not, she now had the inner strength to serve him wholeheartedly, as she served her new Water clan and represented both them and the Lightning flight.

Another bolt struck the top of the tower. Fearlessly, she reached out a claw and allowed the energy to pour into her body. Such a thing was dangerous to attempt, even for a Ridgeback, which designed to absorb and release such massive energy. But she felt the Stormcaller’s blessing descend on her through the power surge, and like the Spirit she had seen a moment before, she gathered her strength and thrust her wings downward, with as mighty a thrust as she could manage.

The volume of sound she produced nearly deafened her, and immediately she felt herself hurled upward at an insane speed. When her inertia finally slowed, she found herself high above the clouds. From this vantage point, she could see the Sea of the Thousand Currents sparkling in the distance, with the shadows of the Tangled Wood lying between it and the mighty Behemoth. She sucked in her breath at the beauty of the scene.

A fizzing noise nearby made her turn her head. The Spirit of Lightning was near her. It saluted with a merry sizzle, and disappeared.

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Purveyor of ingredients and appliances for cooking...
Water Gumbo!
Roux:

Cornbread:

Crawdad:

Corn:

Sweet Potato:

Chicken:

Trinity:

Okra:

Tabasco:

Shrimp:

Gumbo:

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