Kishka
(#58921110)
Level 1 Spiral
Familiar
Blackwing Croaker
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Energy: 0/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Plague.
Female Spiral
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
4.17 m
Wingspan
2.67 m
Weight
83.99 kg
Genetics
Berry
Wasp
Wasp
Berry
Bee
Bee
Maize
Ghost
Ghost
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Spiral
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
5
AGI
9
DEF
5
QCK
8
INT
6
VIT
6
MND
6
Biography
Kishka Come-Early
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Notes Role: Unassigned Mate: None Lore: Ch. 1 - 4 by Minstri Additional: 
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Birth
There were problems with that nest. They all seemed a little off. The Broodwatcher kept close tabs on their progress, and Jejune was worried. Kishka was born too early, but even as a half-formed wyrmling she was Plague. She would survive. Jejune was in a flurry when one of the eggs hatched before time - it was too weak still and not yet ready for the world. Jack calmed her and promised he would come up with a solution. Of keen scientific bent, medical science in particular, Jack had an idea. With help from his mentor, who was also Jejune's adoptive father, Jack come up with a quick plan for an experimental "live birth" inspired partly by the unusual way in which his mate came into the world. Sovri and Jack fashioned an artificial womb from biological materials, which could be temporarily grafted onto a host - Jejune was happy to volunteer. Within a few hours of Kishka's early hatching, she was nestled safely in her mother's keeping. She was born on the day her siblings hatched in their nest.
Early Life
Kishka was shy and strongly attached to her mother. She did not speak as soon as other wyrmlings, but was healthy, hardy, and intelligent. She rarely played and fought with the other children of the clan, preferring instead to stalk the Keep around her mother's office. This meant that most of the dragons she interacted with were non-clan Fae from the colony that infested the Keep. She was keenly interested in her father's work, but rarely spent much time with him. She saw him most when he was making studies of her, checking on her health and development, but she liked that all right. She enjoyed listening to him talk and explain everything he was doing. He told her why she was special, and he had to check up on her but not other dragons. The work he was doing could even save the lives of other hatchlings... but only if she grew into a very strong dragon. Plague did not bother to save weakened hatchlings, but if he could prove she was just as strong and healthy - or even better than other dragons - they might accept his methods and be open to his advancements. She wanted to help him, and prove she was strong... but she was shy and often nervous around other dragons, which made that a little hard. She enjoyed listening, but rarely spoke, even to her father. It worried Jejune that all of this attention and Jack's study of her was bad for her. Kishka didn't know how to disagree with her mother and assert that she didn't mind - even enjoyed it. She didn't get to spend much time with her father otherwise. Her parents argued about it in ways they thought she wouldn't notice; she did. Kishka spent most of her time with her mother, so it seemed like she would take after her mother's work. Kishka didn't mind the record-keeping aspect, tracking individuals and tributes and accounts owed, but she did not have much interest in the subject. She did not come to be a fanatic, perhaps due to her isolation from her peers. She prayed to the Plaguebringer for strength (because she had to be strong for her father's work) and knew offerings were important, but she liked her father's work much more. It seemed more important to the Plaguebringer than collecting tribute. She was also not too interested in the political workings of the clan itself, which her mother also dealt with. It all seemed superficial and beyond her grasp. She did not like talking to other dragons. She wasn't good at it.
Misunderstood
One day, as she was nearing adulthood, though to her it still felt a very long way off, Jack said she did not have to come to him for examination anymore. It struck Kishka and left her heartbroken. She didn't think they'd finished their work (and she had some to think of it as 'their' work, even though she only contributed by showing up for exams and nodding along to her father's descriptions and explanations). Of course, he had only said she didn't have to, not that she couldn't. If she didn't have to but did anyway, then maybe everyone would finally understand that she wanted to. Maybe she could work with Jack in his lab. The idea made her a little nervous, which is why she had never pursued it before. A few days later, a day that she would usually go down to her father's lab, she started to go but Jejune called her back. She who insisted that Kishka did not have to do that anymore. Jejune wanted to teach her more about her own work, and to have Kishka trained as a priestess. She would learn from Siekte, and the two could go together for a while, but maybe when she was ready Kishka could start going on her own. Jejune was not trying to make her daughter do something she was not interested in. Just the opposite. Kishka had always spent her time, even much of her free time around Jejune's office, helping with work there, and learning much about the workings of the clan from the Fae. It appeared from the outside that this is what she was interested in. Kishka had never suggested otherwise. The young spiral balked and tried to insist on seeing her father. Her words did not even sound convincing to her own ear, and her mother could only assume she wanted to because it's what she had always done, not because she enjoyed it. Who ever would enjoy being prodded at and scrutinized like a specimen under glass? Kishka was probably just worried about trying new things, especially if she might have to do it on her own. She didn't know. She couldn't know. Kishka could not find the right words, and the words she could find always died in her throat, making that choking, silencing lump with their corpses. Jejune said she would have to do things on her own soon. She would be grown soon. She said she didn't have to see her father any more, but the way she kept insisting, Kishka understood that she meant she wasn't allowed to see her father any more. That wasn't really what her mother meant either, because Jejune didn't know. We'll go see Siekte together. She isn't as scary as she seems. But it wasn't about Siekte.
Flight
They went, but did not go far before Kishka bolted. She slipped quickly up into the rafters and down through hidden passages behind the walls and cracks between the stones of the old construction. All places where the Fae colony she'd grown up alongside kept themselves, narrow footholds that ensured their half-welcome infestation could never be uprooted, it was easy for Kishka to wriggle through them. Her friends took her in gladly, not knowing what was going on, but happy to have her company for a while. Kishka hid from her mother. She thought about the way her father talked. Start with what you know. She liked his way of thinking and breaking down problems.
If I go back now, I'll have to stay with her. I'll never be able to make her understand, and she will convince me to stay. Her words are so much stronger than mine. Kishka felt broken. She knew her mother loved her, and tried to listen to her, but she could never get her thoughts out right. She then heard that her father was looking for her. Jack did not crawl through the rafters or stalk the corridors gently calling her name. He went to the Fae and asked after her. Jejune thought Jack didn't love their daughter, or that he loved her wrong, or that he didn't show it right. Because she was different, or she was just an experiment to him. He was looking for her though, and he knew how to find her. The fae told him where she was, but he didn't come and fetch her. He didn't tell Jejune either, because she was sure her mother would have climbed into the wall after her. She asked for a few pages of unused paper and wrote something for him. It was not a letter or a note, she was not much better at writing in the way as she was talking. That wasn't the kind of thing she wanted to say, anyway. Instead she wrote it like the documents he made when he started a new test or experiment. Carefully dated, with a specific, detailed plan - how to go about it and what sort of data was being looked at. Careful predictions and hypothesis laid out. Possible biases and other pit-falls that could skew data or affect the test. Herself as the primary subject. Her plan - to leave early. To prove her strength. To quantify it. She passed it on to her friends to deliver it - addressed formally to "Jack" as head researcher, then slipped out through the twisting passages and into the Scarred Wasteland. She had arrived a little early. So she left a little early too.
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