Blackberry

Blackberry is the clan's resident inventor. Her new procedures of weight measurement and tissue analysis may help to make the reduction of simple organic materials for alchemy faster and more predictable. She also makes a killer smoothie. Her familiar luckily never needs fed because she wouldn't remember it!

A day staying inside the lair when most of the clan was out frolicking in the early spring rains led to Krait and Blackberry's decision to nest together. When he left for the Gladekeeper's service, Blackberry was proud of him, but also mournful.

Her next "project" is as the Keeper of the Atrix. She has one of the strongest minds in the clan, so it's her job to get Alai to talk to her and tell her Shadow Flight's plans. Hence the blindfold. She has recently developed a new trinket: an hourglass filled with crystalline sand from the depths of the Leviathan Trench and enchanted by mages who learned from the Behemoth itself. This device can speed or slow how a creature perceives time... which is useful in interrogation.


Why did you do it?
Mother told me to.
A dragon?
The Shadowbinder, duh.
But why?
How should I know?
You can't expect me to believe you'd spend so much time on something and not know why you're doing it.
You don't know much about Shadow, do you? You'd be able to tell me yourself, if you just listened.
I'm not going to fall for your tricks.
Of course not, you're far too smart.
Smart enough to find you.
Smart enough to know you're never going to make any progress like this. It's not a trick, but I do need to show you something.
You can just tell me.
No, I can't.
...How long is this going to take?
For you, or for me? Yes, I know you're using temporal magic. I think we have plenty of time...


I think I do understand now.
How ironic.
I can't imagine the things you've seen.
I think you have more imagination than you realize. You're an inventor, after all.
So are you.
I'd love to show you my work sometime. More of it, I mean.
That can't happen.
Why not?
You know why not.
And yet, here you are again.
We should have muzzled you, shouldn't we?
Perhaps.