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Helevali is a scholar on the subject of plants and gardening, and, since acquiring her enchanted spectacles so she can once more see something besides blur, can once more be found out and about collecting specimens. She has a particular interest in the useful properties of the capsaicin in chili peppers - in medicine, that is, although their uses in cooking serve as a very nice bonus. Her other, newer favored area of study is much more personal, and has to do with eyesight....

As Helevali also has a personal interest in books being more accessible, she is a founding member of the Read Books Club. (That is 'read, pronounced like red', a deliberately confusing choice.) This group of dragons devote time every week to reading books aloud to be magically recorded, and added to the lair's libraries as audiobooks, as well as contributing to the creation and availability of magical lenses that will read aloud any text they scan. These lenses are nowhere near supplanting a well-read recording by an actual dragon; the lenses either tend to read things out rather blandly, or occasionally develop a personality that is one-note and then read everything in that one tone, whatever it is - Dreary, Cranky, Bored, Smug, etc. But, they are extremely useful nonetheless.

Loves - Reading, plants, autumnal colors, capsaicin. (Yes, that was sort of like saying 'plants' two more times.)

Hates - Authors and publishers who get cranky about audiobooks being made of their books, while showing no intention of providing any themselves.

The animated broom she found abandoned, untethered and befriended, she named Swoosh. Swoosh has a very important job! (Well, SOMEONE has to sweep up the leaves Aspen leaves everywhere, and it keeps the broom from getting bored and looking for other things to sweep. Much like some cats, Swoosh seems to disapprove of things sitting atop other things, such as papers left unattended on a desk, or fragile knickknacks on a shelf....)

(1 of 3, 2 unexalted, of these colors, as of hatchdate.)

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