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Okay, I'll kick things off then. If anyone has better title suggestions, I'm all for it))
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Having held dominance over the lands for so long, the dragons are just now becoming aware of the threat in their homelands. The beastclans have long been a nuisance, creatures to be fought, and only sometimes befriended. Their recent rally into an organized fighting force is still being realized, and for some dragons, the knowledge of that threat has come too late...
Zayseshi was used to being separated from the others. She knew the wastes and what lurked there, it was one of the reasons she had been allowed to be a gatherer in the first place. She knew the threats of her homeland. She knew how to take care of herself when the others invariably moved on.
She did not know what had taken her by surprise.
When she awoke in the dark, she cursed her blindness, until she felt the cold stone wall in front of her face. She turned her head slowly, neck and body aching. The beads and chain around her neck dragged across the ground, and she lowered her crest in irritation at the noise. Sound, air, and the patch of light she saw as she turned, irritated her.
Zay looked up, goggles smeared and blurred with dust, seeing only a sheer cliff face. She had been dumped in some kind of ravine. The air did not taste or smell familiar. She was not near her wasteland home. How far had her assailants carried her? Why not gut her after they had knocked her unconscious? Whatever had taken her had not bothered to strip the armor form her back or tail, either. Such arrogance, such foolishness. She lashed out at the wall with her claws, barely managing to score the smooth surface. There would be no climbing out of the pit she was in, at least, not from where she had been dumped.
She lowered her haunches a moment before springing forward in the narrow space, trying to gain enough air to unfurl her wings for proper flight.
A hum-
A chant-
A flash of a twirling staff-
The air cracked with energy and she was tossed back down, the searing stench of ozone clinging to her scales and clothes.
She heard the laughter even over her own labored breathing.
"Stay down, pet. No one here wants to take you for a walk."
Okay, I'll kick things off then. If anyone has better title suggestions, I'm all for it))
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Having held dominance over the lands for so long, the dragons are just now becoming aware of the threat in their homelands. The beastclans have long been a nuisance, creatures to be fought, and only sometimes befriended. Their recent rally into an organized fighting force is still being realized, and for some dragons, the knowledge of that threat has come too late...
Zayseshi was used to being separated from the others. She knew the wastes and what lurked there, it was one of the reasons she had been allowed to be a gatherer in the first place. She knew the threats of her homeland. She knew how to take care of herself when the others invariably moved on.
She did not know what had taken her by surprise.
When she awoke in the dark, she cursed her blindness, until she felt the cold stone wall in front of her face. She turned her head slowly, neck and body aching. The beads and chain around her neck dragged across the ground, and she lowered her crest in irritation at the noise. Sound, air, and the patch of light she saw as she turned, irritated her.
Zay looked up, goggles smeared and blurred with dust, seeing only a sheer cliff face. She had been dumped in some kind of ravine. The air did not taste or smell familiar. She was not near her wasteland home. How far had her assailants carried her? Why not gut her after they had knocked her unconscious? Whatever had taken her had not bothered to strip the armor form her back or tail, either. Such arrogance, such foolishness. She lashed out at the wall with her claws, barely managing to score the smooth surface. There would be no climbing out of the pit she was in, at least, not from where she had been dumped.
She lowered her haunches a moment before springing forward in the narrow space, trying to gain enough air to unfurl her wings for proper flight.
A hum-
A chant-
A flash of a twirling staff-
The air cracked with energy and she was tossed back down, the searing stench of ozone clinging to her scales and clothes.
She heard the laughter even over her own labored breathing.
"Stay down, pet. No one here wants to take you for a walk."