Mind Pairing
Day Nanphaw, ever the
exhuberant and impatient entity, loudly knocked on the doors of the deep
cavern. Her eggs had hatched a full 10 days before. She'd signaled so and
from then she'd received more than enough food to feed an entire armada,
let alone her three draklings. But two of them were voracious boys and her
daughter took after her in personality and energy, meaning she burned a
lot of calories as well.
In fact, Nanphaw felt quite tired, it was a feeling she hardly knew but
after today she would greatly appreciate the luxury of a good night's
rest. She was also quite relieved that others would now help in rearing
the draklings.
Over the last 10 days, the aspirants had been growing restless. They were
asked not to leave the castle and especially Zorulle had been going a bit
stir-crazy. This was her second castle standing and the fear of another
failure weighed heavy on her mind. On the flip side, Tungkhai, had been
driving the scribes crazy with his neverending questions. And squeezed
between them, Menos tried to soothe everyone by playing music, but even
the laid back gypsy was feeling antsy.
So the three aspirants hastily made their way to the deep cavern, joined
by a large group of locals aiming to witness the joyous event and to
partake in the feast. Impatient, Nanphaw was already waiting for the
humans when they entered. Her three draklings stood before her. Two
mud-coloured males, one of them having noticeably darker wings than the
other, and a bright blue water-coloured female.
"Welcome, welcome." Nanphaw roared.
The aspirants gathered in front and the others found seats. The draklings
niffed, twitched and fidgeted. Finally, though it didn't actually take
long at all, Nanphaw nodded to her draklings to advance.
"I present you my sons Vagawwe and Kilawwe and my daughter Emweaw."
The three draklings approached the aspirants, asking questions and taking
in their scent and stance.
It was the lighter mud male Vagawwe who decided first. He parked his
little behind next to Menos and nuzzled his side, making the musician gasp
to hold back a giggle.
"I like your quiet ssside... and I know you'll treat
me." he said with a knowing look.
The bright water female was brighter than a standard water drak and most
locals had dubbed the colour waterfall. She would be a force to be
reckoned with, being about as difficult to contain as the water she was
named for. And she knew which candidate to pick, she had her eye on the
ninja who would lead a far more thrilling life than the rule-bound scribe.
"Keep me entertained. I want to be thrilled."
she told Zorulle.
Finally the dark-winged mud drakling took a last whiff of Tungkhai's
clothes before deciding that the dark-skinned, white-haired young man was
indeed good enough to pair.
"There is no going back from thiss." he said
solemnly, "Do you object?"
Pick Up
Menos (m) and Mud
Vagawwe (m)
trained by: Bellinde and Mud
Lingwe (Knight and Judge Training)
Zorulle
(f) and Waterfall Emweaw (f) - ninja twin
trained by: Ashley and Day
Nanphaw (Knight Training with extras)
Tungkhai (m) and Rock Kilawwe (m) black w silver hair,
domineering scribe
trained by: Ingryd and Water
Jelti (Knight and Archivist Training) |