MATIA

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STATS
Name: Matia
Age: 18
Gender: Female

Description: Matia is a short-statured, dark-skinned woman with bright brown eyes, a straight nose with flaring nostrils and a small mouth. She is neither thin nor fat, watching what she eats because she doesn't have an active way of life. She spends most of her time lounging with the cats.
Personality: Matia is pretty laid-back. She isn't the most devout of people but has respect for those priests and priestesses who are. She feels herself lucky to have been given a task that she enjoys and she will do what she can to remain right where she is. She takes good care of the cats, but isn't the person who'll go look for them when they go missing. the cats are free creatures after all.
Function: Keeper of Cats, Priestess to Mafdet
Skills: Relaxation, Defusing a tense atmosphere.

Family: Matia was orphaned and taken in by the temple. As such it was natural for her to grow up to become a priestess, even if she's not that convinced of the teachings of the temple. But with her status, she will have no prospects on a 'normal' life and being the keeper of the cats is a cushy job anyway. 
Pet: Ash Red Chalky Bar Yuny (m) from Dray's Adoptions
Bond: Light Green Light Court Charinruth from Ryslen (Court Clutch)

HATCHING
It was late afternoon when the call went out to gather the novos and spectators for the hatching of the triple clutch. The light of the day was still strong, but soon enough it would give way to twilight, and eventually night. The mothers had asked for a dozen or more novos each, even though barely a third of that number of eggs was visible at any time. Wagers were made over the total number of eggs, the total hatchlings, the presence or number of queen eggs as was usually the case for these events.
Ryslen luckily had no shortage of novos. Some were “leftover” from the hundreds gathered for the Flurry. Others came specifically for the Court clutches. More yet were “regular” searches for the Nidus, what with their return to the Nexus and the growing list of Flights eventual hatchings to be held on the red sands.
The hopefuls came quickly to the sands, abandoning lessons or tasks if they had to. Most came in the white robes they were provided, though some “forgot”, and some chose to come to the sands more quickly by skipping the stop back at their quarters for the garment. Nonhuman or novos of above-average size would sometimes wear a white scarf or stole as the symbol of their candidacy, though many did not. Scores of hatchings at Ryslen had shown that while fancy clothes or bright accessories might catch a hatchling’s attention, it did not guarantee a bonding.
Someone had suggested that all of the eggs should be arranged in a line, or two crescents and an s-shape so that they’d hatch like a row of dominos, but eggs regularly refused to bow to the whims of those outside of the shell. They hatched when they were ready, and one of the larger eggs in Eilonwyth’s clutch was beyond ready. The shell snapped audibly, and the dragonet within pushed the halves of the shell apart. Light coloured hindquarters kicked the shell away, revealing the hatchling’s hide to be silver. The hatchling’s rear toes were dark red, though, his Court markings all but hidden in the red sand. The hatchling backed out of the shell and looked around, faceted eyes blinking. His front half was a warm bronze, a colour expected from this clutch. It appeared that even though this clutch was a full court clutch that some of Ryslen's magic had crept into the offspring, allowing them to also claim the Light, Night and Twilight effects.
When a Light Green broke free of her shell next, she was greeted with cheers, basking in the adoration. The hatching continued with several bondings and even a little skirmish that needed a baby Twilight Blood Court Gold's intervention to be settled.
But then the last unbonded Light, the green who’d been basking in adoration, had finally gotten her fill and moved directly to her person, like a cat demanding attention.
"Matia! I’m hungry!" The dragon paused a moment. "and Yuny is hungry! Hungry!!"
Matia blinked at the Light Court Light Green.
“Of course, Charinruth. It would be my pleasure.”

ADULT
Yuny lounged on top of Charinruth. His small feathery wings drooping lazily on top of the Light Green's warm hide. Their purring and rumbling merged to create one potent lullaby. Matia knew better than to give in to the temptation of joining them. She'd been glad that both her dragon and her charge were such good friends but that got a little dicy when Yuny decided he wanted to be naughty as Charinruth was more likely to join in than to report the little winged cat.
"But you like it when things get lively." Charinruth interjected.
Matia chuckled, "As long as you don't try to prank me."
"We wouldn't dare."
After a few moments of blissful silence, Charinruth continued a sleepy thought:
"I wonder how Yuny will react to a mating flight."
"Huh. We never had kittens at the Temple so I don't know if he even can reproduce. But he just might rouse all the cats in the vicinity anyway. He's like that."

Abilities: Telepathy, Verbal Speech, Teleportation, Fire Breath, Fire Balls

STORY .-^-. MATIA .-^-. SIAMUN .-^-. TANTAMANI

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