SEEDLING
Ippiki returned to his room after the 3rd guard tour of his shift. He'd been all alone here until he'd met his life partner Ichirin. She'd seen something in the quiet man he'd become after losing his family, scared to open up his heart. He was way past opening up, she seemed to have blown open his heart and taken permanent residence. 
Carefully he patted the little seed she had given him. Ichirin liked to look for "treasure" and often took home trash she'd found on the bottom of the lakes and ponds where she swam. This seed she'd supposedly gotten from a strange snakelike creature with a blue-flower head. Even if it was silly, Ippiki would do everything she asked of him, so he had accepted the seed and carried it with him just as he'd promised.
But as he had a job to do, he didn't pay the seed much attention, just kept it on his body, where his body warmth coaxed the first leaves to sprout, and then a small snakelike tail and some more leaves and then a head with flipper-ears and a sharp little beak. 
Ippiki only noticed the change when the little plant dragon popped up out of his pocket and asked for food: 
"Hungry!" it called.
Ippiki startled and looked down, surprised to find a living creature where the seed had been.
'Ficus hungry." the plant dragon insisted and waited for Ippiki to get him some food.

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ADULT
Ficus had grown considerable larger and was now taller than te tallest sea elf in the settlement. The two plant dragons were happy to patrol the town with him and made his job a lot easier. They seemed to be well matched in speed and temperament.
"Gudrun matched us well." Ficus told him.
"Wait, she was real?" Ippiki asked.
"You still wondered after we'd sprouted?" Ficus asked incredulously.
"Lady Gudrun is our benefactor. She brought us here where we can thrive." Pacia chipped in.
"I think I owe Ichirin an apology."
"She'd love a gift more." Ficus advised him.

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Lantessama Isle
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