Brain is Musty...: Ficlet O'Clock Truth or Dare

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This entry is part 35 of 35 in the series 365 Challenge

The current prompts are leaving me dull and uninspired. Seeking creative procrastination: ask me any question about how something works in a storyworld, a why that's been pestering you, or any backstory you just really want to know, and I'll commentfic it.

If that doesn't inspire you, how about a character (original or fandom) and something crazy you would dare them to do.

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Re: Blood of Dragons [3/3]

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Akena watched her mother take up the dance where Burn had left it the night before, watched as her mother put her sword back into her hand and bid Akena continue it again. So Akena did, until her muscles ached and her bones were weary enough for the sun to be sinking in the sky, though it was not yet noon. She questioned Shaina with her eyes for she had no words left to ask.

“I am also a dragon, daughter,” Shaina said.

It took Akena aback, but could hardly be denied. Shaina may have been born with one gift, the gift to use another’s life and strength and power, but it had granted her all else. Shaina was all gifts, even the dragons, and though she was the Abstention Line, she too guarded their Household and their nation. She had taught their sons and their daughters to guard, taught them the histories, taught her own daughter the laws of the Households of Vardin.

Akena lowered her eyes, accepting her mother’s word. She raised them again and stared into dragon fire in her mother’s eyes. She would guard, no matter who looked into her eyes and saw the enemy.

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Re: Blood of Dragons [3/3]

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Shaina is Casal?

No... but maybe related somehow? Reread Crossing the Barrier, but still didn't know for sure.

She sounds a lot like... Rogue. Yet... she has mastery so that she doesn't kill.

She also sounds a bit like Ashen.

And everyone is afraid of the dragons?

I admit my brain's not with me again. Is this an earlier piece? Where does it fall in the timeline?

Re: Blood of Dragons [3/3]

[scribblemyname]

Shaina's last name is Casal and she was a member of one of the hunting teams in Crossing the Barrier, but she went as back hand. Her gift is a mixture of Rogue/Ashen/the Database: she absorbs like Rogue, but keeps entries permanently, and can put life into people as well. She uses a borrowed healing power when she touches people (which she does rarely) to keep them alive.

Later in the timeline, sometime immediately before or after the Opening of the Barrier to outsiders. Nobody really trusts the dragons. Mãenet usually are afraid of them.

Re: Blood of Dragons [3/3]

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Oh. I didn't realize she was on one of the other teams, even after rereading it. I guess I didn't pay enough attention.

Ah, like the supercharged Rogue, only a bit different. Cool.

The sword thing threw me off. I was thinking it must be earlier.

So... Dragons are kind of... outcasts even among the kahtchen?

Re: Blood of Dragons [3/3]

[scribblemyname]

The sword's traditional.

Let's just say they can have personal relationships and respect, but the prejudice hasn't been all stamped out. Aysha's reaction to Rohth under pressure wasn't pretty. It's because they fight Rothnari all the time who bred for dragon. It's become common to call Rothnari dragons and that's when dragons began to be a perjorative.

Re: Blood of Dragons [3/3]

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Okay.