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Raia

(#2332798)

Level 1 Imperial

Familiar

Shadow Sprite

Energy: 50/50

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Length

22.53 m

Wingspan

20.03 m

Weight

6214.97 kg

Genetics

Shadow
Iridescent

Purple
Alloy

Storm
Smirch

Hatchday

Feb 14, 2014
(10 years)

Breed

Adult
Imperial

Eye Type

Shadow
Glowing

Level 1 Imperial

EXP: 0 / 245

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Biography

Raia
Rune Painter

Some time ago, Reina and Hephaestus helped another dragon found her own clan: for all its troubles, the Lair by the Sea is rich and strong, and can afford to give aid, and does.

Several months later, Raia arrived, a gift from that new clan in thanks for the help... and a mysterious and unexpected gift she was. Reina explained at length to her ally that the Lair by the Sea is often beset by difficulties, and that the Windsinger calls many, but the allied clan founder insisted: Reina had helped. Reina must now accept the dues that have been earned.

Their newest member is nocturnal. Completely. Her Shadow eyes are blinded by daylight--indeed the first sight many of the clan had of her was of a young imperial girl, seeming to weep at her fate--so she comes out only at night, to talk with those dragons who keep the watch then.

But not much. She does not talk much.

The clan continues to think that she is unhappy, but the truth is that she likes it here. The shadows are larger at night on the plains: vast moving pools of them, poured from the bowl of the sky. The breeze, unfettered, seems to sing in her ears. All of it seems to encourage an expansiveness of spirit: she feels, sitting on top of the rocky roof of the lair, that she is spreading out in every direction, her soul growing.

As a gift, she is teaching Thelxinoe how to make fluorescent dyes. Together they have been painting the lair's roof, so that overflying dragons will know: Here is a clan of wealth and power, that withstands great hardships.

Raia will go to the Windsinger one day, she thinks, to dance on his evening breezes. For now, though... she is content.

***

When Hephaestus offered her sunglasses, her first instinct was to refuse. She didn't even know why, only that it embarrassed her that her disability might be made obvious. Better to have watering eyes (or not be seen at all!) than for other dragons to know how poorly adapted she was to the light!

But Thelxinoe pleaded with her to try them. 'You'll be able to help me with the rune painting at the market instead of doing the boxed spells at home. Someone will be able to do the bigger dragons!' She tried a lopsided smile, earfan sagging. 'Can you see me crawling all over a guardian, smearing paint on them? There's a reason Layla won't let them have it done at the market!'

Reluctantly, Raia laughed, because the image was funny. But they were both surprised when Thelo, known for the quality of his silences and his enigma when he spoke, said very plainly, 'Wear them, Raia. They become you better than tears.'

Startled and chastened--and touched--she donned them, and for the first time walked the daylit world without pain. Thelxinoe capered to have her help at the clan blankets, and together they painted twice as many dragons, and the clan soon had gems for all its needs. But as grateful as she was for the glasses, she was more glad that at night, when the day's labors were done, she could doff them, and sit with her friends and family, and watch the moon on the water.

'You don't mind me without them?' Raia asked Thelxinoe once. 'Or that you have to stay up late to keep me company?'

'Of course not. I love you just the way the Shadowbinder made you. And I mean that.'

Raia nudged her. 'Best friend.'

Thelxinoe hugged her, furred arms around sinuous neck, wings half-spread for balance. And then the tundra added, 'But Thelo!'

'I know!'

'Maybe he's sweet on you!'

'I don't think he's sweet on anyone.' But the idea made her smile.

***

'Did you ever think you would stay so long?'

The two friends are sitting together on the cliff near the lair, watching the star-pricked waters lapping themselves to the horizon: the tundra Thelxinoe and the imperial Raia, unlikely companions and the clan's accomplished rune painters.

The question doesn't surprise Raia; she knows her friend has been working up to it for months now. 'No,' she admits. 'I thought I would go to the Windsinger long before now. I certainly didn't think I'd last so long. Much less travel!' She shakes her head in rueful amusement, mane waving in the late evening wind. 'And to end up here of all places.'

Thelxinoe laughs. 'In the brightest part of the world!'

'At least the glasses help.' Raia grins and coils her long tail around the tundra. Thelxinoe leans against the much larger dragoness's side.

'I'm glad you haven't gone.' Thelxinoe looks up. 'You won't soon, will you?'

Raia chuckles. 'Do you know how many outstanding orders we have to fill, Thelxy? I'm going to be working until the day I die!'

Thelxinoe laughs. 'You and me both.'

They say no more about it. They don't have to. But curled up so, with friendship at her side and family at her back and all the glories of the world before her, Raia feels a diffuse and immanent wonder: that she could have fallen so in love with the world that exaltation to the gods no longer sounds like the fulfillment of a dream. The fulfillment of a lifetime, perhaps, after that lifetime's work, and duty, and love, perhaps. But not of a life curtailed.

The imperial leans over and brushes the edge of her muzzle against the tundra's earfan, smiles and the low-chest hum of contentment this earns her. Eventually, they speak again, about their plans for the following day and the orders they have to fulfill and the new clan-members who've been helping Layla and whether any of them have promise.

Life is good.

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