Ordinal

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Ordinal was rigorously trained in navigation from birth in order to guide a large itinerant clan of coatls around and towards the Ashfall Waste. However, she has always suffered from auditory processing disorder which made the screeching of coatls unbearable to her. She ran away to the Wandering Contagion as soon as she was old enough, hoping to integrate with dragons who communicated in a way that didn't cause her pain. It was there that she encountered Southward, who invited her to live in Alyosha's Clan.

Despite the large numbers of coatls in the Clan, the majority speak in draconic. In fact, Ordinal is one of two coatls originally from a majority-coatl clan, the other being Tarkovskii. As a consequence, the screeching coatl language is barely ever heard, to Ordinal's relief. For this reason she keeps away from Tarkovskii's laboratory, as he prefers to communicate in that language.

She works with Skywall and the explorers as a navigator. She's withdrawn and dislikes being around other dragons, because multiple simultaneous voices are very unpleasant for her to hear. Skywall is working up to sending her out on her own independent missions, but he wants her to apprentice more first.

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