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Date Posted: 10:28:26 06/17/05 Fri
Author: D'minic & Ulyssanth, Homer, Raz, Vala
Subject: >~<
In reply to: Romana 's message, "Fresh batch up for Impression" on 02:13:16 05/01/05 Sun

High above the beach, a brown dragon appears from between, his freshly-scrubbed tan hide still refusing to gleam more than a little in the sunlight. Soaring above the sand, he moves at a slow, sedate pace, his rider peering over his shoulder to eye the beach below. They're obviously looking for something, and at this beach, they're almost certainly looking for firelizards. Two tiny shapes beside them, one bronze and one blue, detach from their posts on either side of the dragon's head and zoom downwards with wild enthusiasm.

There! Ulyssanth announces proudly, pleased to have spotted Romana's nest before either his rider or the firelizards. There's a green clutch right there. Flaring his wings, he begins to circle downwards.

/It looks like she's guarding it,/ D'minic notes as they get closer. /We'd better be polite, greens can be touchier than queens. Raz, don't harass her, get back here!/ Chirring his disappointment, the awkwardly-proportioned blue firelizard turns back less than half a dragonlength from Romana's clutch and races upwards to perch on his owner's shoulder. The big green on D'minic's other shoulder gives him a long, condescending look, ignoring the buzzing raspberry she recieves in return. She turns her head away again, as if Raz should have been honored to recieve any notice from her, and if he's going to be rude about it she won't bother. D'minic chuckles at his green, earning himself an equally studious movement of inattention.

Trying not to blow sand around, Ulyssanth lands as gently as he's capable of, managing a delicacy that would surprise most who have seen the brown in action. Homer, he calls hopefully, and the bronze firelizard darts away from his examination of Romana and her clutch - from a safe distance, of course, because his dragon is always warning him about how touchy greens can be - and flitters over to flop down between Ulyssanth's eyes. Dragons can't Impress firelizards... but Ulyssanth had been the very first thing Homer saw as he hatched, the brown's mind the very first thing he'd heard (even before D'minic's welcoming thoughts), and as far as Homer is concerned, if they're both with D'minic than that means that they can be with each other that way, too. It's an intriguing triangle.

Scrambling off Ulyssanth's back, his normal ease somewhat impeded by the firelizards perched on each shoulder, D'minic pauses a moment to straighten himself out before approaching Romana's nest. Stopping a few feet away so that she won't feel threatened, he drops to his knees and nods politely to the green. He's not seen many greens guarding their nests, but it can't hurt to be just as courteous as he would be to a gold. "My apologies for disturbing you, little mother, but we were hoping that perhaps you'd let us take one of your eggs." Raz starts to lean forward, eyes swirling a happy blue-green in proportions that D'minic has always seen a bit of rudeness or mischief, and he quickly wraps a gentle but firm hand around the firelizard's snout before the blue can ruin the moment. Ignoring the indignant glare he recieves in return, the brownrider goes on. "I know that we already have three of your kind, but hey, I'm rather fond of them." He smiles, affection tempered by the anxious hope in his eyes. "So, ah... may we?"

((If he gets an egg, it'll actually go to Marja - I'm planning on doing their happy sibling reunion soon, and this is the quickest way I can think of to get her a firelizard egg. =^^;;= Just thought you might like to know.))

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ACK! -- Romana, 19:20:16 06/19/05 Sun
- >~< -- D'minic & Ulyssanth, Homer, Raz, Vala, 23:35:43 08/12/05 Fri