Flight Class

[Lyndsey]

"What does that make me then? Unidentified?" Damon asked seriously, curious to understand her reasoning behind it. "You're perfect, I don't know what you mean! The other dragons like you as well."

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

It took a good two hours, but he was finally cleaned. Her arms felt sore.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"The other tamed dragons," she whispered.

[Rock]

" Thank you," Ro'Daar said as he got up and stretched.

[Lyndsey]

"Who've you been speaking to that's from the olden times? it wasn't that one dragon from earlier, was it?" He asked.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She bobbed her head sadly. He'd been so strong and independent. "What if being raised as a pet makes you weaker?" she asked.

Anya rolled her arms. "I'd better be super Peregrine."

[Rock]

" You are best of them all," he said with a curt nod.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"Why don't we just scrape it off as it forms so it's not such a big deal over time?" she suggested.

[Rock]

" It only forms after I attempt to use my lava, so if nothing happens for awhile you'll be fine," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She nodded. "Sounds good." Cleaning ages of lava really stank. And hurt the arms.

[Rock]

Ro'Daar just sat there, realizing how fast everything changed.

[Lyndsey]

Ilsa wrote: "She bobbed her head sadly. He'd been so strong and independent. "What if being raised as a pet makes you weaker?" she asked.

Anya rolled her arms. "I'd better be super Peregrine.""

"You don't have to be a pet, as much as I'm not one. We're independent, yet united. You could see this from the other dragon? Confidence. He understood who he was. Maybe you have yet to find this little one?"

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"I feel too young," she said, lowering her head in confusion. "All the dragons here are so old, I should be one of them, right?"

Anya flopped in the grass, resting. This guy wasn't half bad.

[Lyndsey]

"You're not though, that's what makes you different. Youth is a strength, you have the potential to become more powerful and mighty than the older dragons. You're not held back by our old customs, or paranoia. Really, you are free from the chains that we've made for ourselves these long years."

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She sighed. "I don't want to be thought of as... odd..." she looked back, as if Ro'Daar might be watching from over her shoulder. "I don't want to be too unique."

((Gonna sleep.))

[Lyndsey]

((Hahaha, okay! Nighty night!))

"You don't have to be," Damon said assuringly.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"How?" she asked.

[Lyndsey]

"You find it in yourself.
I chose to be a soldier, to throw away who I was and what I had. I went after what I wanted, I knew what I needed to fight for."

[Lyndsey]

"You can do the same."

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"I don't want to throw away who I am and what I have," she pointed out, "Even if it means I get what I want."

[Rock]

" So what now?" He sighed.

[Lyndsey]

"Then I guess you'll have to limit yourself to what you are now." Damon said kindly, secretly glad she wasn't ready to go to the measures he went to to find strength.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She smiled. "We do dragony things and attend outdoor classes while trying to keep dragons and humans from warring and killing each other."

She smiled, if ever a dragon could, and looked back at him shortly. She wished he was a happier bond. She tried ever so hard. Maybe she was young and insecure, but she wanted only the best for him.

[Rock]

" I would love to wipe these humans off this world, but war is not the way, so I'll attend these..... Classes," he said dreadfuly. Being alive for 3,000 years makes it hard to learn nee things sometimes.

[Lyndsey]

((Goodmorning Mr. Rock!))

Damon continued looking forward, "so, forest then? Let's get this over with."

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"Hmm... You'd just love to destroy the program and humans, but without war?" She tried to get her mind around that. "Hmm..." She tilted her head. "Did you like the scratching?"

"All right," she said, circling over the forest and descending.

[Lyndsey]

((I'll post in the forest))

[Rock]

" The idea is only a dream, it's foolish to try, as for scratching, I do not think I feel comfortable with you doing that," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"Oh, do you like it too much?" she joked, packing away the tongue scraper.

[Rock]

" I like it, but I do not feel you should, when you scratch a pet, they do not scratch in retern, and I am far to big to return the scratch," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"Oh," she said, "I suppose not. Though you're far too big to return the tongue scraping," she retorted, smiling brightly.

[Rock]

" Yes, but that was more helpful than for pleasure," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"I was helping you for your pleasure and I got sore arms out of it. In repayment, I'm now held in the esteem of a Peregrine AND I'm allowed to scratch your ear."

[Rock]

" You want to scratch my ear?" He asked. Looking at her oddly.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"Yes, I do."

[Rock]

"If it amuses you, I guess so," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She smiled. "All right. Now, I suppose you're ready for sleep?"

[Rock]

"Yes, I will find the old place I had sleeped the night before, many open places between the trees big enough for me," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She nodded. "When will I see you again?"

[Rock]

"Tomorrow perhaps," he said.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"All right," she said, standing up. "I'm going to bathe and get some rest." She was pretty much grossed out by the tongue scraping. Even dragons drooled.

[Rock]

" Very well," he said, stretching out his wngs.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"Mind dropping me back off at home?" she asked.

[Rock]

" Where is it?" He asked, bowing his head down for her to get on.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

"The academy. The dorms are a short walk away."

[Rock]

" Very well," he said, taking to the air with her.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

She happily scratched below the ear.

[Rock]

He wished she wouldn't distract him while he flew, but he didn't complain.

[Ilsa, Veratri, Ember, Nigethion, Shinrai, Anya, Adara]

Feldrer had loved being scratched there. The memory was poignant.

[Rock]

" 5not while I am flying," he said.