Stories of the Crow's Nest

New Children, Part 1

Four dragons walked alone in the dark night, smaller figures nestled on their backs. "I just wish Mama could have let us see her at least. You know, make sure she's safe." One of the dragons murmured, his head hanging low with tiredness. Despite being plague dragons none of them were aclimated to the strong levels of toxic magic here. "I know, Gllyph, but Hertiginna wanted to keep them and there's nothing we can do." Another dragon, a female with a soft voice and a creamy colored male hatching laying on her back, responded. She looked just as tired, but she didn't show it as much as Gllyph. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't have been allowed to see her, Silkk." A different male dragon combatted the female, Silkk's, words. He had a long, flowing hatching of red without the signature form of a ridgeback situated on him. "Just shut your trap, Brynn. You were the whole dragon that got us stuck with Bird Seed and Kaiser anyway. If it wasn't for you we wouldn't have to do this at all." Despite the last dragon, a silver female's, harsh words she kept her wings carefully folded over the small crimson hatchling on her back. "Ennvy! We don't say that! Crow has helped us so much, we can't be that mean." Silkk chided. Ennvy rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Look what I snagged from the old man!" Ennvy dropped a plush figurine from her horns, holding it in her mouth triumphantly. "Psh, wish Maart could've seen that. He would've called it pathetic. He never did like Papa." Gllyph observed about the torn up doll. Brynn hummed a short response, his attention back on his aching feet that just begged to be off the ground. "Let's just get home. We're almost at the dome now, once we get there we need to turn a sharp left into the enchanted zone of the clan." Silkk sighed. She just wanted to sleep in her den again. They had stayed with their Mama, Pottah, and their father Belphagor for a day or so before collecting these three, and even this little time exhausted their ability to stand the plague magic. Ennvy held the plaguebringer doll in her mouth, feeling accomplished knowing that Kaiser liked plushies and dolls like this and would maybe even reward her for getting it. "...I wish Maart could've come with us. I know he didn't like Papa much but he loved Mama and I thought he would like to see the new blood." Brynn commented, his wings folding protectively over the hatchling on his back while he spoke of her. "Just shut up about Maart. You have such rose tinted glasses with him, he isn't who he used to be. Just leave him be, Ryn." Gllyph snapped. He didn't snap often, but in his tired state he could barely think. Brynn didn't respond. He wanted to talk to his siblings, the tension between them almost painful."Aries'll have our heads for bringing this girl in." Brynn finally said, referring the the imperial dragon on his back. "I know, but we just can't leave her here. Maybe he'll make an exception. Mama and papa don't want to keep any of them unless Hertiginna wants them to, they wouldn't have kept her if we didn't take her." Silkk responded, her eyes attempting to shut themselves. "En, do you think we could take one more rest night? We've been at this for so long." Gllyph requested, his voice heavy with tiredness. "No! There's only a few hours, maybe two or so, left, we can't stop now. We don't want these three waking up either, Nautilus's potion only lasted for twelve hours." Ennvy responded, her voice less snappish now than normal. She really did want to sleep too, even fighter dragons as defiant as her got tired. She scraped the ground with her gloves of steal claws with every step, each one reminding her of the claws she no longer had. Brynn wasn't much better off, his wooden prosthetic leg with their fake claws causing a limp. That didn't matter now. They needed to get home, and they needed to sleep before they could get this all figured out.