Edna
*The large intimidating looking hybrid was making his way across the rocky face of the skywing mountains. He had to go further and further away from the safety of his cave to find food as he'd been hunting all the goats near his home. The boy was big and had to eat a lot to maintain himself. He was used to starving for long periods of time and could handle the pain- thanks to his adoptive mother.. But he found it much more pleasant to eat when he was hungry.* 

*The hybrid was massive and scary looking with his scarred and worn scales. He was huge even for dragon standards. He also had a resting grump face despite not feeling particularly angry. He just looked like that. He never really had to practice facial expressions because he'd never really socially interacted before. He paused as he got to the large stone spire. He had never been out this far... What was this structure? Had he ventured into the kingdom.? Or at least.. On the very edge of it.*
Mary
Nag, nag, nag, that's all Grizzly did! Don't get her wrong, Valkyrie loved the old MudWing like a father, but three moons, sometimes he could be so *Demanding*! Valkyrie, do this, Valkyrie, do that! Today's mission that Grizzly had so graciously granted her was a trip to the market to buy groceries, of all the other things she could be doing that she was certain would be a million times more exciting than lugging around pouches of fruit. The pair of them might've been con artists and thieves, but stealing from other dragons was too risky of a dance to be performing everyday; so, to set the balance, Valkyrie and Grizzly used the money they pickpocketed off of passerbys in exchange for goods and services like- ugh- *Normal* Citizens. Boring!

Valkyrie hummed an aimless, off-key tune to busy her mind with as her wings carried her across the vast mountainside, the leather pouch wrapped around her neck by a strap flapping in the breeze. She was just about to tilt her wings downward and make a dive down by the woods shrouding the foot of the mountain when a curious flash of color caught her eye, halting her in her tracks. Silently, she swooped over to a tall, jagged outcrop rising up out of the ground and hid behind it, her dark scales melting seamlessly into the long shadow it cast, and peered around the edge of it to get a closer look at whatever it was that had thrown her off track.

There, not too far away, a unique dragon prowled about the area, their scales a vibrant clash of blues and reds that she'd never seen before. She leaned forward, intrigued. Could they be a RainWing? No, they seemed too spiky and bulky to be one of those dragons. Ooh, maybe they were some kind of hybrid! She'd heard stories of dragons sharing the blood of more than one tribe, but she had yet to see one in the flesh.
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Fascinated, she made the mistake of leaning closer to get a better look, only for her talons to slip off the stone and send her tumbling down the hill towards the stranger, a hurtling, shrieking ball of flailing limbs.
Larry
0.0 *Cracks knuckles*
Edna
*Frostfire heard the faint flapping of wings and the scraping of claws against stone. He tilted his head up just in time to see Val come hurdling toward him. He had just enough time to make a confused face before the dragon came barreling into him. Due to his... Bulky nature- Frosty wasn't budged very much from where he stood. Taking the full force of this dragon careening into him pretty well. He sorta just.. Slid back a bit.* 

*He stayed completely silent as he stared down at the stranger. Externally he looked pretty stone faced. Albeit a bit confused and a bit grumpy looking. Internally he was panicking. Another dragon? Another dragon that came crashing into him? DID HE HAVE TO SOCIALLY INTERACT NOW? He hadn't done that.. Well- ever. At least no real meaningful conversations. Only a few interrogations.. And a lot of murder.* 

*Frosty shook that thought from his head as he stepped back a bit. Clearing his throat and finally saying something in response to this situation.* "Are.. You alright?" *He asked in a fairly deep slightly scratchy voice. He looked over the other dragon for any major injuries. Despite looking like he could snap a dragon in half- he was being surprisingly calm and courteous about the accident. Definitely more patient than he appeared to be on the outside.*
Mary
*Stupid, stupid, stupid!* Valkyrie scolded herself as soon as she came to her senses and the world stopped spinning, already picturing the eye roll she would've received from Grizzly had he witnessed her wipeout. *"I thought I trained you to be sneakier than that,"* He'd say in his low, rumbling voice, chuckling at her misfortune.

Blinking hard back into reality, Valkyrie looked up, up, and up, from a pair of legs to a stony face that betrayed not a single emotion. She swallowed back the prickle of apprehension that wriggled its way into her heart like a stubborn thorn and flashed the hybrid a wobbly grin, shaping her talons into an awkward finger gun formation and pointing them at him with all the charisma she could muster, dry as her throat felt at the prospect of being mere inches away from a stranger's claws.

**"Hey,"** She greeted smoothly, trying her best to appear casual, like she hadn't just tumbled head-first down a mountainside and careened into the other dragon like a fly hitting the wall. **"Don't mind me, just rollin' on over. Name's Valkyrie."** Pausing, she sheepishly added, **"Oh, and I'm alright, thank you."**
Edna
*He stared silently for another few moments. Looking down at Val. He looked at her awkward finger guns. He had no idea what that meant. He tried to imitate that but ended up just looking down at his claw in confusion for a few seconds before shaking his head and returning his gaze to Val. He had never seen a dragon act like this before. It was truly strange to him. Did she hit her head really hard?* 

"..Are you sure?" *Maybe that was how normal dragons acted. He was probably the weird one here. He did live isolated in the icewing kingdom. Not many opportunities to get aquatinted with the neighbors. Especially since he was forced to kill most of his neighbors at his mother's request...* 


"That was... A long fall." *He noted. He then paused for a moment. Be a normal dragon! Say normal dragon things! What are normal dragon things.?* "If you do have an injury.. I can help you?" *He offered. He did have some gauze left over from all that stuff he took from the icewing market. He just had a ton of supplies squirreled away in his cave. Maybe helping a dragon could be his first step toward living some semblance of a normal life.* 

*He then realized something.* "Oh- I haven't.. Said my name yet." *He cleared his throat again. The more he spoke the more apparent it was he was very different from the way he looked.* "I'm Frostfire." *He stated. Watching Val.*
Mary
Valkyrie blinked slowly and tilted her head, stifling her amusement as the stranger seemed to try his hand at mimicking her finger gun gesture, but ultimately gave up his efforts. He was certainly an interesting-looking dragon, and already he was proving to be quite the character both inside and out. Perhaps her earlier anxieties about being torn to shreds as vengeance for barreling into him were poorly judged, considering it didn't even seem like he *Knew* How to use those claws of his.

Smiling, she raised herself up off the ground with a flourish, lowering her head in a polite, albeit theatrical bow. **"Pleasure to meet ya, Frostfire! And don't worry about lil' ol' me, I've endured much worse than a silly tumble. See, watch!"**

She turned and made to stride in the direction opposite of Frostfire, but a sudden, shooting pain searing fire into one of her hind legs had her crumpling to the ground with a wince. Craning her neck around to gauge what had happened, she realized that she had banged up her leg somewhere along the lines of her falling down the hill, only having noticed it once the adrenaline burned off. She looked up at the IceWing-SkyWing hybrid and chuckled sheepishly. **"Actually, I think I could use a little help, now that you mention it."**
Edna
"Uhm.. Pleasure to meet you too." *He was sort of just mimicking what Val said in an attempt to appear like he knew what he was doing. He then watched as she failed to walk. He frowned slightly.* "Your leg looks broken." *He could tell. He's seen a lot of broken bones and injured dragons. He knew some medicine and how to treat injuries. He had become determined to help this dragon. And once his mind was set on something- it was gonna happen.* 

"You probably can't walk on it." *He said out loud as he thought.* "I live in a cave not too far from here. I can bring you there and help you recover." *Now how exactly was he gonna get this dragon there... He glanced around.* "Is it alright if I pick you up and fly you there?" *It was probably better to ask permission than just yoinking the poor dragon into the air without warning.*