<span style="color: #5900b3">"Oh really? You aren't strong enough to just pick us three up? Maybe I was wrong to take you as my consort." </span>She stuck her tongue out teasingly and adjusted her grip on Ana to stand up with the human in her arms.<span style="color: #5900b3">"Mmm, I want nothing more than to get my hands and tongue on you Ana. I guess your lust will just have to wait a little longer. I don't think Ashia wants me to put you on display for her right now."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #4d4dff">"For the best. Ras is The'kal's son so it makes sense that chaos follows him everywhere as well. Oh, and he's a very accomplished assassin and is responsible for killing a very high profile Black Dragon."</span>Emily scoffed and rolled her eyes.<span style="color: #4d4dff">"Some of our flights were better than others. But yes, strictly speaking she is... what she is trying to do is good for dragonkind as a whole. It'll be interesting to see if she succeeds. She is highly unpopular among most dragons who know of her. They've sent kill squads after her and... that's how she ended up with Ruby. The'kal let Ashia kill the rest and Ruby was held in captivity until she was beaten into submission and broken. And then the Black drake who did the bloody work was executed for the previously mentioned torture and Ashia was left with a scared shitless Red dragon who had everything stolen from her."</span>She made a dismissive wave gesture and shrugged.<span style="color: #4d4dff"> "Sure, and in an environment where food is plentiful and you can support a handicapped person that's all very true and makes sense. But when you live in a cave and have to either hunt or starve to death, you can't afford to spare a meal on a child that can't fend for itself. In harsher climates eating our own young isn't out of the question. And no, I haven't had any children other than Chiren here. I've been under Miriam's care since I was a hatchling. In fact if I wasn't stolen from my clutch and sold I would have been left to starve to death. I was born blind and with misshapen front arms. As a hatchling Nail was stomped by adventurers when they were smashing the eggs in the cave she lived in, she lost use of everything below her shoulders. Miriam nursed her back to health, as much as a Human woman could."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>