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Listening, Venus filed the questions into her mind in the order they came, then blinked and thought over the first one. Why is it so hard to answer this? Of course I'm not nauseas! After a moment, she spoke. "I'm not nauseas. Wintergreen and I collided because I challenged her to a race, and then we had to stop but we didn't have enough time. And Clay is a sort of brownish red color." After a moment, Venus shook her head slightly. "Is it too late to say I feel.. Well, not exactly nauseas, but.." With a groan, Venus lifted her talons to her head, clutching her snout as a low snarl crept from the edges of her maw.

“Oh!” exclaimed Crocodile when the other dragon listed off qualities of crocodiles. He gave a lopsided smile when he was lightly tapped. “Yeah! I’m strong, not as strong as my big wings but, yknow, strong!” Crocodile decided not to mention that he would never actually use his strength, except maybe to move a rock.

mango curled up and fell asleep next to nightfall.

rose was about to fall asleep but stayed awake.

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The icy hybrid shrugged her wings. "Not really. I just came up with it when I was younger and had no idea what to do with my scratches." She said simply, not wanting to jump into her whole sob story of a childhood, fearful of sounding annoying. She kept her ears pricked in case Clay said something relevant, yet otherwise finished up her silk cooling.

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Clay said, “And in the Gold Winglet, we have Firebug, Sandpiper, and Aurora. Sorry, we only have three other students, so until another one arrives, we have only 3 in the Gold Winglet.” Clay waited for some of the students to say if they were there.

rose was still about to fall asleep .

mango kept sleeping next to nightfall.

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"Here!" Aurora said, once she heard Clay call her name.

Firebug nodded, remembering that MudWings lived with their siblings more than their parents. "How many siblings do you have? Is the one you mentioned earlier...uh, Moss, I think? Is she the bigwings?" The hybrid wondered what it would be like to have so many siblings. He didn't have any; it was just him and his parents back on Pantala. Hearing Clay call his name, he briefly turned to call out, "I'm here!" before going back to Crocodile.

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Wintergreen shook her head slightly, her spikes rattling softly. "Even so, you clearly have great control and I wouldn't have ever thought to use it on my scratches." She looked back at Spiri with a smile. "It's really neat, honestly. Do you have frostbreath, too?" Shifting a little to make the hybrid's job easier, she briefly glanced up at Clay's words. There was Sandpiper, who was right next to them of course, a dragonet named Aurora who looked like a NightWing, and Firebug, a red and black dragonet that she pinned as possibly a HiveWing.

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Sandpiper frowned. Venus was taking too long to answer questions that should have rolled off her tongue like her own name. Although she had gotten the answers right, there was something that told him she wasn't okay. He was about to say something when she groaned, almost beginning to growl, and he winced and rested a wing on her shoulder in comfort. After quickly responding, "here!" to Clay, Sandpiper returned his attention to the clearly hurt Night-RainWing in front of him. "Venus," he started, keeping his wing around her to steady her, "I think you might have gotten a concussion from that fall. It's nothing too serious - pretty much everyone gets back to normal after one - but it is still pretty painful and delicate. We should figure out who's in charge of medicine here. And you should probably lie down for now," Sandpiper said, gently pulling his wing away. "Just lie down and close your eyes until the meeting's over, and then we can get you some help. I'm sorry," he added, lying down himself. "It's probably gonna hurt quite a bit until we get you sorted out. It won't be too long now, I hope."

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Spiri had almost forgotten about her frostbreath. "Yeah...it's nothing like my freezesilk, though. Just huge ice crystals everywhere. It's useless and impossible to control, but it's there." She stepped back, letting her raised wrist rest back down onto the stone, and pushed herself into a sitting position. She'd finished with the freezesilk. It should soothe the wounds for a while, and at least stop infection before it melted. Hopefully by then a proper healer would have seen to it. Not that the crystals from her freezesilk melted easily; they were nothing like normal ice.

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Venus clutched her head a moment longer before speaking. "It's not that.. This happens some times, but I never remember what I sa-" The dragon broke off, her eyes becoming hazy. Or more hazy, as they were already a little out of focus. Her claws fell from her snout, and she sat up straight, looking forwards without expression. A few, whispered words fell from her mouth. "Purest Queen.. Silken cold... Hopeless seer... Turned to stone..." After a moment, she gasped, then laid down quickly, panting. She still seemed out of focus, as if she weren't fully back to her own mind.

"Oh yes! There's six of us including me!" said Crocodile, happy to talk about his beloved siblings. "No, Moss isn't our bigwings," he let out a small chuckle. "She's the next biggest though. Let's see there's Squelch - he's our bigwings, and Moss, Cow, Stork, and Swamp!" He said, listing his siblings off on his talons. "I'm the smallest but Cow is the last hatched."

Nightfall gently set Mango down by Rose so he wouldn’t wake her; then went onto a bench nearby. He was near Spiri and the others but mostly ignored them, not looking at them. He listened to what Clay was saying, but was sorta off in his own world. He knew that his winglet had the most clawmates, and tried not to think about that.

rose leaned onto the wall and fanilly fell asleep.

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"Oh wow, there are a lot of you," Firebug replied, imagining six more Mudwings about the same size and color as Crocodile. "I haven't got any siblings at all, so I have no idea what that would be like." He chuckled. Six little black-and-red hybrids running amok? His parents would go nuts trying to keep track of them all! "How exactly does the bigwings thing work, by the way?" While Firebug understood that the bigwings of a sibling group was usually the first hatched, biggest, and leader of the pack, he wasn't sure if there were other things that went along with it.

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Wintergreen smiled. "Hard to control, maybe, but I don't know about useless. If you found such a great way to use your silk, then I bet you could figure something out for the crystals, too!" She relaxed her posture a little as Spiri pulled away. "Thank you so much," the IceWing said, feeling the silk soothe the many cuts she'd sustained. "It's really, really nice." She was about to continue when she heard Venus collapse and she gasped. "Venus?! Are you okay?" She placed a cool talon gently on her friend's shoulder. The hybrid just spoken in a voice that didn't sound like it was hers at all.

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Sandpiper's eyes widened as Venus suddenly snapped to attention. A queen? Cold...someone turned to stone? What on earth was that supposed to mean? As the hybrid suddenly seemed to come out of it, he slipped his shoulder under her to keep her from hitting the floor again. Although part of the problem seemed to have been....whatever that was, he still wasn't totally convinced that the dragonet hadn't been hurt by the fall from earlier. "Venus? Can you hear me?" Sandpiper asked in a calm, gentle voice. He lifted his gaze to Spiri and Wintergreen, sending them a look of comfort.

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Wintergreen met the Sand-SeaWing's gaze and felt herself calm down slightly. Were those the prophecy powers that she had mentioned? Purest queen, silken cold, hopeless seer, turned to stone...she tried not to glance at Spiri. Silken cold sounded a lot like the sweet Silk-IceWing next to her was involved. Who was the purest queen, though? Perhaps...Queen Thorn? Chosen by the amulet, free from the toxic bloodline of past SandWing queens? Or maybe it was talking about Queen Glory, who had become ruler in order to save the RainWings and NightWings. Wintergreen had no ideas for the last two parts, however, unless "turned to stone" had something to do with Stonemover, Sunny's father. She shivered. Exactly how complicated was her life about to become? And yet...she felt incredibly lucky to be the one by Venus's side. "Hey Venus, you okay? You're alright, we've got you. Don't worry," Wintergreen said softly, folding her wing over the clearly disoriented dragonet.

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Nightfall heard something that sounded like a prophecy. Well, prophesies were always bad. He tried not to think about that. He did realize though, that it was his fault that the other two dragons had gotten hurt.

Two RainWings came in. They asked, “What happened?” Clay and the other three Dragonets of Destiny were looking nervous and worried for Venus.

Venus seemed to come to after a few moments of silence and stillness. "Wh-what did I say..?" Waking up fully from the trance, she realized how heavily she was leaning on Sandpiper and stammered something out, although her voice was suddenly extremely quiet, nearly impossible to hear. Her color had shifted as well, and was now fluttering between a series of reds and purples, as well as darker greens and browns. She seemed to be trying to fix her scales so she might be the same celestial dragonet she had been earlier, but to no avail. Eventually, she settled on a navy blue, with gold highlights here and there. It really made her pop out, even though she was really just trying to get her bearings.

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Nightfall looked over his shoulder. He seemed really worried about what was happening, and he felt really bad about it. He didn’t like it when people got hurt, especially because of him. This happened even without animus magic. If his soul grew bad, he could probably just kill someone whenever he wanted. He wouldn’t do that though. He wasn’t a bad dragon. He shook his head to get the thought out, and then continued looking over his shoulder.

Spiri, concerned, left Wintergreen for the dragon her friend was caring for. The RainWing/NightWing looked awful confused, and Spiri had no idea what to think. She'd heard briefly from the NightWings of the Rainforest that they'd supposedly had superpowers, those of reading minds and seeing the future...but she'd also heard those were mythical. Nothing but lies spread to shock the other Pyrrhian tribes to fear and respect them...Yet still, Spiri was unfamiliar with Pyrrhian dragons just now...it just may be.

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[See previous post for Firebug.]

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Wintergreen wrapped her wing more tightly around Venus's side, pressing her cool scales against her friend in an effort to comfort her. Though she'd only known the dragonet for a day, she didn't want her new friend to suffer. "Don't worry about that now," the IceWing said, watching the hybrid's scales flash every color of the rainbow. "There's time to think about that later. Right now, what's important is making sure you're okay." Wintergreen watched as Venus's scales rippled into a deep navy, speckled and lined with gold. It wasn't the same nebula as before, but it was calm, more composed. She smiled softly and hoped that her cold scales were comforting rather than irritating to the dragonet.

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Continuing to support the slightly smaller dragonet, Sandpiper watched as Venus attempted to stabilize the colors flowing through her scales. While the kind Icewing comforted her friend, he glanced up to notice Clay, a couple of Rainwings, Sunny, Tsunami, who had arrived as some point along with Starflight, and especially Nightfall looking over at the scene with concern. Raising his voice just loud enough for the other dragons to hear, he addressed them. "Don't worry, everyone, she's alright. Just a bit disoriented from the crash earlier. We'll take care of her," the Sand-Seawing announced calmly. However, once he was sure the other dragons weren't so focused on the little group, he sent a look to the Dragonets of Destiny that said, "We need to talk about this later." Turning his attention back to the dragonets around him, he, too, placed a warm wing around the troubled Night-Rainwing. Sandpiper noticed Spiri looking shocked and confused, though Wintergreen seemed alright, and entirely focused on helping Venus. The Sand-Seawing quietly stretched out his free wing to brush it against Spiri's. "Let's just take it slow," he murmured, glancing over Venus's head to where the Silk-Icewing was standing and giving her a small smile. "We'll work this out together, one step at a time."

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Nightfall felt really bad. He picked up a small pebble, then whispered to himself, “When this pebble touches Venus, she will be healed.” He tossed the pebble, which then hit Venus. He was sure that this was going to work. He enchanted it and made it really specific.