Welcome to Gaia! ::

**you've given them a lot to think about, but such ingrained prejudices will be hard to root out with just one lecture... You haven't won them over by a long shot, but you have given them food for thought... which is usually the start of a very long process.**

The third, up to now silent, dragoness uncurls and gives herself a stretch. She is ancient and obvious wise. But not along the lines Kero wishes. Still she pins with with a look and sighs. "It is not the red we are worried about, Kerobian, Voidmage Master, Plane Jumper... " (ah, this one seems to know a bit about you, perhaps even more than the others...) "But our young and the young of our young... In many ways it is a shame she is locked in that form... She should have been one of ours, but would have beens and might have beens do not reality make. We worry because there is something in the make up of the chromatics that lead them down the road to evil... not all of it is the affect of their parenting.... Some receive no parenting at all, while others have very good parenting... as far as parenting goes. She was misborn, true... but does she have to live here?" She sighs again and looks at the others. "We have things we need to be doing, ladies, and much to think about. Thank you Void Master for bringing this knowledge to us."

Igniska sighs and gives him a gentle peck on the cheek. "C'ei, not everything can be solved with threats. Some of their fears are valid. My kind have always had it in for yours... you know that. The only thing that keeps them from coming after me here is that they don't know where I am. If they did, they'd be out after my neck and heck if they managed to snag a few of your kin in the process, all the better. If they find out, I could start a war between dragons... Your father has acknowledged this to me personally, but he's also told me he wants me to stay... Trouble is, is my happiness worth a bloodbath?"

Igniska looks down at her feet. "I don't feel any different and how does it work, will it make me so that people who don't like me but need to work with me can't see me as me either. I was training for an important job, to help run and maintain the draconic libraries at the dome of government. Since Paladine decided to allow the various clan leaders to govern the valley as a whole apart from his interferance, sticking only to the moral aspect of leadership, Hlal-son asked to be allowed to renovate and restore the ruins... and Paladine gave hi permission to do so except for one sealed hall, the one where the betrayal took place. I think he goes there from time to time alone, to be at the spot where he lost his mate..."

"Ugh..." she grumbles but she doesn't look angry. "Now I'm a non-entity, not even worthy of notice. Oh well, if it keeps the piece I guess I can put up with a life of being ignored."

She smiles at him and turns to head for Paladine's cave. "Well, you still need to present yourself and it might be that your Dad can figure out how he's marked me. I know you do think it matters, but I kind of want to know. I'd like to know what limitations I might have."

"Luciel! Get your soon to be warmed sorry hide in here...."

The roar sounds genuinely angry and Igniska begins to worry, but Luciel just laughs and pats her on the shoulder.

"He's not angry... iffin he was angry he wouldn't be yelling at me. Dad goes awfully quiet when he's mad and the softer he speaks the angrier he is. It's almost as if he purposefully wants you to strain to hear him... because iffin yer doing that, yer listening. Sounds kind of twisted, but it works... I remember a two hour lecture all in a sub whisper... word fer word."

Paladine grins at him, then nods to Igniska as she follows the younger dragon into the room.

"Welcome back and take a seat, both of you... by the fire... tell me, Luciel, how was you trip... I hear you visited Alysian Moonspeaks realm again... I do hope we aren't going to get called on to retify a rash of pink flowers again."

E'li chuckles wisely. "You really don't know your other side very well then do you. Child of my heart. You come from mischievious stock and a troublemaker by blood. Trust me. He may look golden but his blood is pure cupric. Kero has caused more trouble all in the name of fun, than he's ever done for any other reason."