"It has been a year… An entire year…" Miri thought back to her journey from Luna Kingdom to her small time spent at the god of knowledge's library. Now she has been over plenty of land and gained plenty of experience, nothing her light studies at her kingdom library had prepared her for, yet nothing her last day in her kingdom had made it out to be like. She never expected to see the world so green in areas, it seemed almost alien to her. All her life and she had never seen any plants with such radiance and bright hues. 

She now entered an area she recognized from the stories of terrified travelers and injured merchants. the land was desolate and barren, the skies dark and stirring. She had went against her better judgement and continued along the lightly used pathway, the winds of the brewing storm heavy with it's own horrors and night terrors. Every twining pathway had a slightly different amount of wind, Miri thought it strange that the land had hundreds of storms blowing in different directions. Normally she would stop and analyse the heavy storms to investigate their sources and learn how to predict them, but today she was in a mood to explore now locations, not new wind formations.

She had heard rumor of a young dragon out around the area, she didn't want to investigate until she heard that the young lizard was actually an earth dragon. They were quiet rare and even hunted for as pets or slaves, she herself new how much it hurt to be hunted for her rarity, not to mention all the enemies Luna Kingdom made when they denied the freedom of knowledge. Not only did she want to find the dragon out of curiousness, but also for the hopes of protecting it, the rumor was spreading quickly and she had to hurry. 

Miri came to a large stone blocking the pathway, uncertain of what happened and where to go, Miri waited for a few minutes before freezing the rock. If she was going to get to the dragonling first then she would have to rush, she didn't care how many knew she was in the area. She shattered the rock with spikes of ice before continuing, ice trailing from her hair, her hood down and her armor coated in frost. She may have lost the curse when she gave the books to Drae, but she didn't want her rivals to know that, she kept her harsh gaze and heavy snow trail when out and about. Her eyes shown bright with the hued silver reflection of moonlight and her armor held the heavy frost of the snowy furies of the realms of ice. 

She walked and spoke loudly for anyone following or passing by, frost spiking out of the ground where she walked. "Now I understand… The truth, that is… Fate is a snowflake… and if your fate is near mine… I'll bring you down in an avalanche." She had no reason to let off her normal, happy and harmless side. she was in a land full of hostiles and thieves. Neither of which she would be pleased to have to throw around, especially when she had a time limit. 

The young dragon was chasing a rat across the area when she heard the loud talk of things she did not understand. What she had learned was that the creatures responsible for the words were usually willing to give food. The catch was that they also liked to try to catch her. She walked in the direction of the sound and stopped when she saw the trail of ice. her curiosity spiked and she walked over to it. she touched it and jumped back wondering if it would move. when it did not move she sniffed it. it had no smell so she decided to taste it. putting her tung to the ice was a bad idea. her tung got stuck to it. She started to cry out for help as she tried to get loose. Her white skin glowed a blue color as her neck stayed black.  

 "Huhh?" Miri turned around quickly and couldn't keep her serious tone, she fell to the ground laughing. She knew the poor dragon was in pain but it was so cute and funny. she melted the trail as she rolled around laughing. Unsure what to do when she recovered, she offered a few apples to the young lizard and watched curiously. "Cute little one.. aren't you?"

being able to move her tung was nice. She closed her mouth and looked at the woman, not happy that she was so amused at her pain. She debated on whether or not she should bite the elf and run off. but the woman was covered in ice and Aqua did not want to see if her teeth would freeze to her too. 

Cute? She knew that word and her mom always answered that the same way. "She is not as sweet as she looks" she stated like her mom says. copying is something she is really good at. but that was about it on languages. most she did not understand. She looked at the apple than at the woman. Quickly she crawled too one of the apples stood on her back paws and picked it up before running off and hiding with it. She looked at the woman and then back at the apple. she then took a bite as she sat there and looked around as she chewed and swallowed. She would repeat the proses for a while. after eating half the apple she put the 5 seeds in her mouth and laid down. She spread her wings to catch any light she could to digest the food.

She still watched the woman ready to grab the apple and move if she came near.

Mire felt terrible about laughing, not only because she made the dragon feel uncomfortable, but also because she realized it had been in a little pain. She set the other three apples down and turned away, sitting on a ledge and looking down at the heavy storms below. "Out of all the times in the past that I could have goofed off… Why did I do so here? Why didn't I let the ice trail melt without laughing?" She thought on the brief interaction for a while, furious with herself. 

When she looked back at the dragon she realized she must have been asleep or something, she blocked off the entrance to the area with a thick gate of ice and stood watch for the moment. They'd need to move if they were going to stay out of danger for the journey.

Aqua had not noticed the ice untell it was too late to escape. She got up and clawed at it as she tried her best to escape. but stopped and started walking in circles after her feet got cold. She started digging and dropped a seed in the hole. then laid down after giving up on escaping. She looked at the woman as she sat on her back feet and crossed her arms. She folded her wings tight against her back and let the ends of her mouth drop to a frown.

"svabol tir wux tuor?" she hissed. she doubted the woman would understand her but that was all she really knew and had no intentions of being nice. truthfully it was cute but she was not happy and would only get worse if laughed at.

     Miri noticed the somewhat displeased look the dragon was giving her and realized what she looked like she was trying. She frowned at the strange words and decided it would be better not to attempt asking for a translation, even if the young dragon could translate. She instead tried her best and spoke in ancient Luna elven.

    "Duna habdo renaa'vas?" In her language it meant "Will you let me help?" But Miri then stopped and took a moment to dispell the barrier and smiled gently before turning around and sitting off the side of the pathway. The mountain tail was steep and scorched by lightning, every storm seemed to hit thousands of times all over the place.

The whelp did not know what the woman said in the slightest and only got confused by the fact she let her fully free. Aqua looked up the path only to find that travel would be a very bad idea.  She returned to all four paws and tilted her head at the woman. She also realised that she was much too full to run. She again picked up the seeds and put them in her mouth before she started to walk up the path. just to run back after almost being struck by lightning.

Turi walks up to the unusual pair. "Hi there! You're a snow.. elf? You don't look like my kind… Awww, cute dragon!"