un: flying high

[sansdoute]

( Irrespective of faction, enjoy a first-hand look at infamous Eidris dragon warlord Cain d'Ubiq — young-sounding, frazzled, distracted. Behind him, a rare martial dragon sprawls out. )

...hello? No one's spoken to me, I'm... I'm who they send. When it's... when everything's gone to... when there's a need for fire. I'm who they send. Cain d'Ubiq. I ride with Praxeus. ( The dragon peeks up a broad head, then calmly descends it. )

It was... the girl. The fair-haired one. She went to Remembrance. Didn't you? Winnie? Hello? Couldn't... couldn't stop laughing. So they remembered and — turns out more people with... interesting... passports entered Serthica when she did. You did. All of you. It's how we found — ...well. Well, I haven't told them. Him, Chrichter. He's... got a temper. You didn't help it, ruining his people's home. The walls. You took... where did they go? You took all of them? The dolls out of their house. He won't like that. But I think, if you're going to playing his game, there's something you should know.

( A sound between a bitter chuckle and a sob. ) ...no. You won't believe it if — ...no one does. You'll have to see. Some of you went with me, didn't you? Flying. I remember. You were... you didn't delay us. In the Sibilant Sands. Do you know why we call them that? When we flew together, we were lucky with the weather. Even though someone said it'd sour, it — sometimes, whirlwinds rise, and it sound like great hissing and — .

..look. 51.481° N, 3.4694° E. Go there. I've sent a few dragons to the ports. You'll find... bones. Fallen dragon bones. Hollowed. From the... from five years ago. You'll find them. They're always... there was no way. To take them back after the war, they were too heavy. And there are scales. Left over. Should be, one or two — ... at least one dragon eye. They turn almost to stone, when they've fallen. If you want to peek, take a scale. If you want to see... bring an eye back. It's all I'll say. You have to see it.

( ooc: Cain will answer here and there, but check out this handy post, if you want to take part in this optional quest. )

Comments

[blackscales]

How long were you gone? The 'Coal Sick', when you returned after the rain, they said it was cured?

[sansdoute]

...it was years ago. Do you... do you just... remember everything to detail, just to spew, years later, when someone wants to — why does no one ever believe me?

[blackscales]

I believe you, I only ask to help myself understand. We only want to help, many of us have experience in these things. The dark water that is used here, on the mannequins? We have seen it before.

[sansdoute]

...what? Was it... do other... places suffer as we... how many?

[blackscales]

Not the same, but they do suffer. We managed to help them, and if you can tell us what you know perhaps we might help you.

[sansdoute]

I've told you. There's more nothing to... just do it.

[blackscales]

[ ... Is he talking to himself or still addressing Wrathion? He wouldn't put talking to himself past the young man, at this point. ]

Just do what? Retrieve the dragon parts?

[ He'll leave picking through dragon corpses to someone else, thank you.

... Although: ]

You flew out to fight in the sands before the plague was cured, yes? Were Eidris and Minaris already at war, then? Or were you fighting something else?

[ He thought the war began after the cure, after all. ]