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[pterosaur]

[The writing’s in what looks like marker. She’s got a really fat marker in hand, but since her journal is larger than normal, the script looks like it’s written in a more standard-sized marker, and it’s only a little larger than average. The writing itself is somewhat clumsy and awkward. It would seem to be in all caps except that capital letters are definitely taller than the others.]

So yeah. I’m Above.  I think I had the wrong dream.

[There’s a pause and some blotches. Hard to tell if they’re false starts or pentaps.]

I don't suppose there are any more azhdarchid pterosaurs here?  If you are, you've been hiding very well.  ["azhdarchid" may translate as "dragon", "Pterosaur" may stay or turn into something like "winged finger lizard".]  Apple says I'm the first one he's seen.

This place is crazy.

[She can't think of anything else - she has no idea what she should say - so she puts her tag, the arrowlike shape from her dream.  It's not as symmetrical and crisp as this, but you get the idea.]

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[dragonking.livejournal.com]

The wrong dream?

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

[So other people can see it. She'd seen the writing on other pages, but half expected that hers wouldn't... broadcast, maybe.]

[So, should she say anything? She sort of is afraid of, sort of likes the idea that she's the only one... all right.]

Yeah. Whoever was doing the dreaming was human.

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

You are certain of this? It was not just a figment of the dream?

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

The butterfly story? Don't know. But it was a little surprising.

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

Dreams are not commonly known to make sense.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

I still feel completely disconnected from her. It's all at a remove.

[All right, this wasn't true immediately after hatching, and it's only subsequently that Above started building that detachment, but she's not so given to self-reflection that she's aware of that.]

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

Dreams about floating gold doors are also quite surreal. It is what your instinct tells you that is important.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

I don't want to be whoever that was. [True at the moment.] She couldn't even fly.

Do you have a name? [She will totally make something up if he doesn't tell her.]

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

A pity, but that is the unfortunate truth for humans.

Yes. I am Tian.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

You say that like you're not human either.

[Above is blessed with an erractically excellent memory for trivia; unfortunately she is more versed on French stuff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Tian) than Chinese.] Like the earthenware?

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

I'm not. [the pen is pressed hard at the period, as if he wants to make the denial of this possibility perfectly clear]

Earthenware? No. Like the sky, cosmos, home of the gods.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Huh.

So: can you fly?

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[Well, he never actually tried, but his instincts says he can.]

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm the one who's [What color is she? Hmm... Red and black and white and purple and orange and yellow and... oy.]

apparently been colored in by a five-year-old who wants to use all her crayons.

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

I see. How [pause] interesting.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of garish. I'd have picked a better colorscheme, but no one asked.

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

[pentaps - waiting for your point. Srs dragon cares not about your jokes.]

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

[And now we bring middle-school everyone-is-judging-me defensiveness into it...]

I don't care about [scribble - she does have a little self-censoring, enough to know that finishing with "what you think", however satisfying, is inflammatory] how I look. This is what I am, whether I've always been like this or it's just here.

[dragonking.livejournal.com]

You assume that I have an opinion of either. Only you can be the judge of who and what you are.

[notpissedoff]

More likely, you just require some context for your dream.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

I'd need a lot of context to explain this.

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

Hello, Above! My name's Krile.

What kind of dragon is a pterosaur? We do have other dragons here, but I don't know if they're that kind.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Hi.

[Of course, she doesn't know about the language geas.] No, pterosaur. We're big flying reptiles covered in fuzz. [Should she have written "they", she wonders.]

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

[...okay she'll just stick with 'pterosaur' then. Even though big flying reptile still = dragon.]

Gosh, I've never heard of a dra reptile that was fuzzy. But you have hands?

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Yes, but no teeth, and not much tail. And no fire or armored scales or horns, either.

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

How do you

Sorry, I'm being rude! Were you just hatched?

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

The other day ago. You guys really use an elevator?

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's inside the treetrunk. I know that sounds impossible, but you got it right when you said this place was crazy.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'm not sure I could fit into one of those... Well, I can fly, anyway.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Any more whats?

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

Azhdarchid pterosaurs. Not sure what kind; there's a mess of species in the family. Think Pterodactyl, but longer-necked, toothless, better at walking, and bigger.

You'd know one if you saw it.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Or if you told me what the hell I'm supposed to have seen, other than "Like this other thing but different." There's plenty of weird shit, don't mean we care what it's all called.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

[Why does she want to get upset about this? Names are a human concern anyway; she only picked one to use with them.]

Fine. Seen any storks built like giraffes with a little bat added in? [He knows what those are, she hopes.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Nah, but there's plenty of weird animals at the stables and farm.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

The buildings on the two big wooded islands. Maybe I'll put down and ask them.

[The griffins will hate that but hey, there are few people consistently there who can effectively protest.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Might be good. I know they got some Chocobos- Long-necked chickens, sort've. Big wolves, though, so watch out for that.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, they've got to have food for them.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. They might not like it if you up and take their food, though.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

You think so?

Yeah, I know. Not like I could take anything that wasn't left outside, anyway.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Stealing shit generally doesn't go over too well.

What do you eat? There's a lake that's got tons've fish in it. [Guessing, since she said she was a stork.]

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

I know about the fish. But there was frost last night, and it's fall. If it gets cold enough to freeze, I have to go somewhere else.

Don't know what else. [Well. Part of her did respond to seeing a passed-out Charger with "too big to eat", but oh god that's a disgusting thought.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Then check out the damn market. The hell do you think it's there for?

[crowsloveapples.livejournal.com]

Above! You're using your journal!

[dur chibi]

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

I am! Who are you? [Guessing...] Apple?

[crowsloveapples.livejournal.com]

Yup it's me! This is what my handwriting looks like so memorize it ok!

[it's a childish but neat handwriting of someone who was educated to at least a fourth grade level, in a school that really emphasized penmanship]

I like your picture.

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

You memorize every set of handwriting you see here?


Thanks. It's my tag - it means "I was here".

[crowsloveapples.livejournal.com]

Well I try--I forget sometimes but then I just want for someone else to talk to the person and I try to figure it out from there.

Oh. What's a tag?

[azhdarchidae.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.

It's like a signature. It is a signature, really, but it doesn't need to have any letters.