Are there any blood relatives that your character is particularly close with, besides the immediate ones? Cousins, Uncles, Grandfathers, Aunts, et cetera. Are there any others that your character practically considers a blood relative?
A sea of piercing, ethereal blue considered the questioner for a long moment, the silence reaching a deafening pitch beneath the crackle of flame against wick. To put such thought into an answer.. It must have meant much to her.
“Long ago, an oracle in my tribe told me I would not be with them until the Fatessaw fit to close my eyes for the last time. A vision came to her of an orb of pitch, floating above a vast and endless sea. Like an immense egg, it fractured, and from the break flew dragons of many sizes, scales colored like gems plucked from rainbows and edged with a razor gleam, with teeth and claws dipped in molten metal, streaking across the heavens like summertime comets. The silver-blue dragon she always saw as symbolizing my spirit launched after them, and became one with the curtain of glittering stars. ‘A new family,’ she called it.”
Arctic eyes were glassy with the exploration of her memory. A few batting blinks saw her consciousness restored to the present, and like a gargoyle regaining animation, her head tilted a fraction to roll her gaze back toward the questioner with what she hoped was an amenable smile.
“I am convinced the vision was of the Midnight Pearl. While I am not particularly close to any of them, I consider them more impactful and important than any of my birth tribe proved to be.”
Lyria’s relationship with her extended family in the tribe was nonexistent beyond the necessary interactions pressed upon them by community events and rituals. Those whom she works with now are more familiar to her than the Dravanian hedgewitches ever were. None of them hold a deep sway with her yet, save perhaps for C’kyza, Cotota, and Khenbish, for each of whom she holds a unique regard beyond professional associative courtesy.
