Post Four
By: Alith
Kisa skimmed through the thick upper branches of the old oak forest. Just below her flew the bloodthirsty black dragon, Tirrage ((prounced=
TEAR-ahsh)). He was the bastard that had killed her family and had kept Kisa as another one of his many rare baubles, along with her opal crystal that allowed her to shape shift.
Clutching the cyrstal close to her chest as she raced through the trees, thanking Whoever's up there that Tirrage was too big to navigate these upper branches or she would have been dead by now. A bauble is only interesting till it bites....and Kisa had done just that.
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For the last three years Kisa had sat up an this shelf in her gilded cage. Toted out with all of the rest of Tirrage's pretty rareties. She growled softly to herself. Even if Tirrage thought she was now his meek little plaything, he would soon be surprised. Using
her newest magical spell that she had learned from watching Tirrage, she opened the gold rimmed glass door of the case that held her crystal and slowly helped it to drift over to her cage. Stretching
her thin clawed arm through the bars, she snatched it out of the air and hid it under her scant bedding in a corner, then conjured an illusion of the crystal in the case, locked the glass door and swept up the traces of her magic.
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As expected, Tirrage swept into the room with a new "friend" to have his afternoon tea. Also as expected, he brought Kisa down off her shelf and took her out of her cage so that he could show her off. As usual assuming that Kisa was cowed by him and would never attempt to get away.
The first thing that Kisa had ever learned was never to assume anything. As soon as Tirrage opened the door, Kisa took off out the window, crystal in claw.
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Coming out of her reverie, Kisa realized that she had finally lost Tirrage after almost three straight days of flying and that she was coming up on a village. Landing at the edge of the forest, she concentrated on the crystal and changed into elven form.....it wasn't until she had reached the village that she realized how small she was compared to all the humans. Pocketing the crystal under her skirts, she proceeded to the first inn that she saw. Undeterred by her difference in height, she demanded a room with one of her opal scales as payment, she proceeded up to her room and lay down on the giant bed for some much needed rest.
