Location:Starforge Nexus Pavilion / Jayde's private courtyard
Date/Time:Late Ashbloom, 9940 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm (Pavilion sub-space)
The wyrmlings were trying to become human.
Jayde watched from the garden wall as Tianxin concentrated — the eldest wyrmling's snout scrunched, her wings pressed flat against her body, her golden eyes squeezed shut with the intensity of a creature attempting something her mother had expressly forbidden. The air around Tianxin shimmered. Her scales flickered — silver to skin-tone and back, the colours cycling like a formation trying to find its frequency.
The shift happened all at once. One moment: dragon. The next: a toddler. Roughly. The face was there — round, silver-haired, golden-eyed, the features a miniature echo of Yinxin's human form. The body was there — small, pudgy, sitting on the grass in a posture that suggested the legs were new and the creature wearing them hadn't yet decided whether they were an improvement.
