Now long before Lyra had met up with her teacher in that forest
she had been a happy child in a mountain city named
Paraxa Duul,which had been a fairly cosmopolitan place
where humans,were-anthrodragons,elves,dwarves and goblins
managed to interact reasonably well,with minimal fights.
Her family had been established Advocate-Mediators for
generations in Paraxa-Duul,helping to smooth out the sparks
of discontent that naturally occurred when one sentient species
had to interact with other sentient species.
So the betrayl of the Daemos Council by weredragon
Councillor Draeko to his allies the feral dragons ,much bigger
and savage dragons had swiftly led to that long ago horrible
day of chaos,carnage and bloodshed and ash when the legions of invading dragon monsters had swept in from all directions
to conquer the mountain city.
Councillor Draeko had earlier sabatoged the citys aerial
defense wind lances by having his weredragon agents soak the
drawchainropes of the windlances in rags soaked in water
overnight,which had meant when the dragon invaders had
swept in from all aerial sides,the windlances could barely throw
a bolt 20 dragon wing lengths,let alone the 600 dragonwing length
range they normally were capable of.
So child Lyra had watched the destruction of her city from the safety of a wooden trunk her terrified parents had hid her in before going to their doom.
Their house had caught on fire under the flaming breath
of a big female dragon monster and if Lyra hadn't started screaming from inside the trunk that would have been the end of Lyra.
Instead she'd heard a beastial roar and then the sounds of the house being torn apart around her as something big,winged and scaley and female burst through the walls,yanked the wooden trunk out of the burning house and tored open the trunk lid with sharp powerful talons.
Lyra the child had gazed apon her rescuer,the huge feral monster dragoness who had started the house fire in the first place.
What Lyra had remembered as a child was the monsters total
blackness,total light absorption of her black dragon scales
and the scale patterns on the beasts belly scutes,unique.
And the monsters look of recognition and shock apon gazing apon Lyra the child.
And now as Lyra the anthro weredragoness gazed apon herself in the chambers pool of water she gasped,as she realized her black scales were blacker then black,and she had a unique scale
pattern to her belly scutes identical to the feral dragoness who
had rescued her from the flames of Paraxa Duul so long ago