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Her home in the mountains, a lair in snow and ice and stone. Traps guard her entrance to anyone unwelcome, more traps guard her treasure. The dragon has immense amounts of treasure, being an older dragon and having had lots of time to gether such. She has returned to her lair because of the fact she chose to leave the clan upon learning about her daughter's supposid true heritage.

There is a chill, but a room is set aside that is warm for a guest or three should she chose to have one over she doesn't plan on eating later.

Once she touched down in her lair, where she was safer and could relax, she changed back to her humanoid form and started her story. "We can continue, yes." She relaxed against a wonderful pile of ice cubes.

"There was a time I was with a Rhennee man," she said. "We were together some time, and even the Vashra could not see past my disguise. Time was spent, I was known as flighty, never staying all the time, coming and going as I pleased, yet the Rhennee man still loved me, or at least claimed such. We had a child, a daughter."

"Rhennee are matriachal more than not, so our daughter was next in line to be Vashra. I could never be such, being an outsider, but through her I could. Could rule a powerful clan of Verbabonc," she said. "But her heart was born light, born to sing. She left when she was only ten years old to seek her own path. I had to let her go, or else give up my identiy if I had fought it. But I left when I realized that the Rhennee clan itself had tricked me."

"They were not only protected by other dragons, but their line was polluted by some Tome Dragon blood!" she exclaimed. "In a fury I left, but realized how my daughter's blood was tainted with two. That cannot be, all dragons look down against the muddling of the draconic bloodlines. So she...she must become a pure in her draconic blood, with my kind's blood or not at all! If I can make her blood pure white, my hold will be definite, and the clan will be mine, that power mine to command. You've seen my daughter...naive, gullible...easy to control."

"That one child, Yuko, has the blood of gold dragons within her...and as you saw, there was a pureblood tome dragon...that stupid bard's master..." she growled.

"It is to me, stupid blood of a dragon of knowledge and magic, that's all they are, the most arcane oriented of all the dragons! Tome Dragons are not children of Tiamet, the mother of us...Chromatics," she said, puffing up with pride. "My white dragon bretherin are usually to stupid to think outside the box to acomplish goals of power, but I...I broke the norms, and I will have what I want."

"...its not just a mere blood feud," she said. "For my daughter to survive within this realm anytime she comes to visit...or if she returns to live here, her draconic blood needs to be one type, pure, not mixed. That...is what makes it so vital to purify...to have her choose a blood...there is a ritual to change her blood. I assume they are using it to make her blood pure in one way or another."

"Of course, I will not let my dreams be wasted. She wouldn't harm her mother...have you ever seen her hate someone? There's not a bone of that in her body," she said easily.

"I don't have a library here but I know where one is, a good one too. I can take you there if you wish," she said. "But sleep would be good. I have need to recover much."

The second attack woudn't be for a while, it would take some time for her to prepare...and when Chris was in the Rhennee camp...the Vashra was strongest. She didn't want to end things before they'd begun. She had her plan.

"I shall come morning," she said. "Whatever the library could tell you I suppose." She shrugged. "Night." She had no clue what he'd find, but hey, at the least he could.

"They won't be able to do the ritual just yet," she said, not going into more detail. Her eyes flashed. "I can still...use her...it just wouldn't be the same...it would be more powerful if she were of my blood. Tiamet would smile upon that."

"Are you ready to go? I will be flying you to the outskirts of Verbabonc City, the library there should suit your needs," she said. "For whatever research you think will help."