How long had she been curled up in this small cave? The cold was dastardly and evil to such a young creature. Her scales could hardly handle the earliest cold and the normal chill of the mountains. Her green, plant like scales could hardly handle it then. Throughout the latest months she’d found herself a cave. A nice little cave. One that kept her safe from the chilling wind and brutal snow. She slept, and slept hard. She had always been a deep sleeper. This pseudo hibernation ended when sharp hunger stabbed through her. While she could feast upon sunlight as well as a plant could, it didn’t truly sate a growing baby dragon. Plants stored energy by the means of photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. There was only so long a plant could stay in darkness before they wilted, after all. Groggily Sanzu awoke from several months of sleeping, and stumbled out into the mid day light.

Sunlight hitting her scales warranted the processes of automatic photosynthesis to kick into gear. It would be a while before any energy truly was gathered, and she knew that she would need to find some other source of food in the meanwhile. The little dragon had grown in her absence, standing a solid foot taller than she had before disappearing. Her wings, too, had grown - but still were too small for flight to fully be achieved. Her claws scrabbled along as she went rushing back into camp. Her mind was muddled by post hibernation hunger, and it was a near frenzy to find something edible. Soon she managed to snatch some poor, practically discarded fish from a passerby and sunk her teeth in. There wasn’t too much left, but it was enough to ease up the initial burst of hunger. It allowed the thought of wishing it had been cookies, but a beggar certainly was not a chooser. She chewed on the bone briefly before raising her head up higher. More alert and more aware, her large ears wriggled and rose up. “Um. How longs I’vsa been sleepin’?” Sanzu softly asked, a lost look creeping up onto her face.

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Most would likely be intimidated by something so large coming towards them. It could be considered a natural instinct, or a learned behavior. It was to no surprise that the youth shuffled a step backwards - but not much more than that mere step. Her head craned up, the bone still being chewed on between her sharp teeth. There was no terror present in Sanzu's red eyes, but rather bewilderment. This person was so fluffy! The bone was dropped from her jaws and she began bouncing in an ever playful mannerism. "I'mmsa Sanzu!" She happily stated upon the other's statement of her name. She was affirming that yes, that was her name, and a nod of her head followed her words. Small wings flapped rapidly back and forth. "Pe'sona? Does th' mean birdie? Big birdie! Big birdie!" Happy chatters came from the little dragon's maw. Her body lowered and wriggled, snatching up the bone in her jaws to try and scrape more sustenance from. By no means was her jaws powerful enough to snap through bone. Hunger prompted her to try nonetheless. Large ears remained perked, tail swinging behind her in a manner that added to her childish yet playful stance. Sanzu was not scared by someone being so much bigger than her. If anything, her childish claims of 'big birdie' cemented her thoughts of the persona that had approached her.

Sanzu's ears swiveled to take note of Rin's approach. The bone again fell from her jaws, and her wings aided a sudden bounce forward towards the Magna. "I'unno what 'n Octyob'r 's but maybe tha's right." Sanzy answered after a brief thought. Dates were not able to be understood by such a young child. The concept went right over her head. Hearing three months seemed to answer it for her - although it was debatable if Sanzu really understood what a 'three' was. Her long tail lowered and swung absently behind her. Her attention again perked when food and water was offered. "Pyease, pyease!" She chattered. Sanzu swiftly bounded closer to the Magna's side, and probably would have continued bouncing around if hunger didn't again remind her of her stance in nutrition with a ferocious growl. A small giggle sounded, and her wide red eyes looked up at the other. "I'mmsa good t' walk! I c'n walk real good!" The green dragon insisted. Her wings flapped a few times before again coming to a rest by her sides, settled from stretching out. Sleeping for so long had crafted many dull aches. Bouncing around like Sanzu was currently was a sure fire way to stretch after three long months of hibernation. The young dragon was as happy as ever, a grin on her maw as she awaited to follow Run to where food and water would be.

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Sanzu was a very easily distracted youth. Such made sense. She was young, and her attention was all over the place. It wasn't helped by the fact that she had been hibernating for three months straight. Despite being hungry, she was restless. The young dragon wanted to sprint around the territory a few times to stretch out her limbs. Her claws kneaded into the ground, ears perked to listen to the newest one to approach. Did she know him? No. Did that really matter to her? Such was also a no. "I'mmsa Sanzu!" She happily declared her name again, even though the other already knew her name - and had even changed it's pronunciation into a nickname. A question was asked of her, about how she'd slept. Sanzu's face scrunched up, as if having to dedicate a lot of thought into her response. "Uh. Good! I slep' pre'y good! Didn' wake up once. Kinda chilly though. An' hungry! I'mmsa very very very very hungry!" A rapid session of nodding her head followed suit. Her stomach rumbled and complained that photosynthesis wasn't happening fast enough. Of course it wasn't - water was needed for photosynthesis to truly happen, and the little dragon had not drank in the better part of three entire months.

Sanzu had begun to toddle off after Lemy, but Nemhain was moving a whole lot quicker. "Fen...fenh...c'n I jus' say big birdie? I c'n't say that super duper big word," Sanzu then said. Her ears briefly lowered, seeming disdained by her own words. She had tried, really, to say the species. It didn't curl easily from the youth's maw, but she had tried nonetheless. Her expression swiftly rose when again she was asked what her favorite food was. "I really really like cookies! 'N fish! Cookie and fish and cookie and fish, they're the bestest bests!" Sanzu's attitude swiftly lifted back to joy, and she was bouncing along again. Her ears were raised up high again, delight glimmering in her vibrant eyes. Her attention rapidly flickered between the three that had come to greet here upon awaking from her hibernation. "C'n I plyease please have cookie an' fish! I'mmsa very very hungry!" The young dragon had enough manners to say please, at least. Her claws were kneading at the ground again, wings again going sprawling from her sides with little control.

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Sanzu’s pace was pretty quick for someone who had been sleeping for three months. It was a deep need being fulfilled, to hop about and stretch her limbs that had not been used for an extended period of time. Her wings occasionally shot out from her sides and began rapidly flapping. They didn’t generate much lift. The limbs of question were still too small in order to allow her to actually lift off the ground. Stretching was what the rapid movements actually accomplished. Her tail swung rapidly behind her as she followed behind Rin and Lemy and Nemhain. Small talons struggled to keep up, but the young dragon was not deterred in the slightest. “Who’s Valerian? They like cookies? W should bake all th’ cookies! When c’n we make cookies?” Sanzu then asked. She had gone three entire months without any interaction due to hibernation. People had come and gone. Sanzu, sadly, was not aware of such due to her childish nature.

When a carp was set before the small dragon, Sanzu had to take a moment to fully grasp the size of the sustenance being provided to her. Her claws curled around the fish and she tugged it closer to her. “Why a qyualm?” She briefly asked. As usual, her awkward pronunciations got in the way, but her question most managed to make sense nonetheless. Nem worked too. It as a lot shorter than ‘big birder’ was. She nodded her head, agreeing with the name that she decided to use. When Nemhain left the little dragon finally sunk her teeth into the fish that she had been provided. Enough distractions! She was absolutely starving, and couldn’t stand to stare at the food and not eat for a moment longer! Her red eyes widened and hastily she began to rip into the fish with frenzy. Any person with as much hunger as the youth was experiencing would likely do the same. Talons curled around the fish as if afraid someone would try to take it from her - or to simply hold it still. Sanzu made swift work of the fish.

Slowly she slumped down upon practically reducing the kill to mere bones. “Isss good fish,” Sanzu mumbled, seeming content with the food that had been provided to her. The fluffy end of her tail absently swung behind her. Her scales had been pale due to the lack of energy poured into them and the lack of photosynthesis occurring over the course of three months. They certainly did begin to brighten up slowly as energy was reclaimed from the fish. Her head perked up a little after a few seconds of rest - undoubtedly facing brief exhaustion from munching down a large meal so swiftly. “Where’s Nine? ‘N Player? ‘N Kanga? ‘N eve’yone else?” The young dragon asked, red eyes flickering towards the Magna. A brief glance had been given to Lemy prior, and a toothy grin. She did want to know where her somewhat parental figures had gone, after all. Her innocent expression spoke for her, that she had no idea that there had been a raid, that people had left or died. Absently her claws fumbled with one of the carp’s bones.

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