we're not the baddies! // AE visitors

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THE KINGPIN

golden lung dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo & platinum silver fox. god of war - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. formerly blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family. courting halo mercer. kingpin of alithís evgenis. demiromantic gray-asexual. parent of veris, arvin, leoku, erian, flos, kekhai, evarhi, laeglin, sloan and colwyn. elder brother of ramona and hope, uncle of quennel and cosette. (strike is deceased/unknown status)

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amusement filtered through the dragon, eyes watching wuyi carefully, close enough to move quickly should the child move too deep into the waters, ready to take xyr from danger. it had been forever since they had been here, longer even since they had been attacked by a half-sibling removed from the family tree and recognition, forgotten afterwards. shaking their head, they freed their thoughts, scenting the air for a nearby patrol. they remembered rumors of aquatic predators, and like the hells were they risking their ward. "wuyi, you silly child", they chuckled, the dragon getting up to walk to xyr side and groom the mud from the tufts of fur and hair upon xyr head, purring as they groomed it out, making xyr presentable. warmth blooming in their chest, they nudged the youth softly, assuring xyr wordlessly.

they had come here with a reason, grateful for the child to be there with them, for whatever it meant to others, it eased their worry over leaving xyr at home. oh yes, the candies they had. perhaps, the child would be lucky, and they could trade for something similar here. they had been out of the loop since the raid, and knew very little of what had happened in each group. setting down the panier that they carried in their jaws, the dragon turned their head to itch at an old scale, plucking it away with a slight hiss at the sting, silver ichor beading around the young scale growing in. not much longer and they should be losing their antlers. tossing their head as they shook their mane into place, they relaxed, looking down into the panier, gazing over the honeycombs, herbs, meats and pieces of rare metals. not that they knew what to do with the metals, but perhaps, the other group could make use of them. rumbling softly, they were content to wait, curious to see who would arrive at the border. there was no reason to rush, wuyi was full of energy and should xe need to rest, there was space enough in their mane for the cub to nest between their shoulders while they wandered about.