Ananke

"I don't know who will be reading. I don't know how much of the past will be remembered. Chances are I won't be remembered either. But the stories I hold are something meaningful that will always be overshadowed by my predecessors. The NightWings will always have these stories of strife that get watered down by the gifts the sisters gave us. But we are not all the same. We will never all be the same. No matter how our cowardly queens say it, remember we always hold more with more passion than what they always could. Remember what you can do to change things. Envy is the weapon they use to tear us apart." 
~Memoirs of the dragon known as Ananke
Ananke - Born as Stonehearted - is one of Eight handmaidens for Queen Nike, The Queen of Veils. Often known as the crescent to the shades due to her pale nature, charisma, and political navigation for the wayward princess. He has also gone by the aliases of Crestfallen and Swansong during her duties under the royal family.
Born at the bitter end of the NightWing golden age and into the NightWing silver age when they began building paradise on their newly founded island. Seeing that even her greatest weapon can easily betray her, the nerves of Queen Vigilance fried and began doing what she can to ensure they cannot lose the still raging war with the IceWings while protecting her daughters. Extending the shroud of mystery the NightWings have by having her youngest daughter in veils surrounded by others that look just like her.
While she wasn't the queen's shadow, she still played an important role in her life. Being a calming and grounded confidant that was made to find a way through thick and thin. A seer who can only seek visions of the intentions of a dragon through direct contact with them. Ultimately seeing everything she spent her life with falling apart before her eyes not only once, but twice.
Nike the heir, Peitho the negotiator (Wellspoken), Nemesis the seeker (Inquisitive), Poena the shadow (Quickstep), *Eris the jury (Thoughtmaker), Dike the ghost (Silentmind), Lyssa the executioner (Wrathful), Phobos the hunter (Faststrike), *Ananke the judge (Stonehearted)
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I. Ending
Things were stable at the beginning
A lower class couple in the old NightWing Queendom were celebrating the birth of their 4th and final daughter in the wee hours of the morning of a chilly early spring day. The few joys they had these days were from their family, unknowingly growing larger with the surprise of the youngest appearing out of the blue. Nevertheless she was loved and adored, bearing the name Stonehearted to match her father Stonemover. A joke within her family that the dust he brought home everyday got into the egg shell that made his youngest stone grey in color.
When the end of all that was known came, she was a year old. Thought to be a prophet that needed their powers to develop, making her able to be with their sisters in the glass jubilee. Not witnessing the moment that the IceWing prince gutted himself live on stage, but was a part of the group that fled when her eldest sister saw the comotion.
Within a span of a few minutes, the golden age of the NightWing tribe was over.
The tribe was scattered, the IceWing army was coming, and the queen's secret weapon was not only public but also lost and murdered his own father.
Queen Vigilance was - honest to the moons above - panicking. The only way to save everyone is to give up their home and head somewhere else. It took a few days with everyone huddled together in public to find a place.
An inactive volcanic island large enough to house everyone, but also secluded enough far to the north of the continent that no one will find them.
Anyone that was loyal had to leave regardless of what that was said. Stonehearted, her sisters, her brother, and her parents were forced to gather what they could and begin the long flight to effectively the middle of nowhere. Unsure of what would come ahead.
II. Deliverance
The island was christened Tomorrow.
Being the island had no form of dragon contact, everything had to be built from the ground up. And with the reset of property and business, Stonemover had gotten lucky being a quarrier and a stone mason. Being one of the heads to shape the island and build civilization on the island.
Things were slowly coming back together through community efforts unsupervised by the queen as she went into hiding from the public. Regardless, the tribe was truly together as the fear of war no longer loomed over them as soldiers worked to cover their tracks and return what was left behind. As soon as the schools were open again, Stonehearted was sent off to classes and brought to classes regarding her powers. She was a part of the last generation of moonborne nightwings as one of the first acts the queen had done was to forbid anymore from hatching. And things keep getting tied further following that, always being watched and separated from others. Speaking to them as if they were the salvation to their tribe.
Eventually they're not allowed to spend time with powerless peers, being assigned a partner to be prepared to spend their adult lives with. Her partner in question was a bloodborne reader named Thoughtmaker. It was a rough start, they weren't from the same social circles. Hell, they never even spoke before. But they bonded over a bad situation. They both equally didn't like the changes that were going on and both worked together to rebel and avoid training and meetings.
It was through Thoughtmaker that she learned the trick to her visions. It's induced by touch and only shows what the subject invisions on doing. They became friends over the first year and a half on the island. While not friends by choice, they come to learn to enjoy each other. It wasn't clear what they were planning, Thoughtmaker couldn't read minds just project hers. But something was afoot.
And the answer came to them when Vigilance came out of her hole to inspect the last generation and their training that she ordered to have done. She was searching for a duo who had mastered their craft and passed her inspection.
Of course Thoughtmaker and Stonehearted had no intentions of passing.
They kept whispering and laying jokes in hushed voices the entire time.
The queen, unamused, stood in front of them and stared them down. Thoughtmaker, ever the trouble maker, merely stared back. Stonehearted didn't realize she was projecting on the queen the entire time until she had spoken. Interested in the powers, Vigilance had turned to Stonehearted and asked about her.
It felt like a small eternity until Stonehearted got out that she can see memories by touch. Demonstrating what she sees when she touched the queen and regale the moment of Darkstalker murdering his father.
The queen didn't respond, she just nodded to an aide and walked back in. She and Thoughtmaker were escorted out, apparently they were the ones.
III. Tomorrow
The duo was introduced to the others that were selected. Being the first non-moonborne dragons they were allowed to talk to outside of family. They were named Wellspoken, Inquisitive, Quickstep, Silentmind, Wrathful, and Faststrike. All dragonets around the same age as both Stonehearted and Thoughtmaker. They were stuck together for half a year as they got used to each other and received formal training under orders of the queen. Why had they been brought here? Why were they receiving such good treatment and training? No one knows. All they know they advanced their education and received tutoring in formalities and combat.
On their final day of their training, they were brought together and lined up in a private room deep in the new fortress that was built up as they were being taught as a group.
First time in months they were greeted by Queen Vigilance, and in tow her youngest daughter no one knew the name of.
She explained to the group that the IceWings were still searching for them. They weren't in the clear yet as a few IceWings had been spotted on other islands scouting out. Her other daughters were already exposed to the public and were at danger as it is. They were recognizable and easy targets. But her youngest was never seen. Her name was never even given to the public when they had left the old Queendom. In order to ensure her survival, Vigilance thought it was brilliant to have decoys and bodyguards around her at all times, needing to kill them all to ensure they truly got the princess.
And since the Princess was old enough to be seen by the public, they needed to make the names confusing. Thus everyone was renamed.
Peitho, Eris, Nemesis, Poena, Dike, Phobos, Lyssa, and lastly Ananke. The eight of them joined the princess at the unveiling of the new fortress to usher in the era they considered Tomorrow to be perfect. Construction of monuments, parks, and other public spaces were finished. An island that is green both day and night as the water flows from fountains and dragon-built rivers.
The playground to the NightWing princess. Nike was her real name and she has a rebellious streak as wide as the straight dividing them from the mainland.
IV. Homecoming
V. Farewell
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