Stratospheric

"Doesn't it feel . . stupid? To dream so much yet not be able to fulfill any?"
== Appearance ==
Stratospheric is coral red, with cool blue eyes which shine beautifully like light against the dark - well - in the dark they do. Stratospheric's scale patterns resemble a SkyWings, having no design other than a small pattern near her underbelly of pale blue lining and being jewel-hard, with the underbelly being the only penetrable spot in sight - well - other than the eyes, but eyes didn't count as scales from what she knew - aaaaanyways - her horns resembled that of a SkyWings, but in an IceWing's colors, being twisted and not icicle sharp, but still sharp enough to count as average horns.
== History . . ==
Growing up isolated, the first years of Strato's life she didn't think anything was wrong with her. Nothing at all. Sleeping was normal, and she always thought her parents were just hyper which was why they stayed awake all afternoon, but that was a long shot, but the dragonet did not notice back then - that she wasn't like other dragonets her age. She had none to compare herself too. On her isolated mountain home, there was only Ember and Verglas, her mother and father, with her first cousin, Hyperborean visiting occasionally. As time passed by, Stratospheric started to get an odd view of the world - that dragonets were rare and that was why she was the only one in the world, and dragonets stayed dragonets forever, and adults stayed adults forever, and they were all created by their elements. She didn't even know what 'tribe' meant, and just thought I'm a dragon. Mommy and Daddy are dragons. We are all different, yet we are all the same. She was correct although not in the correct way. Strato was a quick learner, but she didn't really have anything to work with, being isolated from the world with no knowledge of what lurked in its midst. So she just assumed that the only dragons that existed lived under that mountain - hey, you couldn't blame her. Imagine saying Everything lives on earth but then discovering aliens lived in space? That it wasn't all a unicorn-tale?
Later in life, after living for what she soon knew as "14 whole years" she was allowed to venture out into the world. Unfortunately, Stratospheric didn't want to learn new things. She wanted to keep on living in her world, even if it was as easy to rip as paper.She liked dreaming - she didn't want to be let down by reality.Unfortunately, whether she liked it or not, that would soon be the case.
Only a week after these events did Queen Glacier attack the SkyWings. In end, Queen Glacier won some territory - the territory which happened to be the very same mountain range Stratospheric lived in. Stratospheric didn't care much, although everyone else in the family was hyperventilating about it - especially Verglas, who became known as the IceWing who loved to play with fire around those parts. So . . not very likely for Strato's family to be left in peace, even if her family did move to the Ice Kingdom. Ember would definitely speak out against it, Verglas would spend the rest of his life sulking, Hyperborean would freak out and faint - it was typical of this family to 'overreact' to everything.Or at least it seemed that way to Strato. She didn't know - and at the edge of her mind, where dreams did not roam, she worried about it. Well, if that happened.
Unfortunately, only 2 days later had she realized she was right.
Queen Glacier found them under the mountains, and she didn't seem that bad to Stratospheric, who had a dumbfounded look on her face at the crown. Queen Glacier always had this stare on her face during the first time Strato saw her, and it felt like it was drawing her in.
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"So . . a band of exiles hiding in the SkyWing Kingdom, I presume?" as Verglas, his talons twitching shook his head "I am no exile from the Ice Kingdom, your highness." bowing in a way I had never seen before. I tried to mimic him, but ended up falling over with a muffled 'oof!'. Glacier ignored it, continuing "So why did you leave?" Glacier demanded in that frigidly clever voice of hers which sounded like azures embedded in diamonds dripping with poison and snake fangs. Verglas admitted "I didn't like the cold very much." as Glacier arched her eyebrows very slightly, but stayed silent. "Um, excuse me but what is an Ice Kingdom?" Strato asked, tilting her head. Glacier stared at her oddly before continuing "I'll take you back in, but the hybrid has to go." as Verglas shook his head "The hybrid doesn't know anything about the outside world, you know. She'd get eaten by a pack of wolves before you could say 'scram'" Glacier gave her a look of somewhat distaste before speaking "Very well.", flicking her tail "Take the hybrid. Where's your circle necklace?-" as another interruption appeared "I refuse to go to that frozen wasteland." Ember hissed from behind me as I turned to face my mother's brown-gold eyes. Her red scales were gleaming, and her dark brown horns added to the fire-like look protruding from her. Her underbelly was paler orange-yellow, but not so pale that it looked pastel. "You can't, either way. Go running back to Scarlet, will you?" as Ember shrugged "The new Queen is Ruby." Glacier's talons scraped across the floor as she inched closer "I see." before hissing "What is the hybrid called by?" as Verglas responded "Stratospheric.", just as Strato raised her talon, but put it down. Just then, Glacier said "Come with me." setting off, as Ember nodded to them, departing in the opposite direction.
And just like that, Strato's whole life was flipped. Ember left with no remorse, and she was going somewhere she never knew of, where she had a feeling Hyperborean wouldn't visit.
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Stratospheric, after adjusting to the light she never had (which she still dislikes until today) felt curious about the large world and asked a lot about it on the flight there, disrupting (possible) peace and quiet. Strato didn't know how to fly at the time, so for the majority of the trip she was on the ground, running away from squirrels and hissing at the occasional large insects and spiders and taking tons of naps, slowing them down a lot. Glacier once remarked that she was as lazy as a RainWing (which Strato did not appreciate, although she didn't know what a RainWing was).
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