Raindrop Scales

This is a fanfic for The Market Place. I have the dragon who recommended Raindrop Scales to Cricket! Enjoy!
== Chapter One ==
Acari giggled like a small dragonet as she walked down the tunnel of Jewel Hive, her front arms overflowing with bag after bag after bag. Ahhhh, why is shopping so wonderfully amazing? She suddenly turned a sharp left, going into a slightly narrower tunnel, flamesilk lamps overhead casting a shadowy golden light, the treestuff under her claws hard and dusty. She shook a tiny bug off her claws, flinging it into the darkness above her. Suddenly, Acari felt the tunnel turn into a steep drop, and she plummeted down into the space above the Salvation Statue. Her squash orange wings caught her in time as she hovered above the Statue before settling down onto one of the benches aside it. She looked reverently up at the statue, setting down her bags and baskets on the seat beside her. Acari grinned, and began picking through her bags, unable to take the tense atmosphere anymore. Hmmm, She thought, picking up a tiny jar of paprika. Got the spices for Stinger's hatching day zebra here... got the rug and the... there it is! She picked up the thick book from the bottom of the bag, tracing the green dragon baring her teeth and brandishing her spear on the front. 
The LeafWing Warrior. 
 Those words emblazoned in gold made Acari sigh. Stinger was so obsessed with LeafWings. Anything she could get her talons on. Books. Drawings. Anything. This was Stinger's favorite book in the whole world. Many times Acari would go to pick her up from the Glitterbazzar after Stinger had been gone hours doing "errands", and find Stinger curled up outside the book shop, reading The LeafWing Warrior and then reading out fact after fact about LeafWing's on their way home, like a river that never stopped flowing. 
Acari loved her daughter, but sometimes, she didn't understand her. 
Acari repacked all the items she had bought in the woven bags, then spread her wings, paused, then took out one of Tilupa's delicious lemon squares. She bit into it, feeling the warmth of the fresh sugar running down her throat. Acari licked her snout with her tongue, removing all excess powdered sugar. Acari sighed as she spread her wings, shooting up into the air again, beating up up up into the huge Hive. She looked down occasionally, watching the statue get smaller and smaller. She suddenly wheeled to a stop, looking at the five tunnels jut into the wall of the Hive. After a moment of hesitation, Acari shot into the far left tunnel, finishing off the lemon square as she did.
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