Sky Lark

Category:Tribeless
== Appearance ==
Sky Lark is... weird. No other way around it. They hardly look like a dragon at all. They have the basic shape of a dragon, but they're long, and almost painfully thin, with horns that bend in the breeze like reeds by the river. When they're afraid or need to get into a small space, their flesh seems to almost retract, letting them get into cracks that should be far too small for them. They have a long tail that moves in different ways depending on their emotions, and no wings at all. Their scales are a sort of white-gray misty color, and their lavender eyes look strangely innocent for how terrifying they can appear to dragons that don't know them.
== Personality ==
Sky Lark seems much younger then they actually are, due to being sheltered for most of their life. They are extremely curious, and want to know everything about the world that they can possibly know. They aren't stupid, but are quite easily trusting, since they don't know all the things that are considered, "suspicious." They are also very questioning, and tend not to believe anything fully unless they've seen it with their own eyes. They love debating.
== History ==
Sky Lark's people lived in a cave. They had no name. They never had. All the way back to their ancestors, these dragons had never had an official name. There weren't very many of them, only six or seven families. They never left the cave. They believed that the cave was the world, and beyond it was only nothingness. If you left the cave, you would become nothingness too. Strangely, their population never seemed to get any bigger, despite the fact that they were having dragonets. It always seemed to remain around the same number of dragons.
About a decade before Sky Lark was born, the population began to dwindle. So Sky Lark's birth was a symbol of hope, a bright spot in a dark time.
The dragonet hatched surrounded by the dead bodies of dragons who looked like them.
They were able to survive in the cave eating the food storage for a year, but eventually the food ran out, and they had to leave the cave. They wandered through the desert until they came to a forest, and gratefully stumbled inside.
Althought the dragonet did not know this, this forest bordered both SkyWing and SandWing territory, and there was a SkyWing village on one side and a SandWing village on the other side. These two groups often traded with each other, and since the forest was surronded by mountains, they had no choice but to go through it. 
Of course, since traders often went through the forest, the forest was also infested by bandits. In both the undergrowth and the sky, bandits waited to ambush traders and steal their goods. They didn't particularly care who it was, as long as they had food or expensive things, which they almost always did. However, since the dragonet had nothing, they didn't bother her. 
A dragon that they did bother was a new mother, travelling through the forest with her new-born dragonet. She'd had no choice. A new shipment was coming up soon, and she had no one else to take care of her dragonet. The bandits attacked, just as she was expecting, but as she was fighting them off, her dragonet got caught in the crossfire, and was killed. 
Striken with grief and with only a few supplies left, the dragon heard Sky Lark's cries. Who was this dragon, and why were they wandering in the forest all alone?
The dragon decided to set up in a cave, and try to care for the infant. She had become paranoid after the death of her daughter, so she tried to teach Sky Lark to be cautious, and to fear the outside world. And perhaps if they'd found any other member of their tribe, it would have worked, because Sky Lark's dragons never left their cave, believing there was nothing outside of it but empty darkness.
Unfortunately for Mother(as Sky Lark called her) Sky Lark was one of the most naturally curious dragons ever born, and quickly got bored staying in the cave. They didn't leave, because their mother's lessons had some impact on them, but they would pester Mother day and night about the world outside the cave, and wanted desperately to meet another dragon. 
One day, when Mother was out trading, a rather hapless new trader named Dromedary stumbled into the cave to escape from bandits and was immediately set upon by Sky Lark and their thousand questions. 
Dromedary had to stay in the cave for a while to recover from his wounds, and told Sky Lark all about the world while they patched him up. They were fascinated, and Mother returned to the cave to find her dragonet gone for the second time. 
Now, Sky Lark lives the SandWing village on one side of the forest. They know not everyone trusts them, but they do their best to seem trustworthy. They dug tunnels beneath the forest that they let Dromedary use so that the bandits can't attack him, and make sure to accompany him whenever he goes trading, in case something cool happens, or he needs their help. 
They still don't know where they come from, or what exactly they are, but they know who they are: they're Sky Lark. And that counts for something. 
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