'Sundew' is a female LeafWing dragonet and the main protagonist of The Poison Jungle. She was
formerly a member of the PoisonWings led by her mother, Belladonna, and
father, Hemlock. She is honored and respected among PoisonWings due to
her powerful leafspeak ability. She is currently in a relationship with
Willow and resides in the LeafSilk Kingdom. She was formerly betrothed
to Mandrake.

## Description

Sundew has a small and wiry shape and a face that is similar to
Belladonna's. She has dark forest-green scales that are flecked with
gold, and she also has golden scales along the edges of her wings,
talons, and across her snout. She wears several small pouches, woven
from long grass or fashioned from leaves, which contain venomous insects
or useful plants. A pouch that rests over her heart contains a small,
smooth jade frog, and there is a pouch under her left wing that is a
darker shade of green than the others. There is also a pouch marked with
a large A, and it holds a jar for bullet ants inside. She is slightly
smaller than Swordtail, and smaller than Tsunami.

## Personality

Sundew is a natural leader who uses her fury to keep her going, and when
she becomes tired, she thinks of all the things that make her angry. She
is bristly, sharp, quick to anger, persuasive, stubborn, intense, brave,
brisk, menacing, furious, defensive, fierce, terrifying, and impatient.
Her anger is both a weapon and a safe place for her to go when her
emotions become too complicated. Due to her upbringing, she was
unfamiliar with healthy and compassionate love and found Willow's love
for her unsettling as a result. She believes that her own yelling is
hilarious and morale-boosting, and has a strong moral compass, believing
that even the HiveWings should not be subjected to poison at a peace
summit. Sundew also appears to dislike jewelry and dressing up garishly,
and strongly stated that she does not do sparkles. She glares and frowns
often, always looking ready for a fight. Cricket thinks of her like a
dragon who moves like she has already found all the answers to herself.
She also notes that when complimented, Sundew's face just "throws out a
few spasms" and goes back to scowling.

## Biography

### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left The Lost Continent

Sundew and her parents, Belladonna and Hemlock, were hiding
in Queen Wasp's greenhouse. After they captured Blue, Cricket, and
Swordtail, she asked for her mother's permission to kill them and leave
their bodies outside the greenhouse. Her mother, Belladonna, immediately
disagreed as this would alert the HiveWings that intruders were in the
area.

Sundew willingly accompanied Blue and Cricket to the Wasp Hive#Temple
of Clearsight|Temple of Clearsight to help them steal the Book of
Clearsight, using flower dye and wing-shaped leaves to disguise herself
as a SilkWing. While Cricket drugged the guards at the entrance with a
flower Sundew had given her, Blue asked Sundew about what her parents
had said about being born for this purpose. Before entering Wasp Hive,
she defaced a carving of Queen Wasp, and as described in the book,
"raked her claws across the queen's elegant snout." Cricket protested
that the vandalism was unnecessary. Sundew responded with, "Wait till I
get to her actual face." In the Temple of Clearsight, she paralyzed
several HiveWing guards from a distance with blow-darts. Blue and
Cricket both stared, and Sundew told them to "get moving and quit
staring". In the room with the Book of Clearsight, Sundew tried to take
the book, then the container, but everything was firmly locked and
rooted to the floor. Sundew fought The Librarian shortly after she
revealed herself, who was always under Queen Wasp's mind control.
Although the Librarian was bigger and stronger, Sundew broke her arm and
nearly killed her before Cricket intervened. Sundew then freed the
Librarian from Wasp's mind control by using bullet ants to bite her,
causing unbearable pain to Queen Wasp. This made her temporarily leave
the Librarian's body.

After the Librarian's room was surrounded by mind-controlled HiveWings,
Sundew threw a smoke bomb to distract Wasp from her, Cricket, and Blue's
escape with the Book. Instead of helping the wingless Blue fly away, she
fought against Wasp's drones with her weapons.

In the ensuing chaos, Blue lost track of the others and did not know if
they escaped the Temple. However, they later made contact with Blue
again, with Sundew revealing that the LeafWings had made a tunnel into
the Hive from below. She helped Blue and Luna escape by making roots
grow rapidly, knocking a piece of stone out from the floor of the
flamesilk cavern, showing her leafspeak abilities for the first time.
She led them through the tunnel to the sea.

After learning the truth about the book, Sundew said that she planned to
return to the LeafWings to form a new plan to take down the HiveWings.
However, when Luna and Swordtail were noticed by HiveWing soldiers, she
leaped into the fight to protect them and ended up fighting alone. This
was the last Blue saw of her before beginning his Metamorphosis.

left
The Hive Queen
Sundew appeared when
Cricket heard the sounds of another dragon in the caves where she and
Blue, who was still in his cocoon, were hiding. Cricket was terrified
that the dragon could be another HiveWing, or worse, a mind-controlled
one, but her fears were unfounded. Cricket was relieved and asked Sundew
what had happened above ground. Sundew explained she led the HiveWings
"all the way to Lake Scorpion" before losing them and taking the long
way back to the caves. She had not found Luna, but she had found
Swordtail, having likely hit a rock and passed out, and had dragged his
unconscious, seaweed-covered body into the cavern.

Sundew mentioned that she understood his devotion to Luna, since she
"has a one true love herself," but ignored Cricket's questions as to who
and continued that Swordtail did leave her fighting two HiveWings alone.
Sundew eventually snapped at Cricket, irritated by all the questions, so
Cricket offered to get some water for Sundew's injury to make peace. She
agreed and gave Cricket a kind of absorbing moss. Cricket was
intimidated by the LeafWing's "scowly" expression and decided that "it
would be safer to back away for a little while." Sundew then had Cricket
use a "weird-looking plant" from one of her pouches to wake up
Swordtail, who she claimed was in no state to still be looking for Luna.

When Cricket and Swordtail were talking about Blue's flamesilk status,
Sundew admitted her motives with Blue; to use him and his silk to burn
down the Hives. Sundew, Cricket, and Swordtail then had a long argument
about whether it was the right thing to do, with Swordtail taking sides
with Sundew.

Sundew called the Book of Clearsight "completely useless" because it
could not tell them the future, and then told the others that she would
rather have Luna with them as Luna would have jumped to the idea of
burning down the Hives, but that she would settle for using Blue to
destroy the HiveWings. Sundew believed that all the HiveWings deserved
to be killed for what they did to the LeafWings and their home, except
for Cricket. Sundew then tried to get more information about the
Chrysalis out of Swordtail, who explained it was an organization of
SilkWings who were fighting the HiveWings for their freedom.

She agreed to go looking for the Chrysalis after Blue finished his
Metamorphosis and try to find a way to defeat Queen Wasp's mind control
powers. Eventually, the four decide to find out how to stop Queen Wasp's
mind control instead of slaughtering innocent dragons.

Sundew then went to talk with her parents to tell them where she had
been and what to do with the book. She requested more time to create a
less violent plan of destroying the HiveWing kingdom than the one in
effect. After much argument, Belladonna and Hemlock relented, giving
Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail two days to make a plan.

Cricket suggested going to Jewel Hive to look for clues, as it was the
closest Hive to the group, and the laid-back rules and security would
allow them to remain undetected for a longer amount of time. Once they
arrived, Sundew once again disguised herself as a SilkWing using gaudy
fabrics, much to her humiliation. During their stay, the four made the
water tower near Cadelle's house their seat of operations.

At midnight on their first day, Sundew and the others met with the
Chrysalis's Jewel Hive branch, though only three members were there,
Tau, Morpho, and Cinnabar. Sundew told them about the LeafWing plan to
destroy the Hives, and they jumped on the idea, to Cricket's distress.
After a close encounter with Wasp, they overheard Wasp planning to go to
Scarab's mansion. Cricket realized that meant Katydid was in danger and
quickly headed to Scarab|Lady Scarab's place. Sundew tried to protest,
but eventually gave in to Cricket's demands. Before she left, she told
Morpho to gather all of the Jewel Hive Chrysalis members at the farthest
stall in the Glitterbazaar by midday.

Sundew, Blue, Cricket, and Swordtail stopped at a party nearby,
pretending to be party-goers, as they watched the encounter between
Queen Wasp and Lady Scarab. After Wasp left with Katydid, Cricket
insisted on talking to Scarab, believing she knew how the mind-control
worked. Even though Sundew disapproved, she allowed Cricket to carry
through with her plan. After Cricket came back, she presented them with
the plan to reveal the truth about the Book of Clearsight to the
entirety of Jewel Hive. Cricket continued with the plan, despite Sundew
and Swordtail's protests. Afterwards, the group parted ways with Sundew
heading off to meet with Chrysalis.

After Cricket found the truth about the mind-control, she reunited with
Sundew. Even after hearing Cricket's explanation of the mind-control,
Sundew was still convinced that this information would not change
anything. She did, however, offer Cricket and Blue a chance to negotiate
with her parents. She later watched Bumblebee hatch and discerned what
Queen Wasp's poison was made of by the dragonet's eggshell: a plant from
the restricted greenhouse she and her parents hid in days earlier. When
Bloodworm Hive was attacked by LeafWing forces, she used the chaos and
destruction as a cover, having Blue destroy the greenhouse and thus
Wasp's source of mind-control poison.

left The Poison Jungle

Sundew, Blue, Swordtail, Cricket, and Bumblebee were flying
and a flash of yellow and black caught her eye. Sundew hissed and
Cricket apologized to Sundew for startling her, and Sundew claimed that
it did not.

As they flew closer, Blue asked nervously if the Poison Jungle was as
dangerous as the rumors say it is. Swordtail suggested that the
LeafWings were spreading stories and exaggerating how dangerous it was
so no one else would go there. Sundew laughed, replying that the
LeafWings had not communicated with any SilkWings or HiveWings since the
war, as the LeafWings were supposed to be extinct. Sundew called the
LeafWings' extinction both the SilkWings and HiveWings whole goal. Blue
protested that it was not his goal, or Swordtail's, or Cricket's. Sundew
confirmed the rumors, saying that no one who came for the trees again
will be allowed to live. Blue asked how the LeafWings could be living in
the Poison Jungle if it was so dangerous for dragons — Sundew replied
that the tribe did not have a choice, saying that the LeafWings adapted
to living in the Poison Jungle. After Sundew mentioned carnivorous
plants, Swordtail began to panic. Sundew noticed, saying that he would
probably get eaten.

Swordtail said that he did not enjoy the conversation, and changed the
topic. They started talking about why they were going there. The Distant
Kingdoms was mentioned as the group moved closer to the jungle.

Sundew hovered over the river and realized that the others had stopped.
Cricket marveled at the size of the trees. Blue said that it felt like
one big creature and that it almost sounded like it was breathing.
Bumblebee started yelling, and Sundew told her that she could eat when
they got to the village. They flew further over the jungle until Sundew
opened up a secret way in. Blue asked what they were and Cricket said
that she thought they were called touch-me-nots. Sundew confirmed this,
saying that touch-me-nots were one name for them. Swordtail laughed,
saying that it sounded super dangerous. Cricket smothered a laugh.
Sundew replied that touch-me-nots were probably the least likely to kill
a dragon in the Poison Jungle.

Bumblebee woke a snake up and it narrowed its eyes at her. Sundew told
them to keep moving. She slunk through the trees nimble and quick.
Swordtail commented that she was like a monkey, not "foodishly," but
fast and agile. They stopped for a rest, and Blue said that it was like
the Hives, high up and smelly, and loud. Swordtail spotted a pink
book-like flower and went to sniff it. Sundew yelled that he should not
touch the plant, but it was too late. Swordtail's nose brushed it, and
he was swallowed whole by the plant, which was actually a Venus
Dragon-trap.

Sundew told him to go limp to fool the plant into thinking Swordtail was
a rock or a tree branch, however, he was struggling in the plant's mouth
too loudly for Sundew to be heard. In a desperate attempt to save him,
Blue used some of his flamesilk to burn the plant. This, however, did
nothing and made the situation worse and lit some of the nearby plants
ablaze. Sundew used her leafspeak (the ability to control plants) to
grow a tree that contained berries with flame-retardant properties,
effectively squashing the fire. With Blue's help, she managed to rip the
plant's maw open and free Swordtail.

After they freed Swordtail, they headed for the PoisonWing village with
no other difficulties until they got there. Along the way, they
encountered Mandrake, Nettle, and Wolfsbane hunting a panther, which, in
short, did not go very well for Mandrake, and Sundew killed it for him.
When they got to the village they were checked to see if Swordtail,
Blue, Cricket, and Sundew had any seeds from the Poison Jungle on them,
to be sure that none of the dangerous plants got inside of their
village. Right when she entered the village, she started being heckled
by her tribe for bringing strangers into the village. Sundew, falsely
stated that she brought them to the tribe because they were all very
useful to their plans to destroy the hives and get their revenge, in an
attempt to sway Belladonna into letting them stay.

Under the cover of darkness, Sundew sneaked out of the village and to a
secret meeting place, where she met with her girlfriend, Willow. While
she was waiting for Willow to show up, it cut to a flashback when Sundew
was two. She was trying to catch a frog that ate her sugar-coated
grasshopper and ran away. Sundew, enraged, pursued the frog to the
border of the village, but the frog hopped right through, and into the
rest of the jungle. Sundew crossed the border and continued the pursuit.
She almost caught it, but it slipped through her grasp yet again. The
frog hopped right into a nearby pond. Not ready to give up, Sundew
grabbed the nearest sharp stick and started furiously stabbing the water
to impale the frog. Alas, she failed, and the frog escaped, getting to
enjoy its treat. Sundew, having let the frog run off with her dessert,
started screaming bloody murder, which a nearby dragon heard, namely
Willow.

Sundew then thought Willow had a "sparkly face" and they both end up
liking each other. Sundew wanted to continue seeing Willow so the next
meeting they had, Willow gave her a jade frog. Sundew would leave it on
a rock at night and Willow would come. Willow eventually arrived, and
they conversed about recent events before Queen Sequoia appeared. Sundew
accused Sequoia of spying on her, to which the latter told her that it
was time for Sundew to join the "SapWings|real LeafWings."

Sundew and Willow were led into the SapWing village, where Sundew met
Hazel|Princess Hazel. Sequoia discussed the breath of evil cutting and
examined it before telling the dragonets to go away. Sundew stayed in
Hazel's room for the night.

In the morning, Sundew and Willow went to meet the 'strange visitors,'
who turned out to be Tsunami and Turtle. Later, Sundew realized that
Sequoia had summoned Belladonna and Sundew's friends for a meeting,
which she protested about but did not get a say about her mother coming.
She and Belladonna had a heated discussion before Sequoia silenced all
the gathered dragons and told them all about the Legend of the Hive.
Later, Sequoia and Belladonna agreed to send Sundew, Willow, Mandrake,
Nettle, and Cricket on a mission to Eye of the jungle, where Hawthorn
guarded a small faction of the breath of evil.

On the way to Hawthorn's home, Sundew and Nettle keep on arguing, and
Sundew ended up getting caught in an actual sundew, which Nettle mocked
her for. They soon arrived at the Eye, where Hawthorn told them the
story of how Wasp exploited the LeafWings, and how he played a major
part in the tree Wars. They then travelled back to the SapWing village
to tell Sequoia about Hawthorn's discovery of an antidote. Sequoia told
Sundew to rest while she and other dragons went to build a bonfire for
the incoming HiveWing army to inhale.

When Sundew woke up, she, Cricket and Mandrake went down to grow some of
the Heart of Salvation, which turned out to be the breath of evil in
disguise. Before Sundew could react, Hawthorn appeared behind them.
Sundew realized that there was a dragonbite viper around Willow's neck,
then threatened to kill Hawthorn, who mocked her. While Cricket asked
Hawthorn questions to stall him, Sundew summoned a sundew plant to kill
the viper around Willow's neck. Hawthorn raged at Sundew, then got
killed by Willow.

Sundew was later seen in the SapWing village again, where Hazel was
ordering LeafWings to gather everyone free from the othermind, onto the
shores of the Gullet River. Sundew then flew with the rest of the
LeafWings and SilkWings refugees on the way to Pyrrhia.

left
The Dangerous Gift
Sundew was
mentioned in Swordtail's thoughts in the prologue. Swordtail was sent to
find Sundew and the other LeafWings by the breath of evil, but was
internally relieved that she had fled to the Distant Kingdoms. He
desperately hoped that she and the rest of the refugees would come back
soon and find out a way to release him and Blue from the othermind's
control.

Sundew later arrived in the Ice Kingdom with the rest of the Pantalan
dragons. She stood and bristled several times while Hazel spoke to Queen
Snowfall, but did not intervene.

Upon arriving at Jerboa III's hut, Sundew argued with Cobra Lily about
the dragons they have left behind in Pantala. Though Cobra Lily found it
fortunate that dragons like Nettle did not come along, Sundew protested
for how the dragons who saved their lives are in great danger and they
are doing nothing to help them.

Sundew was then hugged by Luna. After being asked about Blue and
Swordtail, she swears to her that they will get them back. She, Cricket,
Bumblebee, and Willow lead Luna inside of the hut to explain what she
had missed. Later in Sanctuary, Sundew was seen arguing with Tsunami
about animus magic.

When the queens were choosing dragons to explore the abyss, Snowfall
approached Sundew and Willow. Snowfall explained that she wanted Sundew
to have anything magical that might defeat the villain they were
fighting. Sundew was amazed at the prospect of magic. Snowfall then
removed the IceWing gifts|gift of stealth from her wrists and handed the
bracelets to Sundew. Sundew put them on, and asked how they worked.
Snowfall explained, and then Sundew turned herself invisible, then
Willow, then the two of them. She thanked Snowfall and promised to
return the bracelets.

Sundew was chosen to be the LeafWing representative for the stealth
team.

left
The Flames of Hope
Sundew was
mentioned when Luna was using the dreamvisitor to talk to Swordtail. She
told him how Sundew and Cricket and some other dragons were going to
save him. As the stealth team continued on their way to Pantala, they
were suddenly ambushed by a group of mind-controlled HiveWings. Sundew
was able to make most of the group invisible in time with the gift of
stealth. Unfortunately she was not able to make Pineapple, Qibli, and
Tsunami invisible in time. During the battle, she used seaweed to help
fight the HiveWings. A mind-controlled SilkWing revealed himself to the
stealth team and demanded Sundew to show herself. Sundew, however,
stayed silent throughout the exchange. After the HiveWings left, taking
the unconscious Moonwatcher, Pineapple, Qibli, and Tsunami with them,
the rest of the stealth team were torn on what to do. The team
ultimately decided to split off into two teams; one team would go ahead
and search for the abyss, while the other team would go and rescue their
fallen comrades. Sundew and Lynx were in the latter team and took off
almost immediately. Before they left, Sundew got into a fight with
Cricket about what to do with HiveWing soldiers that were knocked
unconscious during the fight. Cricket wanted to leave a copy of the map
with one of them so they could find their way back to Pantala. Sundew
thought the plan was bad as the HiveWings could be trouble if Queen Wasp
decided to mind-control them again. In the end, Luna and Cricket decided
to leave a copy of the map with a HiveWing named Earwig before they
left.

When the stealth team was spying on Axolotl, Sundew made them all
visible again, and Luna went to check if that meant she and Lynx had
arrived. However, Luna did not find anyone, and the stealth team soon
decided to stop waiting and go to the abyss. Cricket thought of using a
plant to leave Sundew a message. When Luna was talking with Cottonmouth
and Freedom, Cottonmouth said that he wanted to get Sundew and spread
the plant across the whole world with her leafspeak. Luna realized that
this meant Sundew was still safe and had not been mind-controlled yet.
Later, while Qibli, Tsunami and Pineapple were in Wasp's throne room,
Wasp mentioned how Moon or the "invisible one" had been stolen by
someone. Luna, who was in the Mindspace at the time, realized that
Sundew and Lynx must have been able to rescue Moon from Wasp's clutches.
Later, Cottonmouth used Luna to trick Cricket into looking for Sundew in
order to capture Sundew.

After Qibli, Tsunami and Pineapple were able to escape Wasp Hive, they
headed south towards Lake Scorpion, where they ran into Sundew,
Moonwatcher and Lynx. Sundew was happy to see them and explained how
they wanted to rescue them, but decided to change plans and head to the
abyss to help the others. They all headed towards Lake Scorpion after
Sundew mentioned Luna's and Cricket's message. After Pineapple revealed
himself to be possessed by Cottonmouth, Sundew questioned him on his
intentions. Cottonmouth offered to let Luna go in exchange for one of
the others. Sundew offered herself in exchange for Luna, much to the
others' and Luna's dismay. They all followed Pineapple while staying
invisible with the gift of stealth. While the others were flying towards
Lake Scorpion, Luna had the idea to offer Freedom the memories of the
other members of the stealth team, to show to her that dragons were not
unloving monsters. Through Moonwatcher, they were able to share the
memories of the stealth team to Freedom. In Sundew's vision, she was
shown chasing after a frog and meeting up with the love of her life,
Willow. Sundew and the others arrived at the scene of Cricket and Bullfrog being dragged down by Cottonmouth's dragons.
Sundew demanded Cottonmouth to let go of Cricket and Bullfrog, to which
Cottonmouth refused and a fight ensued between Cottonmouth's dragons and
the stealth team. After Luna managed to destroy the othermind and free
everyone, she reunited with Sundew, who was confused on what had just
happened. Luna promised to tell her everything on their way to Cicada
Hive. After Swordtail and Luna reunited, Luna mentioned that Sundew and
the other dragons had gone to imprison Wasp so that she could be brought
to justice.

In the epilogue, Sundew was shown planting and growing trees on the
Dragontail Peninsula to restore Pantala to its former glory.

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### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World
Sundew
explained that her favorite literature|book was literature#Named
books|The Count of Mount Kudzu. She later wrote a scroll to Starflight
about the letters she found between Sequoia, Linden, and Belladonna. She
was briefly mentioned in one of Sequoia's letter to Belladonna when she
noted that Belladonna was with an egg.

## Relationships

### Belladonna

Belladonna is manipulative, and often makes Sundew angry by ruining
things. She and her mother are always only moments away from a fight,
and Sundew often disobeys her orders. Sundew can vaguely see her mother
as a dragon who cares for others, but she knows that Belladonna will
never show that side of herself to other dragons. Her mother taught her
to summon her anger at a moment's notice, and she often tells Sundew
everything that she does wrong, comments on her mistakes, and starts
shouting matches when she is the slightest bit aggravated. It is rare
for Belladonna to compliment her daughter.

### Blue

Because Blue is so willing to apologize, Sundew finds it impossible and
unenjoyable to yell at him. Sundew is often surprised by Blue, from his
sister being a flamesilk to him standing up to Queen Wasp. She knows
that Blue tries to understand everyone and tried to hide her emotions
from him that she believes are weak, like guilt and fear, to show that
she is tough. Blue is her friend but tends to side with Cricket on many
things, such as not setting all the Hives on fire, or painting Jewel
Hive with messages of Wasp lying about the Book of Clearsight.

### Bryony

At one year older than her, Bryony and Sundew grew up with each other.
When Snowfall told Sundew that she had a vision about Bryony, her eyes
narrowed like she was trying not to have some other expression. Sundew
knew where Bryony's nest was.

### Bumblebee

Sundew was unsure and annoyed that Cricket had brought back a HiveWing
egg, but after Sundew gave a dried mango to the newborn dragonet to keep
her still, Bumblebee was mentioned to "give Sundew a worshipful look."
She loves Sundew dearly, and while Sundew was visiting the SapWing
village, she caught herself hoping that someone would feed Bumblebee
while she was away. She was disappointed when Cricket brought Bumblebee
to the village and the dragonet was asleep. Sundew was amused when
Bumblebee seemed to disagree with Nettle taking charge of their
expedition to the Eye of the jungle, and gave her a high-five, much to
Bumblebee's delight. Bumblebee seems to completely trust her, and Sundew
refers to her as 'little bug.' Sundew thought that fleeing from battle
was worth it, if it meant that Bumblebee would be protected from the
othermind.

### Cobra Lily

Cobra Lily is one of Sundew's friends, and one of her favorite dragons.
Sundew thinks Cobra Lily is awesome, and she was close enough to Cobra
Lily as a friend to be aware of her silent rage. They are also
physically affectionate towards one another. Cobra Lily pointed out once
that Sundew should be their queen. However, Sundew becomes annoyed with
her on the subject and tells her to stop saying such things.

### Cricket

Cricket is one of Sundew's friends, and she is often amused by the
HiveWing. She teases Cricket, and although Sundew claims to hate all
HiveWings, she seems okay with Cricket and has expressed friendly
affection for her at various times. She has mentioned that Cricket is
"different" from the other HiveWings, possibly due to her insatiable
curiosity and immunity to Queen Wasp's mind control powers, and silently
felt anger at Nettle when she spoke to Cricket in such a cold and harsh
way, though noting she treated Cricket similarly at first. Cricket's
company also seems to relax Sundew, as she seems more friendly and open
than she did in The Lost Continent. Cricket often wants to open up her
mind like a book and read it.

### Hazel

When Sundew first met Hazel she was jealous after seeing Hazel's close
behavior towards Willow. But after Willow assured Sundew she was the
only dragon for her. Sundew thought to think kindly about the queen, and
it is thought Hazel does also. Hazel is a bit of a calming influence for
her. Sundew believed that Hazel was the rightful queen of the LeafWings
and does not try to take that leadership from Hazel. Even though they
have only met each other recently, they seem to have developed a
friendship.

### Hemlock

Hemlock frequently makes Sundew angry. He often tells her everything
that she does wrong, comments on her mistakes, and starts shouting
matches when he is the slightest bit aggravated, like her mother. Sundew
and her father are not close, but she asked Io to search for him before
fleeing Pantala.

### Mandrake

Before the events of The Poison Jungle, Mandrake was Sundew's fiancé.
Sundew refused to let Mandrake be injured by a panther, even though that
would have made her life a lot easier. He was happy and accepting when
Sundew told him she wanted to marry Willow instead. They have a playful
friendship and Sundew even considers Mandrake as one of the few dragons
that she likes.

### Nettle

Sundew and Nettle's average conversations are usually hostile and
argumentative. She felt joy at Nettle's furious scowl after Bumblebee
mocked her tone of voice, and she considers Nettle's behavior to be
vicious, unproductive, and out of control. Yelling at Nettle gives
Sundew energy, and stops her from worrying. She usually considers Nettle
to be simply unlikable and irritating, but became genuinely angry
towards her after Willow intervened during one of their arguments. She
was also quietly angry at Nettle for how she addressed Cricket. Nettle
sounded unmistakably triumphant when Sundew was trapped by a sundew
plant.

### Swordtail

Sundew finds Swordtail amusing, but she is often angry at him without
feeling bad about it. She finds yelling at him satisfying, although
there are moments where she enjoys his company, and Swordtail considers
her to be a leader. Sundew considers Swordtail to be quite rash, yet he
started to grow on her. They tend to share the same destructive mindset
and are similar in terms of personality. She understands his devotion to
Luna, as she also has a lover. In The Hive Queen, Sundew is tempted to
leave Swordtail on the shore after trying to find Luna, but ultimately
brings him to Cricket.

### Willow

Willow is Sundew's long-time girlfriend, and Sundew thinks about her all
the time. She makes Sundew feel more like herself, and is often gentle,
calm, amused and reassuring towards her. They regard one another as
mutually beautiful, and when they initially met, Willow made all of
Sundew's words "bump around in her mind like disoriented moths". Willow
helps Sundew feel more calm and less tense, and Sundew finds it
impossible to scoff at her. Willow is the only dragon that Sundew looks
forward to seeing, and they often laugh together and are very
affectionate towards one another. Sundew is gentle towards Willow, and
when Willow smiles at her, she feels a funny shiver in her chest. Due to
Willow's calm and rational demeanor contrasting her own fury and bristly
attitude, one of Sundew's greatest fears is her temper pushing Willow
too far, thus ruining their relationship. Even when Willow believed that
Sundew had endangered the LeafWings by stealing the Book of Clearsight,
she still loved her. Sundew became jealous after seeing Hazel's behavior
towards Willow, but Willow assured her that Hazel was just a friend and
that Sundew was the only dragon for her. When Willow referred to Sundew
casually as her girlfriend to a stranger, Sundew felt unexpected joy,
and considered that the second-greatest moment of her life, after
meeting Willow. Sundew is comforted by Willow, and found it impossible
to pull away from her when she was in emotional distress, even in
Belladonna's presence. Willow is one of the only dragons that Sundew is
not typically angry with, and she often longs Willow's company, as she
loves Sundew for who she is. Sundew was sad to leave Willow behind, as
she had been chosen to fly back to Pantala to stop the othermind. After
the othermind's defeat, Sundew and Willow went to live in the new
LeafSilk Kingdom together.

## Quotes

Why would you tell them that? […] They can't help us!
They'll turn us in the moment they get a chance! We should kill them
now and leave their corpses somewhere that'll really scare those worms
in the Hive.
to Belladonna, about Blue, Swordtail, and
Cricket The Lost Continent
173

-----

None of your business. [...] As if we'd tell you anything!
Tree killers!
to Blue, Swordtail, and Cricket
The Lost Continent
174

-----

Yeah! You'll have ME. That's like the opposite of being alone.
I can do anything twenty dragons can do.
to Cricket

The Lost Continent
188

-----

It's nothing mystical. She wanted a daughter to carry on our
family's legacy. She trained me my whole life for one purpose: this.

to Blue, about Belladonna
The Lost Continent
192-193

-----

I don't know why Willow wants to save your tribe. You're as
much of a problem as the HiveWings, with your nodding and smiling and
agreeing to let them trample all over you.
to Blue, about
SilkWings The Lost Continent

197

-----

My guess is Luna got blown out to sea and he tried to follow
her. But the storm chucked him into a boulder instead. Which he
deserved, if you ask me. Did you see him fly off and leave me fighting
two HiveWings alone? I mean, sure, Luna is great and I know he just got
her back and all and I get it; I have a one true love, too.

to Cricket
The Hive Queen
21

-----

A few hundred awesome fiery things. Starting with the most
obvious: he's going to burn down all the Hives for us.
about
burning down the Hives
The Hive Queen
29

-----

What do you say? Care to destroy the HiveWings together?

to Cinnabar
The Hive Queen
149

-----

This was your brilliant idea. […] Don't look at me. I don't
want anything to do with dragonets. Especially a HiveWing dragonet.
[…] I'll go get us something to eat. Yes, that's what I should do.

to Cricket, upon Bumblebee's hatching
The Hive Queen

260

-----

No, everything you've heard about the jungle is true. Queen
Wasp sent a few expeditions to the Poison Jungle looking for resources
and trying to make sure no dragons were hiding from her there. Almost
all of them died; the rest are the ones who brought the stories back to
you. One of the expeditions was sent to burn down the jungle, because
Wasp wanted no more trees anywhere. None of those dragons survived. We
helped the jungle make sure of that.
to Swordtail, about the
Poison Jungle The Poison Jungle

4-5

-----

If we set it free, the Poison Jungle could devour the continent
for us, and all the HiveWings, too. If I set it free. I could unleash
the jungle and send it forth to strangle our enemies. I won't, though. I
don't want a Pantala covered in poisonous, dragon-eating plants. I want
the Pantala of the old stories; the giant forests that stretched from
shore to shore.
thoughts on setting the plants of the jungle
free The Poison Jungle
6

-----

Don't be a drama queen. They can help us.
to Nettle,
about her friends The Poison Jungle

17

-----

I could have left. Belladonna doesn't even know I could have
left them. But I didn't, because I have a purpose, and that purpose is
vengeance. I hatched for one reason: to destroy our enemies. That's why
I will always come back. Not for Belladonna or Hemlock. I come back so
that one day I can be the one who wipes out the HiveWings forever.

thoughts The Poison Jungle

28

-----

But of course we can't talk about that. We can't take a moment
to say, hey, things are a little better, aren't they? We can only talk
about the HiveWings and our fury and all the things we're going to do to
them. No time to pat you on the head or say "Thank you, Sundew."

thoughts The Poison Jungle

50

-----

What?! No one has ever offered to murder a frog for me
before!
to Willow about murdering a frog
The Poison Jungle
83

-----

Even after everything I just told her, even if she thinks I've
endangered her tribe and restarted a war she doesn't want … she still
loves me.
thoughts about Willow
The Poison Jungle
99

-----

Or just pause for a moment to be happy. That's what Willow
would say to do. After all the craziness with SilkWings and sneaking
through Hives and dealing with strangers, I'm back with her at last,
where I can just be myself.
thoughts about Willow
The Poison Jungle
115

-----

I'm not letting go now. I'm not ever letting go of her again.
If this is it, all our truth spilled over the table, then this is my
truth: I choose Willow. Even if she is a SapWing, and not Mandrake.

thoughts about choosing Willow over Mandrake
The Poison Jungle
150

-----

Wow. I was hoping we'd lose her, but I didn't think it would
happen quite that fast. I'm kidding! I'm sure she's fine. She can
handle anything, remember?
to Mandrake about Nettle getting
trapped in a plant The Poison Jungle

161

-----

I wasn't planning on doing splamflamp. Whatever that is.

to Bumblebee The Poison Jungle (book)|The Poison
Jungle
174

-----

We were trying to turn the HiveWing queen into our
mind-controlled zombie. We would have done that to her — the same
terrible thing she's done to her subjects. Instead we made her stronger
than any other dragon. We gave her a way to keep her claws on her
tribe's necks, and the power to use them against us. I thought we were
the good tribe. How could we do something like this?
thoughts
about Wasp and the breath of evil The Poison Jungle (book)|The
Poison Jungle
213

-----

But Hawthorn and Sequoia did terrible things, too. The
HiveWings would be right to want them to be punished … but they would be
wrong to want the same for the whole LeafWing tribe. So maybe … Maybe I
need to think about that, too. Hawthorn, Sequoia, and Wasp. I should be
angry at them — I can be furious at them. I can fight Wasp without
hating the entire HiveWing tribe. I can free the HiveWings and spare
their lives without betraying my quest. Because Wasp is the real enemy:
Wasp and her mind control.
thoughts about her true enemy

The Poison Jungle
247

-----

That is not a comforting answer, light of my life.

to Willow The Poison Jungle
119

-----

I think I get it. […] You're saying the future is up to us.
Whatever happens next, it's because of what we decide to do, not because
of some mystical force pointing us here or plopping us there.

to Bullfrog and Luna, about the The Lost Continent Prophecy|prophecy

The Flames of Hope
58

-----

I eat all the time! I ate a ... something ... this morning
while we were sorting Pyrrhian tree seedlings! Didn't I? I think I did.
The seedlings were very noisy, full of questions. It must be weird to
fly across an ocean when you're a tree. Not a common tree experience, I
suspect.
to her friends
The Flames of Hope

epilogue

-----

Me too. […] We need dragons who can see the brightest futures
so we can try to get there, even if it takes longer than we want it to.

to Luna
The Flames of Hope
epilogue

## Trivia

  - When it comes to garments, Sundew prefers wearing black, dark green,
    or midnight blue.
  - Sundew was in charge of hunting for every PoisonWing tribe feast.
  - When Sundew is reunited with Willow, the former uses her leafspeak
    to make violets grow in between them. Violets and their coloration
    have been used as a special code by lesbian and bisexual women
    throughout history.
  - On the cover of The Poison Jungle, Sundew is missing the gold flecks
    on her wings.