User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/The Ocean's Echoes/@comment-2142396-20160827185236/@comment-7662967-20160828063458

Erm ... no .. not really. They aren't very peaceful at all really. They do keep a stand-off approach to Sampetra, mostly because they don't see them as a very dangerous threat ... for several well explained reasons that come to light in 'Seven Tears Shed'. They do have an 'eye for an eye' philosophy about the situation and life in general, and in their minds, the vermin are hostile to them and have taken over part of their territory. Not that they terribly begrudge them the land they took, after all, they did sell it to Scound and they do not need it. Their fear is these furbeasts will populate their island and eventually drive them to extinction, so they keep them penned inside their walls. This fear is not at all unwarranted, while they are stronger and larger, they reproduce much slower than the regular beast, and if Sampetra had the run of their island in the mindset they have now, bloody wars would be fought, but the vermin would eventually triumph from sheer numbers. Lutran just brings fuel for the fire, and the ability to shoot, something dragons and horses cannot do.

In regard to Romsca, the dragons are very impressionable. They see all those aside from their kind as 'Furbeasts' or 'Wingbeasts', they don't care about 'woodlander' or 'vermin'. So being, they are willing to accept beasts as they are if they prove brave and loyal, something very important to them. When Lutran doesn't forgive and forget in kind, they find it wrong and upsetting.

Nope. He can't. And he still hasn't had one, thanks to Lutran (who acts like a real jerk when you first meet him, mostly out of shock, frustration, and anger about Romsca and Barranca ... though becausehe's Lutran he kind of takes it out on everyone.) *Haha* don't they? There was a love triangle between Conva, Barranca, and Arashi, and as children they had a relationship like Romsca, Rasconza and Xzaris, so Arashi and Barranca are no strangers. XP

Ublaz is still mortal, and to answer why he was so negligent with Xzaris, he didn't really figure he'd live. Mostly he wanted to have him die in agony ... because he thinks the Pearls are at the bottom of the sea and somebeast has to suffer, but also, he's preoccupied with Rasconza's defense. And as to why there wasn't more action, it's cause I felt super run down and lame for that part, which I //despised//. I needed to put a real, heated battle for Rasconza (which I still need and plan to do) To make it seem more real and offer an explanation for the ease that Romsca had.

She was indeed ... it was not in any way one of her more glorious plans. It was a hairbrained chance and she took it, because her emotions are what she reacts on. As soon as she heard, she made the choice to save Xzaris, and she was going to do it. (And don't forget she's feeling pretty invincible too)

Sagitar is impatient and easily apt to become disgusted, especially with someone like Shilo. Idealy, such a weakling would never be accepted into the ratguard, but this is her son. And as she has no plan of having any more children, is her only heir. When he was born, she was glad, he was a son like she wanted. But he was weak, not built to be a great soldier, or at least, he was slow to develop. Sagitar expects results fast, maybe not as a kit, but at least by the time he was six seasons. But that was not to be.

It was because his leg, which he'd also counted as lost, healed completely, and every other wound seemed healed. I didn't write that part very well, but Shilo tells him it's dark in the dungeons and then pulls a hood over his head to get him and Romsca past Rumgut.

(I'll be back)