User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/Seven Tears Shed/@comment-2142396-20170318161728/@comment-7662967-20170319054012

Well, to be honest, they met the dragons two weeks ago at most, and while they do see Lutran (and therefore Grath) as dragons themselves, Grath's friends are a little bit more distant to them. Isan holds nothing against them and doesn't wish to harm them because they are the friends of his son's sister, but they aren't .. just being harshly realistic here .. citizens of the Vale of the Dragons. So for the vermin to save them, even putting their lives on the lines, the dragons are still a little withdrawn because they see all furbeasts as the same. To them, it's more like they went into the city to save their kind, they did, and that's good, but it still doesn't make them totally trustworthy. Isan actually does trust them more than he lets on (as you will see) but as king, he feels as though he needs to remain somewhat aloof for a while. Also, on the matter of them being unguarded, they are only in the sense that there aren't guards breathing down the backs of their necks. If they just decided to wander about the dragon palace alone, they wouldn't be alone for long, and they were told as much. The dragons do see themselves as superior to furbeasts, yes, and they'll come to see the flaw in thinking that. But to be honest, Lutran was the first furbeast who has lived with them in hundreds and hundreds of seasons, and while he's proved his worth, they sort of see him as an exception, because they really don't have any firsthand experience with furbeasts. And I'll agree that if it wasn't Romsca, Xzaris, Arashi, ect, things might have gone very badly for them thanks to that oversight.


 * Hehehe* That's a little secret of mine. While Romsca has a lot of demons of her own making haunting her .. it's not just her.

Yea, and Rasconza knows as much .. he figures he'll have to constantly be moving around, and plans to stay at see and make Ublaz come to him. That being said, yes, Ublaz is going to go after them all with a passion .. XD

Yep, Tai and Ting are Loki's decedents, and they have her level of brash sass :P Their mother, the former Majesty Deathbringer, was a lot easier to work with than they are. But then, they're a couple spoiled teenagers with way too much power.

That would be the question, wouldn't it? >:) Yea. Especially woodlanders. Because the final ultimatum is going to be the fact that Isan will force him to release his oar slaves if he actually would want to join the dragons. And that's both a matter of twisted pride and honest fear for his life. To him, the oar slaves are something he fought hard to get and keep, and also, he knows good and well they wouldn't hesitate to kill him. So while he just might be able to understand fighting alongside intelligent Monitors, he's not going to be able to get past that mental roadblock. :/

Selina is really one of the most messed up and emotionally scared characters in this story. Honestly I really /really/ want to write her side story, I will literally be in tears doing it, but I still plan to. She really has a horribly twisted thought-process. Rasconza doesn't care about her, and she knowns it, but the fact is, he saved her. He saved her just to work her to death, yes, but he did save her from death (or at least prolonged her life) So she is honestly willing to be his slave; she does not plan to leave even if she got the chance. (honestly I'm not sure how she got those scars, but yea, it could have something to do with that.)

Lutran is actually very creative, even if, as you pointed out, he uses his creativity to bloody ends. Yep, there was a dragon that he learned from, an older one that eventually died and gave him the forge. It was just a slowly dying art, and he brought it back. Well, that's Lutran's way of comforting. He hates thinking about the beasts he's lost, he's very much trying to move foreword. He never knew Grath's friends, but he can tell that losing them has hurt her deeply, and how he copes with loss is to become stronger and more deadly so he can assure it will never happen again and so he can avenge the dead. It's simply how he thinks, if there was a way he could make everything right for his sister, he would do all he could, and teaching her to be a coldblooded killer is the only way he can think to spare her this grief again. *shrug* He has forced himself to dwell on hatred instead of actually allowing himself to grieve, so that has festered into something truly nasty.

Grath's in a very depressed and worn out state right now, but yea, she is being too hard on herself. Yes, perhaps she hasn't ever been an overachiever, but she's willing to do what's right when needed. However, as in her mind, doing that did bring her friends to the emperor .. yea, she's just in a sad mindset at the moment. Well, they hadn't been apart /that/ long .. true, they had a close shave with death, but it worked out and quite frankly Grath's just glad they're all alive.

Yea, naturally .. if anything, her people were to blame, so she is too. Arashi is just completely fed up with the whole thing. She knows Conva was to blame, but to her, he paid for it with his life, and she's just .. done. I mean, that is her dead husband. And more importantly, her living daughter.

Oh yes. Romsca blames herself enough to take a considerable amount of verbal and physical abuse from Lutran, and the fact that she does her best not to retaliate proves how much she hates herself for what happened.

Well, it was the best choice he could possibly make. He would have liked to give them to Lutran, but he can tell that would end horribly, so he chooses to give them to Grath. And honestly, you have to admit he trusts Romsca enough not to look at pearls.


 * hehe* Yep. All six (*cough* seven *cough*) pearl holders are in one place, so yea, they've been activated. So this'll be fun XP