no one really knows what the ocean hides
but you and I, bird, we’re gonna find out

Mother and father have claws – she has seen them! Their bodies have an unnatural ability to shift and mold into some greater, something more fearsome. From both near and far, Reia has observed them during their hunts. It’s truly a sight to see – almost like a dance – but to this day, she has been unable to mirror them. Her body doesn’t contort into a dragon’s or even a tiger’s; she is stationary, boring.

But, at least she portrays some properties and is able to still consider herself a hunter like them.

Out of frustration, Reia wreaked havoc on a den of jackrabbits. It was easy enough to follow the adult to the buried hole, and from that point it was only made easier. Flames licked her lips before blazing into the hole. Only after the screeches concluded did she claw and dig until she finally reached the family of rodents – offspring and both parents.

Reia wasn’t hungry, only irritated.
As to not waste it entirely (her parents raised her not to waste), she gripped an adult and left the others behind.

In her brief travels, however, she found herself nearly face-to-face with a sunbathing dragon. Instinctively, she almost yells excitedly thinking it’s father, but the scent – and even the color – is all wrong. With the rabbit still gripped in her jaws, Reia inclines her head inquisitively. Her silver eyes sweep across him but eventually focuses on his face. He is new, yet he smells of family. Finally dropping her kill, she asks, ”Who are you?” Unafraid, Reia doesn’t at all peddle backward from him or shy from his intense stare. Instead, she matches it with her own and lifts her head defiantly. Blue flames crackle down the length of her crest and tail and lick the rigid scales across her body, obviously a child of brimstone and fire like her father.

and I'll be next to you when the lights go out