looking for heaven found the devil in me; any

[Harmonia]

It didn't occur to Ajatar to be anything but a curious young child, despite her upbringing. Her lazy, absent mother that stuck around just to use her and show her off to the others. Her grandfather was a terrible beast and said such horrible things about her. She was isolated in this Pangea land, which looked like home but felt like a shirt two sizes too small, and hadn't met a single other foal. She knew things the way most children do, with prying eyes and eavesdropping. She looks then to her mother, sleeping lazily in the sun, as though she didn't have a child to watch. It made Ajatar angry for a bit.

"I think my mother is afraid of me," she says, honestly. Despite her strange scales she is rather sweet and normal. It didn't occur to her to be anything but.

"My name is Ajatar," she says, nodding readily. "Nice to meet you, Rodrik. Have you lived here long?" Like all of the sweet new children she had no idea about the history of Beqanna, much less what happened to make it become what it did. She knew only thing - a magicless mother, a barren desert, and a world outside she knew nothing of.

"My grandfather is afraid of me," she said with a conspiratorial nod. "He called me The Reckoning." She doesn't understand this word or phrase, but feels it is important. After all, her grandfather was a scary creature.

HARMONIA

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