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1:19am Nov 9 2013
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"I'd rather carry you than walk." Ebony said, using her teeth and a wing to lift him awkwardly onto her back.
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1:05am Nov 10 2013
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"Do I get a lift to?" Bow Wielder said, almost wishing he wouldn't.
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1:19am Nov 10 2013
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Ebony briefly calculated how much weight she could carry. "Let's find out." she said, springing at him.
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12:08am Nov 11 2013
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Bow Wielder held back a yell as Ebony grabbed him.
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12:26am Nov 11 2013
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Ebony grabbed Bow Wielder in her forelimbs and kicked off the ground hard before she had a chance to lose her balance and crush him. She down-stroked hard and climbed into the air at a painfully slow pace. "You're lucky I'm a female." She grumbled. "Males aren't built to carry this kind of weight."
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12:29am Nov 11 2013
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"Why? You would think the males would be stronger." Bow Wielder replied. (disclaimer, this is hundreds of years ago) "But remember, they would have to fly whilst pregnant." Sword Master called down. "Oh yeah-did you just call me an unborn dragon?" "No, I implied it." Sword Master said in return.
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12:42am Nov 11 2013
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"If I was born a human, this would be the part where I drop you. But I'm better than a human." Ebony said to Bow Wielder. "Unfortunately for this situation, I'm not pregnant or nursing kits in my pouch, so I only have half the potential extra muscle mass a female carrying this weight would due to the lack of hormones that trigger said muscle mass to increase. Which means you are still in danger of being dropped if I can no longer take the strain."
(That's right Ebony, combat that mild sexism with racism! XD)
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12:48am Nov 11 2013
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"Well, I think she just called humans baby-droppers, which I haven't really heard before but overrules your comment." Bow Wielder yelled up at Sword Master.
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12:56am Nov 11 2013
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"I was referring to the sexism." Ebony said. "But how can humans not be baby droppers? The mewling things can't even hold on to anything with their arm nubs! I mean, avians are bad, but at least they're only completely helpless for a short time!"
(In which Ebony continues to abuse humans.)
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12:59am Nov 11 2013
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"The thing is, when we have babies we can hold things." Bow Wielder said. "Our arm nubs are fully functional by then."
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1:02am Nov 11 2013
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"But what if something happens to the parents when it's at that stage?" Ebony asked. "What then? It's helpless!"
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1:16am Nov 11 2013
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"Yes, but that's true with most things." Bow Wielder said. (Do you know what amuses me? I was going to say animals instead of things but realized he would have no idea humans are related to animals, let alone of evolution and stuff XD)
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1:25am Nov 11 2013
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(That's so true! O.o Ebony will be sure to educate them XD)
"I was thrown into a sewer an hour after my birth." Ebony said. "Most reptiles and fish hatch and off they go, the same is true for several birds. It's pretty much just mammals that are that bad, and even then most are not as helpless for nearly as long."
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1:03am Nov 13 2013
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(It also occurs to me, well is has occured to me several times, they would be speaking in pre-Shakespearean English too, but we will assume they are but Ebony can understand them because Ebony XD) "But once we are more matured we are far superior to the animals, look what we can make and do!" Bow Wielder said, gesturing below them at the farms surrounding the village. "I do not believe now is the time to be arguing about special superiority..." Sword Master said, staring ahead.
Before them was huge sections of scorched earth, burning trees and incinerated barns and houses. Trees had been smashed together, hills had huge craters and an open-pit gold mine they passed was now a giant bonfire, likely with all the miners as kindling. The Dragons had demolished everything in their path, with fires and death as far as they could see.
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1:17am Nov 13 2013
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(She has had her vocabulary translated into about every language, so that's not unrealistic at all XD)
Ebony snorted. "But you need to make your shiny little tools to survive. You became dependent on them." She gestured to the destruction below. "If something comes along and breaks them, you hope you can remake them before you die. I don't need to. I am my tools and gadgets. If i'm on a small island without fresh water, say, I either adapt my kidneys to remove the salt of the water or grow a supraorbital gland and become semi or even fully aquatic to hunt sealife. You, on the other hand, had better hope you know how to distill water and that the island has the resources you need for fishing."
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11:55pm Nov 13 2013
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Bow Wielder was silent for a moment, either shocked by the destruction or saying a little prayer for those caught in the Dragon's path, then spoke. "Yes, but the thing is your body can only do so much, you can't live inside your body, your body can't conveniently store uneaten fresh food for you, your body can't fence in animals, turn grains into dough, smelt metal into finely crafted swords, or protect a king from siege-or even lay siege to a kingdom!"
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12:11am Nov 14 2013
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Ebony snorted. "Why would I never need or want to? If I cannot deal with the temperature I move on or dig a hole. I'm a carnivore, why would I give up the thrill of the chase for salted meat and livestock? Why would I align myself with a ruler when I can be free to do as I please? Why would I need a sword when I can crush anyone that stands in my way between my wings and jaws?"
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12:54am Nov 15 2013
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"Aha, you didn't say anything about fencing in animals!" Bow Wielder said triumphantly.
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12:57am Nov 15 2013
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"I said livestock." Ebony said. "Those are fenced in animals."
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1:09am Nov 15 2013
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"Oh yeah..." Bow Wielder said, disappointed he had missed that.
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