dycondra, where all worlds converge

[goldblaze]

A man walked down the hallways of his castle, his footsteps echoing as he stepped, as well as when the guards patroling the castle stepped as well. When he walked past the guards, they stood at attention, for he was the lord of the castle. He was well built and strong looking, wearing the blue and silver crest of his family, a feathered dragon rampent, he turned the corner, and waved to the guards to open the door, and he entered the room to the castles greatest prize and tressure. A beautiful silver, blue, and black feathered dragon sat in a gold plated cage with a pillowed floor, her feet where shackled with shackles plated with silver and jewls, looking both stuning and still limiting her ability to run, her wings were tied down with cloth inlaied withmetal to prevent it being cut or broken or pulled, her crest was a stuning site, as was her bejewled collar, which restricted her magic as well as complamented her feastured, it had a golden chain running from it to the wall, and finally she wore a lose muzzle on ehr snout, didn't stop her from opening her mouth, but it prevented her from biting or raising her voice to anyone. The over all affect was that of a creature that was stuningly beautiful and strong, yet under the control of the lord, which was the effect he was after. After admiring his pet for a little while he finally spoke. "so how are you today my sweet?" he said smiling at her.

[RyuArashi]

Aneira stretched slightly, her crest fanning out and her limbs stretching as much as her restraints would allow. They didnt bother her much anymore, she had grown so used to them that they were just a fact of life.

"Good morning master. I am very well today." She cooed to the man. Part of it was play, something she learned to do with the humans. Use a cute silky voice and they would do anything you asked. Her face usually held a slightly eager to please look on it when humans were around, she tried to make the captivity as pleasurable as possible. The more she played along, the better she was treated.

Fluffing her feathers, Aneira preened what she could to try and show off. That was one thing she had a hard time controlling. She knew her feathers were considered beautiful by the humans, and she couldnt help trying to show them off every chance she got.

[goldblaze]

The man smiled again, "you know my dragon, I do have servents that will grrom your feathers." as he said this he stuck his hand inside of her cage, expecting her to go to it and nuzzle agenst as a cat would. "I will be having a party tonight to celibrate a knighting, I believe you already know that many will be expecting the jewl of the land to be there." he said, she was one of only three known magic dragons that were kept in captivity like this, the feathered dragon had been taken when she was very young, spared by a knight that had slayed her parented, and instead captured to live a life in the relative confort of being a lords pet.

[RyuArashi]

Aneira ducked her head towards her masters hand, putting her crest over it in a way that was almost asking for a scratch. She never openly admitted it, but she loved being scratched at the base of her crest.

"I do love entertaining your guests." She said with a slight fluff of her feathers. The sun hitting them through one of the windows cast highlights to dance about the room from the shine of her feathers.

[goldblaze]

His grin stayed on his face as he scratched her right under her crest." I know you do, if it wern't for your jewlrey we have you running around the dinning hall now wouldn't we?" he said, then waved to two servents. " make sure to keep your feathers still long enough for them to get you groomed and decorated." what he tended to mean by decoration was some jewlrey and some paints applyied to her feathers to highlight her colors, sometimes even some rings over her talons, which were always kept filed to a very dull point, couldn't even cut bread. The lord turned around and started to walk away, then spoke over his shoulder as if he just remembered a apsent throught. " your muzzle will be as usual kept tight enough that you can't speak durring the procedings, as you probably know my dear."

[RyuArashi]

Aneira let out a small sigh, she hated it when she had to have her muzzle tightened. She understood her masters caution, but she still didnt like it.

"Yes I understand master." She said, her voice slightly wavering as she struggled to keep any whisper of her sadness out of it. Aneira put on a smile and fluffed her feathers.

"I look forward to this evening all the same, and I promise not to move a feather out of place for the groomers." Aneira demonstrated by laying out on the pillows in her cage, sitting quite still.

[goldblaze]

The groomers started to work, using brushes made from her own fur, they were apparently quite popular as some of the softest brushes anywhere, while the other one placed jewlery on her body in verious places, even attached some to her feathers with clips. while the groomers handled her looks, another one quickly took her waste out as well as refilled her water bowl, the groomers brushed her down and seemed to obsesse and clean every feather as she was being prepared, it seemed to take quite a while before they were finished, and a guard witha key reagensted her muzzle for the tightness the lord had asked for, leaving her to wait for the feast to start while the servents left, giving her e a couple moments of privte time before she was to be walked to the cerimony then the party.

[RyuArashi]

Aneira sat through the grooming with ease. This part always helped her relax, and it was one of the reasons she almost never thought of escape. Oh of course she wanted out, but it wouldnt be so bad if she stayed for a little while longer.

That thought kept her stuck in her cage, entertaining humans. But at least she was cared for, ate the best food, and was groomed daily. She had almost anything a pet could want. The thing she longed for most though was the open sky, to stretch her wings and just fly in any direction.

A small sigh escaped her as she stretched herself out the best she could on her pillows. She really did enjoy the humans excitement with her, but she wished she could do it on a more even level. The chains and muzzle were just annoying. Its not like she would try to hurt anyone anyway. But they had to be there for peace of mind she supposed.

Resting her head against her paws, thoughts wizzed through Aneira mind as she contemplated her life and what she was to do that evening. Not that it was difficult at all, with her looks, to flatter the humans. Aneira absently scratched at the muzzle, though her claws were so blunt they did nothing.

Aneira closed her eyes, resting while she could.

[goldblaze]

Within a hour of so some guards came to escort her to the dinning hall ways, they tended to be needed both to keep her going where she was supposed to, as well as keeping people from pulling her feathers or some such thing that people tried to get, though most trips were relativly peaceful. one of the guards took her leash and lead the way as four other guards stood around her, her walks through the halls ways were always accomponyed by friendly scratches or pats, finally she was in the dinning hall, all the tables had been moved to make room for the knighting, as always she was brought over to her pellow seat and made to sit proper and dignified while the offical stuff was being done.

[RyuArashi]

The guards were relatively nice to Aneira, the occasional scratch and pat not uncommon. Aneira admited she was thankful they were there for her, she tended to wander the wrong way if not guided slightly, just because she wouldnt be paying attention to anything but how she looked and how everyone thought of her.

Once the official knighting began Aneira grew slightly bored, but she kept her pose well, trying her best to impress the small crowd that had gathered for the ceremony. Her feathers shone with brilliant radiance due to the windows letting in the sunlight. The reflections cast all over the hall, making prisms dance over the floor, ceiling and walls.

Aneira watched as the man who was to be knighted went through the rituals, not very exciting. The human hardly even seemed to show interest in her, so Aneira dismissed him. She gazed around the room, trying to catch eyes more often than not.

[goldblaze]

And I knight you, sir Golden Blazedragon, knight of the court, you may rise, the new knight rose and glanced around, finally glancing at her and giving her a small smile before bowing to the lord, how raised a cup and declared the feast to bigin, but not before Golden said. " I hope that I will be as much worth to the land, as my name inplies" which was met with luaghs, before the tables came out and food was served, as well as the wine and beer. Aneira was served small piece of food that she coulld fit between her teeth and wine to sip at durring these feasts, though there were some cases were the lord was kind enough to allow her muzzle to come off long enough for her to eat from the well cooked food, and sometimes even socialize with the people, espesally on days that she was to sing, as far as a dragon would have gone, she had a avrage voice, but to humans her singing would be amazing, so on some very special events she was brought before everyone to sing, those tended to be the only nights were the muzzle would be compleatly off all night long.

[RyuArashi]

Aneira wished this was one of the few nights she was to sing, she loved singing even if she didnt like her voice very much. The humans seemed to like it, so she liked it.

The food that she was able to push past the muzzle wasnt bad, but it was in such small amounts that it hardly counted as eating. The wine was good though, and she drank it without hesitation.

Drinks that would normally intoxicate humans had no effects on Aneira, being a dragon, she was virtually immune to any intoxicant. Due to this she was allowed to drink wine without any worry about side effects, who knows what a drunken dragon could do.

When the knight smiled at Aneira, she couldnt help but look back at him. Perhaps he was not as boring a human as she had suspected. Aneira slipped her crest up quickly, flashing blue. Her feathers fluffed out a little and rippled, casting more light around the room.

[goldblaze]

The knight sat next to the king, which was right in front of the young dragness's seat. Right now her leash was chained to the floor while she recived tidbits of food and pats and scritches from the guests. "she is quite beautiful, lord Sindrago" the knight said to the lord. He nodded and smiled. "quite, oen of my knights brought her in as a hatchling after he had slayed her parents, and knowing that there were some dragons kept as pets in other lands, I decided to take this one and raise her, it may be that the others are raised for fights, but I decided to raise her for beauty, as that seems to fit her much better consitering her type and personality." the knight nodded and listened politly, ocasionally glancing at Aneira and tosing her a small pice of food.

[RyuArashi]

Aneira listened as her master and the knight talked. She was surprised that the knight would take any interest in her. Keeping her ears sharp, Aneira played her part and ate the scraps the knight tossed her. She pretty much ignored everyone else, even when they would come up and scratch her.

[goldblaze]

After a couple hours the party wound down, and Aneira was taken back to her cage by her guards to sleep, though they lossened her muzzle and gave her some meat to chew on, before leaving her alone to rest.