Gliding on the cool breeze, the dragon made her way toward the school building, circling overhead, then landing near the door.

Wings folded against her back as she nudged her way into the building, letting the door close behind her. Blue eyes then gazed around the area, before she called out, Shauri?, Briarius?, is anyone here?

I'm doing well Shauri, she smiled, and purred softly at the heartfelt hug.
I stopped by to see you about enrolling, after all, I'm still not quite sure what all I am capable of with my magic, other than ribbons and a healing every once in awhile.

I don't really like to use my healing though..., I tend to overdo it and wear myself out to the point of exhaustion.

The dragon followed Shauri toward the Main Office, listening for a moment. Perhaps I am Shauri, but I rarely ever use my healing ability and when I do, its only on others, I never use it on myself.

I believe Aurthur was thinking of enrolling as well, but right now he's resting with the young ones. Icewing though is still a bit on the skittish side since his encounter with the wyverns, but we're trying not to push him.

Upon reaching the office, she settled as comfortably on the floor as she could. I've been keeping away from fights also, after all, Aurthur wants me to take it easy.

Well.. it wasn't exactly wyverns, but their spirits, two of them possessed both my mate and Icewing, literally threw me into a tree, I don't remember much afterwards except for waking up inside on my couch.

Kitty helped remove the spirits, and our son has been quiet ever since, I don't blame him for being frightened.

Reaching up to grasp a blank piece of paper, she then wrapped her tail around a nearby pen, scrawling on the paper almost illegibly, but if Shauri looked close enough, she might just be able to make out Icer.

Perhaps a portal would help, it would at least ease the fear, and perhaps..
she stared at the piece of paper then spoke softly.

Perhaps I should learn to write... first.

Well, scrunching up her snout as she heard Shauri, I tend to rather dislike my humanoid form, its not comfortable for me, I much rather stay this way and I've always used my tail.., though I really haven't practiced writing.

Thinking for a moment, she smiled to the one Shauri then spoke with, I've learned to read though.

"Sweet.... Thanks Melody."

Sha'uri winked to Melody and moved to the office door, leaving Icer with Melody.


She knocked on the door rapping lightly with a spunky little rhythm, cracking open the door just a tad.

"Yello! Green and blue... Hey you. I hear you've got a minute?"

She stepped inside and paused right there, closing the door beside her. She knew he'd sense her condition and she watched him closely on his reaction to the little bundle in her womb....

"A few actually..."

She gently began...

"My son Bryce is back..."

She didn't know he'd been to the school already.

"And so is his father, Triv. We had a lot of catching up to do. Life is a strange thing sometimes. I never dared to hope.. or even thought I'd see him again. Now that he's back... I don't want to be without him. Yeah, I'm with child again."

She paused.

"Anway, Icer is out there with Melody getting signed up for classes. She says that her mate and her son might be coming to sign up, too. But, ever since they were all attacked by wyverns, her son is .... hesitant to leave their home. I wouldn't blame him, the poor thing. So, I offered to see about putting up a portal between their home and here. Icer was grateful for the chance. I still need to put up those others, would it be all right to put one in for them, too? It would make them all feel safer, I'm sure."

"Your son..."
He didn't want to give the secret away so he shielded his thoughts by thinking of trivial things.

"I am glad that Mistress Icer is finally getting some proper training."

Melody quickly wrote and looked at the scrawled paper.

"...and let's sign you up to make better use of your draconic form manipulating fine objects."

"You had mentioned both very briefly"

The Headmaster scrambled his thoughts even more.

"As far as portals go, you know my feelings on them."

The Headmaster focused his thoughts on the subject of portals.

"Nothing...I just don't want too many entry points to the school that need be monitored. We can enchant Mistress Icer and her family to be teleported at the first sign of danger."

"But then the doors of FAF closed and Triv died and .... Bryce was born and... it's such a long story. Suffice to say I wasn't allowed to pursue him for it was not for me to find the gem Triv's soul was trapped in. There was a prophecy involved. By the time it was fulfilled by Bryce and I was able to resurrect Triv, I had long since been with another. Yeah, another mistake worse then the one you witnessed."

"Galen Draganescu was his name. He really did a number on me and I was gullible enough to believe it. Though I'll give him credit for one thing; Galen was good to Bryce and helped me raise him right. Galen left me at the alter in the worst possible way...."

She clenched her jaw, lips pursed together tightly and her eyes hardened. It was obvious she was still scarred by it all. Yet, in a way, she was glad it had happened or things might've been worse.

"Triv was there to see it. I had already given Galen my word to marry prior to Triv's gem being returned, which allowed me to ressurect him. I think I died inside then, the day I had to tell Triv."

She shook off that thought and sighed.

"Anyway, after that fiasco with Galen, that's when I locked myself away, just wanting to die and Triv took Bryce away to explore Exodii."

"I had no idea if I'd see them again. I didn't dare hope of it, nor speak much of it. That's when I knew that it wasn't so much Galen's treatment of me that had me so depressed, it was losing Triv again... and again... and again ... and still, again. That's why I wanted to die. I was mad at myself, the world and everything in or around it."

"Oh, I finally snapped out of the depression enough to function, but I always felt half dead. Even though things got better after I came back to RhyDin, I still felt less then whole.... until he came home with Bryce. I think we were both dead until then. We both felt it when we saw each other and knew it was time to be a family for once. And so we were married right away ..."

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner or have you there at the wedding. We just wanted to do it and not wait anymore. I almost performed it myself, like you did with mother, but I knew I'd never hear the end of it from my boys so, they were the witnesses and Corellon performed it. That's why I'm back here, to tell you my news... I wanted you to be the first to hear it."

Of course, with Icer right out there, she would be the next to hear. She just hoped Bri would understand, needed his understanding and blessing, too... and support to tell Tina later.

Her smile blossomed!
"Thanks Bri.... your the best!"
Moving to him, she hugged him heartfully and then headed back to the door.
"I'll tell Icer then."

She shut the door behind her as she left, moving over to the desk where Icer and Melody were apparently just finishing filling out paperwork.

"Icer, I've got bad news, good news and good news with a surprise. So here goes. I'll give you the bad stuff first.. Bad news is, Bri doesn't want to allow the portal on school grounds. Good news, I can create a brooch or wand or ring or whatever item you feel would be best for you all to deal with."

"Anyway, it'll hold specific teleport spells designed so that it's easy for you to use, even your son could do it with a simple phrase to take you from home to school and another simple phrase for when you want to go back home. If you are all touching the one who is using the item, then it will also teleport them along. That way, you can all come and go together."

"Thing is, The one using the item will have to be standing specifically on a set spot to activate it. We'll pick a spot at your place and a spot just outside the front gate here to teleport between. Once I know that, it won't take but a week to make the item. It'll be good for twenty five trips to school and twenty five to go home, so every so often I'll need to refill it. Which... I could set up two items so that while I'm filling up the one, the other can be in use. That'll work."

"Oh, by the way, I got married and I'm pregnant." she nonchallantly added that good news with a surprise in it, scratching her chin as she spoke. Grin. Then she quickly continued.

"So! Do you have time now to pick out the teleports spots?"