Sleeping Dragon boom boom boom feel it in the mmm

Reposted for timeline/threadlog purposes. Third time's a charm? :/

Set April 21. @Thuringwethil, Magpie is in heat and I was tipsy when I wrote this a few days ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It was as if her life had been in slow motion, building with a painful slowness that had made her wish for it to both continue and release all at once. Continue, for the anticipation was pleasant in its own way, and she feared the result-- but release, for she thought she knew what the result could be, and she longed for it. Magpie had been drifting in a limbo for months after her second birthday, knowing what she desired, but both afraid and unsure of how to obtain it. And even when she thought had found a path toward it all, she was more uncertain of the requirement that she leave all her beliefs of love and life behind to pursue it.

Was it worth the sacrifice of the Corvidae tradition she had been raised in...? To give up all opportunities for love, for the one love of another? To give up the change of scenery for the supposed stability of a single homeland? Drageda, itself, had already taught the young woman that even a solid claim did not mean safety; not for Sleeping Dragon, nor the vibrant forest that had preceded Drageda's claim.

She was still unsure, but something had finally awoken within the Corvidae. With the waxing moon, her own desire had grown; but it was a desire that was primal and new, one different than those that had driven her all these months. It was not for children, or power, but a need deep within her body that seemed to have no answer. Magpie was aware of what it meant; it was the need for a male, though that was like to result in children she was not yet prepared to care for, and too early in her tenure as the Dragon's Beta. Her thoughts were of Summer, and his golden eyes that had been only hers. If only they had met now, when they were not too young. She could make him a King, and he could make her a Queen.

Magpie paced, restless; if she had known this was what the awakening would truly be, she would have asked her sister for advice on how to deal with it when there could be no release.