Sleeping Dragon Topaz

She nods slowly as he speaks, her throat sounding a low and cautious hum. "I've seen the Maplewood," she says to him, her tail swishing uneasily. "How long a travel is it?" she then asks, hoping for a more concrete answer. A little ways away could be an hour or a day walking, depending on how you looked at it. As she spoke, her body began leaning forwards-- she forced it to lean towards Dio, more than just away, but it ached to move regardless. To stop herself from falling forward on her toes, she takes a step forwards with one paw to balance herself-- then sits.

The locusts were the real reason she'd been forced to settle down-- her health had been less than mediocre. She really would've ended up doing so anyway, but the famine sped up the process a little bit.