"Those are fantastic! What a wonderfull collection of flowers you two have found! Lets get them in some water."

Illilli grabbed an empty pot that looked big enough and put water in it for the flowers. She set the pot on the closest table and made a gesture to invite them over so they could all have ...

Illilli grinned, the return of her friends and the work she had accomplished had restored her spirit.

"Thanks! I figured it was about time I got some things done in here. Clean feels so good." Illilli leaned back and spread her arms wide indicating the much more orderly and roomy feeling cavern ...

Illilli enjoyed soaking in the hot water until her fingers got all pruny. She climbed out of the tub and contemplated her clothing situation as she wrung out her hair and looked for something to hang her leathers on. The scent of the lavender soap hung about her in a relaxing cloud.

She clipped a ...

Illillli continued her puttering around in the cave.

It was the work of a few short, painful, and slightly disorienting moments to return to what she considered her normal self. Well, as normal as someone who shifted forms could be. She looked for and put on her ratty-tatty and much worse for the ...

This will be my 4th year at Dragon*con. Anything Gaming, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy can pretty much be found out there. My husband likes to go dressed as Usagi-Yojimbo.

Lotsa fun. I reccommend going to it if it is comfortable affordable. (We drive what feels like a day just to get out of Texas, and then ...

Illilli puttered around in the cave on her own. The retelling of what turned out to be her ancestoral story, and not just a family children's tale had hit her hard and left her quite dazed.

It was a rough thing for her to realize her family line had such dark beginnings. She new the rest of the ...

Illilli- Human-dragon hybrid who tends to be too industrious for her own good.

Writer tend to encounter flurries of "Work" interupting posting...

*sigh*

If you can't pick a permanent (like me).... maybe try playing with henna.

It can last for several weeks if it sets really well on your skin.


I had shooting stars across my shoulders for Dragon Con a couple years ago and they lasted a few weeks.

"The people had plans for their Ssssisquessssstichtol. Yick'Ti was very careful to keep her well bound with the blood magics. She wasn't mistreated, but neither was she free. She could not harm them, or leave the temple grounds. A few times at night she tried to escape by changing to a human form, a ...

Illilli recited the list of her ancestors, it was a little boring but well presented.

"After you said her name, it kinda clicked that it might be Annillilliana. The stories Grandma told me were about a dragoness with the same name as my ancestoral matriarch..."

She held her wings out and stretched ...

"Anna?" Illilli boggled, her mind going down a different track from the riches they merely had to claim in order to make this place truly a comfortable home.

Why did that name sound so familiar?

Growing up, her mother had placed an importance on Illilli's learning her maternal line.

Illilli began ...

"I haven't either..." Illilli shrugged.

"I don't know much myself, only I didn't know about this..." She waved a taloned hand in front of her chest, "Until now. And I'm in my twenties..." Illilli tried to find something related to the conversation, yet wasn't too depressing.

"You said you saw ...

Once Illilli had calmed down from the semi-random stick tossing, she stood up and looked at Ander.

"Yeah, I get a headache when I do magic... and my markings" she ran ahead of both Geldenwing and Ander then turned around and looked back over her tiny shoulder, "change colors... Like Geldenwing says ...

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/loquat.html

It doesn't like really hard Freezes...

Very wicked tart fruit though...

Better than Cane toads... Gross...

I love squirrels except when they are stealing the fruit off my loquat tree in the spring... then they are "Hairy Tree-Rats"... but after the 2-3 week fruit season they go back to "awww how cute!"