Saijitsu and the Styx Beast

Saijitsu never gloated, at least not in front of her parents, about her bonding of such an interesting dragonet. The three heads and three personalities were all quite distinctive, and it never took long for anyone to catch on to that fact.

While Sean was teaching at House Domina, the children of this royal family were involved in studies there and at home in Gelgela with their Usagi kin. Sean had one of the crafters in the House devise a portal which would make the trip much easier - though the dragons still had to use their own abilities to get there and back, as the mirror-stepping object wasn't big enough for even the smallest of the bunch. (And yes, the three headed dragon tried, on several occasions, to follow Saijitsu through it...)

By this time, Saijitsu was old enough to start causing her mother a bit of worry (not the normal, child-terrorist types that she herself was known for as a young kitling, but the oh-no-she's-going-to-mature-quickly type). She'd already made it clear that she knew who her future husband was going to be, a young man by the name of Bhaktar. He was a necromancer, a good one, dragon rider and sponsor - both, not just a bonder. Both of those things said he would be a fine man to pair up with the girl.

When she was ready.

Well, by the time she was fourteen, Saijitsu felt herself ready. Bhaktar had graduated and was helping out still around House Domina, but also was looking at aiding the other students Calebrindra and Zeramar in creating a whole new, slightly less squeaky-clean, school.

But they'd need a place to do that, too. It was Saijitsu who decided it ought to cross world barriers, into her world. She conferred with Zeramar, who thought the idea had merit. But it would be years, possibly even decades, before they'd be ready to take such a step. In the meantime, the dragon-group got to know one another better, enjoying each other's company or fighting or bragging.

Saijitsu blinked, tilted her head, and put her drink down on the huge wooden table nearby.

"I'll be right back," she said, and vanished abruptly. Though she wasn't truly 'apparating' per se, she teleported or moved through time-space somehow, much more quickly and easily than any bunny-girl should.

She found herself at a place dark and dim, but to her far from dismal. Mindspace was a place she'd been to on the sly several times, and now it called her more strongly than ever. In an underground place, filled with sounds no one else could hear and scents that would drive any animal insane, Saijitsu boldly walked around until she found who she was looking for.

It turned out to be a 'what' rather than a conventional 'who'.

She stepped up with a distinct lack of hesitation, to a long, brightly glowing if very low-to-the-ground creature of the Styx type. "Hello there, I'm Saijitsu, and you're Tempat Teduh, I think that's a nice name."

"Why thank you," the creature said. She was rather longer than she was tall, clearly built for low surfaces and caverns of sorts. No wings, it seemed that Saijitsu would choose only dragons without them. "You know what it means, then?"

Saijitsu grinned and looked at the Styxbeast with her ears coyly down, "it means Shady Place, do you know what my name means?"

The beast chuckled, put her own long ears up and said, "festival - you're so bright, like me."

Saijitsu and Tempat made whatever formal announcement they needed to, for her leaving Mindspace. She would return, most likely, as many creatures did to their place of birth. But for now, this shadow-magic weilding rather bright creature adjusted the floating, slowly twirling mirrorshards above her back, and when they came into allignment - both she and her newfound Usagi friend vanished back to House Domina.