Synnevath’s communication style is carefully cultivated and consciously constructed. You sense a deliberate care and effort in how she speaks: a serene and composed draconic mind that brings to mind a singular image: the rays of the sun piercing deep ocean depths—all of the light, with none of its warmth.
To behold Synnevath’s mindscape is to bear witness to innumerable greens: the deepest muddy algae, shimmering polished emeralds, sage and mint and jade and sea foam, the tender spring green of newly sprouts herbs, the shock of acid yellow-green lime wash, and cheerful swirls of chartreuse. All of these shades of green bloom and suffuse into one another like inks in water, always in motion, always changing, and always some shade of green. Over this, the dazzling lights that coruscate with the tempo of her heart and soul: most often it’s a slow and even sparkling, not too unlike a mirror ball, they constellate the green with a twinkling of silvers, whites, apricots, pale pinks. Oftimes, this greenscape is a canvas for rainbow metallic oil slick, (so much of her communication necessitates more than just endless green on green to emote properly). Other times those greens are veiled in a diaphanous rainbow that swirls and roils (not unlike like the surface of a soap bubble) when she’s feeling particularly passionate or incensed. At its baseline, though, those caustic shimmers undulate and dance across the surface of the mind, a beautiful sparkling that never feels intrusive; she would never inhibit this facet of her communication, but she does display a certain level of restraint for the benefit of those she speaks with.
Synnevath’s mindvoice is tactile-forward: it somehow invokes the sensation of a smooth, seamless laminar flow of water. This is when her spoken voice glides smoothly across the mind, water-cool and even-tempered. When she means to be determined or assertive, it swirls and eddies, almost tugging and pulling with the force and compulsion of an ocean current. In spite of this, it never feels oppressive, but it does give her a certain aura of self-assuredness, as though she intends to be a force that is not so easily diverted. Most often, though, her mental presence and voice are smooth and unobtrusive; as water tends to take the shape of whatever vessel it is contained in, so too is she an even-keeled communicator. Her thoughts seem to caress the mind in slow, waving undulations that sway gently through unseen currents, long and sensuous and as dense as a kelp forest. Her sense of calmness sussurates along the peripheries of thought, accentuated with a gentle sensation of effervescence that accentuates her spoken words. The little bubbles that punctuate each of her thoughts feel delicate frizzy, tingling and refreshing to the senses, a bit like carbonation. This is a vestige of a more buoyant nature that time and experience has tempered significantly.
Synnevath seems to affect a deliberate airiness, somewhat delicate, somewhat aloof in how she conveys her spoken words. The result is that she can sound simultaneously peculiar and endearing, especially when her childlike wonder intertwines with some random strand of deeper wisdom or observation.
Shades of milk-glass yellow and pale chartreuse flow together and around each other like dreamy, hazy layers of a watercolor wash on this medium-sized egg's upper shell. The lower half, partially buried in sand, is a much deeper, darker tisane of mottled and muddy greens, evocative of algae and gently waving plant matter. Where its two opposite halves are demarcated, muddy violet whorls blot the borders like delicate ink fingerprints.
The most remarkable feature is a strange, watery-looking translucent glaze that limns the entire egg. It is studded with a swirling profusion of translucent beading that winds along its shell like tiny bubbles. This gleaming water-dazzle effect is most pronounced along its uppermost curve, the part that seems deliberately angled skyward. When the daylight hits it just right, the glazed and bubbled surface gives this egg an uncannily liquid quality, not unlike a pool of cool, tranquil water. One touch will tell you that this is just a dragon egg, warm and firm to the touch and not-at-all as aquatic as it appears at first glance.
This egg's darker half is wreathed in a mantle of sand, allowing it to slant comfortably to one side. Positioned this way, the lighter half has an opportunity to bask in as much light as possible from the periodic rays of sunlight streaming down from the jagged fissure in the cavern's ceiling.
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2024-07-27 - Shining, Shimmering, Splendid
The chaotic but uplifting group hatching event of the DD2024 clutch. Thank you, everyone.
Shipfish, 004, 005, 006, 007, 009, 011, 012, 014, 015, 018, 019, 021, 022, 023, 024, 025, 027, 028, 030, 032, 033, 034, 035
2024-06-28 - Rifts
Dunespike Weyr is hit with a large earthquake, collapsing the Hatching Cavern and requiring that the eggs be lifted out to a safe place.
Shipfish, 001, 004, 006, 007, 009, 011, 012, 014, 015, 017, 018, 021, 022, 023, 024, 027, 032, 033, 035
2024-07-18 - [ 5-2 ] grin, bear
new occasions teach new duties.
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2024-07-18 - [ 5-1 ] heavy rain
They searched and called for them, they cried and begged, but it was to no avail.
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2024-07-17 - [ 4-5 ] vocal instrument
I could feel like this forever
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2024-07-17 - [ 4-3 ] strings on the sands
instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion
012
2024-07-16 - [ 4-2 ] adores, adored, will adore
softer musings
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2024-07-10 - [ 4-1 ] soft breeze soothes soul
her heart swelled and obeyed its power, like the tremulous tides of the ocean
012
2024-07-08 - [ 3-4 ] nothing gold can stay
the first inheritance
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2024-07-08 - [ 3-5 ] a new little truth
everything is sliding into focus now.
012
2024-07-07 - [ 3-3 ] petals
the moments passed as at play
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2024-07-02 - [ 3-2 ] savoir faire
the art of conversation lies in listening
012
2024-06-26 - [ 2-4 ] i want to exist like you
earth below, peace within
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2024-06-23 - [ 2-3 ] a tender shoot
moveo ergo sum
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2024-06-19 - [ 2-2 ] luminescence
“Something infinitely interesting.”
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2024-06-14 - [ 2-1 ] ab imo pectore
“your name is a golden bell hung in my heart.”
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2024-06-10 - [ 1-4 ] description
water breaks into ripples and sparkles
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2024-06-10 - [ 1-3 ] my own light
When is the aberration within the oyster considered a pearl?
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2024-06-06 - [ 1-2 ] absence, abeyance, absolution
“there are other worlds than these.”
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2024-06-04 - [ 1-1 ] heart beats
"There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness."
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2024-06-15 - Southeast
TBD
Shipfish, 012, 016, 022, 034