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On a hill in the highlands of eastern Kalimdor, there is a grove of trees whose leaves blossom blood-red all the year long. Nestled in their roots and shaded by their mighty branches is the clutch of the Aspect of the red dragonflight, Alexstrasza the Life-binder, Dragonqueen. She reaches out to caress her eggs with a slim hand modeled on the elves who have their kingdoms to the west. They will hatch soon, she knows.
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Yes, that's very fair of the beavers. On the other hand: she is definitely smarter than a beaver. She constructs an ambush site in the dam the beavers are building, and she waits.
Okay this will take careful timing and perfect finesse, but she believes that she and Kelt can successfully snatch these beavers.
She gives the little squeak of attack and dives to snatch a beaver to carry it to its new home!
Beaver: is slightly heavier than anticipated. Also less than cooperative on the 'staying still so as not to keep changing your lift's center of gravity' front.
Nrrgh she! Will not! Be defeated!
She flaps as hard as she can and tries to steady the beaver as much as possible, and goes for the beaver's new home!!!! Beaver this is for your own good.
It can be inferred from the beaver's behavior that it is skeptical of this claim.
Kelt meets her at the new dam site with the other five beavers in tow, all caged up.
The beaver can just get over it, she is Ranaestrasza, daughter of Alexstrasza, and she will not be defeated by a beaver!
She successfully brings the beaver to the new dam site, without dropping it even once, looking very pleased with herself. She did just bring the one beaver, but! But Kelt is bigger than she is, and, and, okay actually the cage idea was way better than just literally picking up a beaver and flying it over here, but you know what, she succeeded, and that's all that matters in the end.
Indeed it does!
Okay now to help get the beavers settled in. ... Probably the best thing to do there is to go away and let them do their thing, because dragons and dragonkin are kind of intimidating. They can keep Careful Watch over the beavers and see if they make their dam at an acceptable location?
Once the dragons depart, the beavers spend a while sniffing around their new spot. Eventually it's deemed Acceptable, or at least too much trouble to get back to where they were, and they start work on construction again.
Yay! Mission success!
She cuddles Kelt in celebration of this achievement, sending more lovelovelove at her.
Ranaex likes being so well liked! And being helpful! She's learning lots of new things and making lots of new friends and everything is pretty great!
The beavers taken care of and Kelt properly snuggled, she chirps a goodbye and flies off to go see how Mom is doing. Is that weird strangely colored dragon still there?
Oh, all right then. That's a bit of a disappointment, but there's weird time stuff going on, so she'll probably find out when she's older. She can still find Mom so she gets good and snuggled!
"Hi Mom! The beavers have been moved! Where'd the yellow dragon go, and actually why were they yellow, are lots of dragons yellow?"
"The yellow dragon was Mezadormu, and he is a member of a different family, the bronze dragonflight."
"There's the red, which is us. The bronze. The green, the blue, the black. And a few smaller clans, here and there."
"Of the five main dragonflights, each was given responsibility for a part of the world by the Titans, who shaped Azeroth when it was young, because I and four others did them a great service. To Neltharion and the blacks, the earth, its substance and form. To Malygos and the blues, magic and all its uses. To Ysera and the greens, nature and all growing things. To Nozdormu and the bronzes, time and its conservation. And to me and my reds, they set the task of protecting all life, dragon and mortal alike."
"Not all, perhaps," Alexstrasza smiles. "But yes, as much as you can manage. Your brothers and sisters and cousins and I are also here to do the same."