Chapter 1: The Quiet Inheritance Ovted Fatash grew up in a narrow stone house on the quieter edge of the merchant district, where the guild bells rang twice a day and the smell of ink and sealing wax drifted through the windows. To every neighbor and client, the Fatash family was simply respectable: Rethak, polished spokesman for the merchant guild; Seval, the gifted nurse whose waiting room never stayed empty long; and their only daughter, a quiet, bright-eyed girl who already seemed to know which herbs eased a fever before anyone asked. No one suspected otherwise. Rethak wore tailored coats of deep charcoal and muted pearl gray that caught the light the same way his eyes did—violet, almost luminous when candlelight struck them at the wrong angle. He moved through noble salons and guild halls with flawless etiquette, voice low and steady, choosing words the way other men chose weapons. His grandfather had been a shapeshifting healer whose barriers flashed like mirrored moonlight; Rethak had inherited only the quiet half of that gift. His shields were simple, invisible things—pressure and presence rather than reflection—but he almost never raised them. Persuasion was cleaner. Safer. No one outside the house knew the dragon blood ran in him at all. The pearl dragon who had once worn human skin and never flown home again had thinned into something almost forgettable: a faint durability in Rethak’s bones, a calm that storms could not rattle, and those eyes he explained away as “a family eccentricity from the old trade routes.” Seval kept her own secrets just as quietly. Half-vampire, half-human, she had taken the hunger she was born with and turned it into a scalpel. She worked the clinic in the back rooms of their house, hands cool and certain. She could feel injury before the patient finished describing it—a wrongness in the blood, a shadow under the skin. Her healing drew on life itself rather than holy light: growth, vitality, the stubborn will of the body to keep going. When the need was desperate and no one else was watching, she would prick her own wrist and let a single drop fall into a dying patient’s veins. For a few precious hours they gained strength and regeneration beyond mortal limits. Then she would bind the wound, burn the cloth, and never speak of it again. The occasional medical blood draw was enough to keep her own instincts quiet; the rest she buried in work and in the thick, handwritten tomes she kept on the high shelf. Ovted spent her childhood moving between those two worlds without ever realizing they were different from anyone else’s. She watched her father bow to dukes and countesses, then come home and let the mask drop the moment the door closed. She helped her mother grind salves and hold lanterns while stitches were placed, learning early how to read a body the way other children learned their letters. The purple eyes that stared back at her from the washbasin were simply the eyes she had always had. When she scraped a knee chasing the baker’s cart, it healed faster than her playmates’—she thought everyone’s did. When she accidentally raised a small hexagonal shield to stop a falling crate in the market, her father only smiled, ruffled her hair, and said, “Good instincts, little one. Now let’s not do that where the guild masters can see.” The tomes passed down from Seval were the only inheritance that ever felt heavy. Ovted would sit at the kitchen table after supper, tracing diagrams of veins and meridians while her mother explained, again and again, the same quiet creed: “Keeping someone alive is harder than letting them die. That’s the work worth doing.” There was never drama, never fear. Just a household built on careful choices: Rethak choosing words over wings, Seval choosing healing over hunger, and both of them choosing silence so their daughter could grow up believing she was exactly what the world saw—mostly human, entirely theirs. The blood remembered anyway. It simply waited, patient as pearl, until the day it would be asked to speak. Ovted's earliest memories were of light filtering through ivy-covered windows in their small stone house on the outskirts of Greenbriar, a sleepy village nestled between rolling green hills and a slow, clear river. The place smelled of fresh bread from the mill, damp earth after rain, and the faint herbal sharpness of her mother's clinic in the back room. Rethak taught her shielding magic in the garden behind the house, away from prying eyes. He would stand barefoot on the grass, hands open, and show her how to shape the air into something solid but unseen—simple barriers that bent light just enough to deflect a thrown pebble or cushion a falling branch. "Not for fighting," he always said, voice calm as still water. "For protecting what's yours." His own shields were practical things: a faint shimmer that turned aside a sudden gust or the edge of a merchant's angry gesture in negotiation. He had learned the basics from his shapeshifting-healer grandfather, though the reflective dazzle of old had faded in him. Ovted's versions came out hexagonal, iridescent at the edges like dragon scales catching dawn, but she was too young to question why they looked that way. To her, they were just "Papa's trick." Seval taught her the other half: healing plants first, then people. They knelt together in the herb beds, pressing fingers to bruised leaves until color returned, or coaxing wilted stems to straighten. "Feel the life wanting to come back," Seval would murmur, her cool hands guiding Ovted's. "Help it along, don't force it." Later came the clinic work—bandaging cuts, brewing teas, sensing the wrongness in a body before symptoms fully bloomed. Ovted watched her mother draw blood for tests or transfusions, always careful, always ethical. The rare times Seval used her own blood—a single drop stirred into a dying patient’s draught to grant unnatural strength and speed of healing—were done in secret, at night, with the door barred. Ovted never saw it happen, but she felt the shift in the air afterward: a quiet guilt that lingered like smoke. The secret held for years. Greenbriar was small and trusting; people came to Seval because she healed better than anyone, and they left grateful. Until the winter fever took old Master Torren, the miller's brother. He was slipping away, breath ragged, skin gray. Seval waited until the family left the room, then pricked her wrist and let the drop fall into his mouth. By morning he was sitting up, color returned, grip strong enough to crush a spoon. The family called it a miracle. Torren, foggy but remembering the metallic taste and the strange warmth that flooded his veins, pieced it together. He didn't thank her. He whispered to his kin, then to the village elders: "The nurse isn't natural. She put something in me—something unholy. I felt it change me." Fear spread like frost on glass. Whispers turned to stares, stares to avoidance. A week later, stones rattled against the shutters at night. Rethak raised barriers around the house without a word, his face tight. Seval packed the tomes and salves in silence. Ovted, only nine, clutched her small hexagonal shield like a toy, not understanding why the garden felt colder. They fled under a moonless sky, a single wagon creaking down the back road out of Greenbriar. Rethak drove, eyes on the dark path ahead; Seval held Ovted close in the back, whispering that it would be all right. No one followed—they didn't need to. The village had already decided what they were. Valeton was larger, louder, a proper town with cobbled streets, a bustling market square, and guild halls that smelled of wax and ambition. Rethak slipped back into his role almost immediately—his old guild contacts vouched for him, and within weeks he was lobbying again, this time for the local merchants' association. The purple eyes still drew a second glance, but in a bigger place they passed as exotic rather than suspicious. He dressed the same: impeccable coats, measured words, quiet shields when a deal turned sharp. Seval had no such easy path. Nursing required trust, and trust had to be earned twice over in a new town. She started as an adventurer—healer attached to small dungeon runs and caravan guards—patching wounds in the field, proving her skill where results mattered more than rumors. She took the blood draws when offered, kept her infusions hidden, and let her healing speak. It took two hard years: broken bones mended overnight, fevers broken in hours, lives pulled back from the edge. Slowly the whispers changed. Adventurers talked about the cool-handed nurse who never flinched. Clinics began calling her in. Eventually she opened a small practice again, the tomes back on their shelf. Ovted grew up in the spaces between these new routines. She practiced her father's shields in empty lots behind the guild hall, hexagonal plates flexing like living things. She helped her mother in the clinic, learning to sense injury the way Seval did. The purple eyes were still just hers. The family never spoke much about Greenbriar—only that sometimes people fear what saves them. But the blood remembered the flight, the stones against the shutters, the wagon in the dark. It waited, patient as ever, for the day Ovted would have to choose between hiding and healing in a world that might not let her do both.

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The quackening its happening. It looked better in my mind.

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Ok so who are like me and first metal song was power rangers.

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Growing up i was told the ideal model was tall slender, while growing up to songs about busty curvy proportions. I always have had self image issues but just remember everyone likes something different just aim for healthy and not a shape. I think that is why growing up instead of the common superstars I supported more of those who looked more like me it gave me confidence and support. Not sure why I am posting this just love who you are and make the best version of yourself without being too hard on yourself.

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Today song of the day is between our hands by zacarek and Smokiefox. This song helps illustrate various art styles. It is a great heart warming song. piped.video/watch?v=M1NedkXg… My reaction: piped.video/watch?v=WbbzGAfo…

Congrats to @EliLeeVT for becoming a Glytch Partner.

Remember dps if you make healers mad in MMOs they may resort to only one heal...Resurrection.