The frozen flame burns brightest;; Haru/Itova Private.

She'd been alone for a while at this point, all those jobs she had at one time been going on fell into the realm of unnecessary when she found this place, a location with enough fish to feed her that closely matched where she grew up on snowfall island. Itova had not spoken to or seen anything humanoid in several full passing's of the moon and she lost track of time once more, returning back to her native roots as a dragon with ease when she didn't need to double task as a mage to provide for herself. In the silence of this land, she was at ease, appreciated the lack of human contact, the ability to think without dozens of other creatures chattering near her. The best part atop all of it, the cake topper to the freedom finding the silent glaciers gave to her?! Was the open sky.

In an area so isolated and distant from civilization, too cold for the birds to roost, nothing stayed long besides her, even other of her own kind would stay away as they were adjusted to being one with ice as she was. For once? Her magic was a blessing, it gave her the clear sky back, nothing and no one in her way as she soared over and around the glaciers with her massive wing span, only her food to be found when she swam deep within the waves, entirely nothing to stop her from swimming within the snow and ice. Today she was taking full advantage of the paradise she had found again, her wings fully extended, riding the currents instead of flapping her wings, allowing her silent delighted passage as snow fell in her wake.

"Huh?" As she soared the raptor like dragon noticed a small blob of blue with her raptor like vision. What was a fish doing that far inland? After a circle around to look better with more detail, she realized the blob was made out of hair or fur instead of scales or skin, something mammalian or human. Against her better judgement, the dragon folded her wings slightly, banking downwards taking herself only yards above the ground so she could circle the creature one more time. "A human boy?" it was confusing, she hadn't seen any humans out here, she hadn't seen anyone for so long, suddenly seeing someone left questions.

Wings slowing her descendant and kicking up a small bit of the freshly falling snow, she landed her sharp sickle claw tapping the ground once with the movement. As she tread across the snow? Itova glanced around, wondering if this was some sort of trap, but indeed the boy was alone, and from the new close distance, he appeared as if he may be injured. "Are you conscious? He's breathing so he's still alive." she was now standing right in front of him, six feet tall with that long sickle claw and those sharp teeth, likely near nothing he had ever gotten to see in person before considering how young he appeared to be. He was alone. She was alone. He was going to die without help, at least in her mind, and even if she hated humans, she was far from heartless.

Doing this went against everything that had kept her alive since she left her island, but no matter how much she despised humans for throwing around dragon slaying magic like a blessing when it was a curse for her kind? She could not just leave a child to die, especially not one all alone like this, like her. Of course, her pride said he was never getting on her back, so she couldn't toss him there to take him back to her cave. Eventually she came up with a plan that would keep him off her back, but accomplish the goal of transporting him. Nearby, the snow rose up, forming a clone of her within seconds, the copy striding over. She'd use her clones back! "Can you get up? I have to get you on her back so I can take you somewhere safer." she tried nudging the boy to his feet, prefering to not freak him out by stabbing her sharp teeth through his shirt.

Normally she would never commit herself to doing this, Itova couldn't count how many times humans had shot at her since she arrived on the mainland, and she even had a deep bullet scar beneath her father's on her hip to prove it. Her life had only been saved that day by the presence of an elf who happened to know healing magic and possessed the patience to earn enough trust to be allowed close enough to heal her. Directly helping in this manner was so unlike her on an average day, but the fact she had seen no one in months and that this was not an 'average' situation more than made up for the slight change in her compared to how she normally behaved.

From the second this child spoke he was offensive and only got away with it due to being a child, heck she only remained after being insulted like that since it was only a young one. What kind of dim wit just assumed that some dragon ate humans? It would be like just assuming some human didn't eat vegetables, or meat or something. As he calmed down and 'realized' his 'mistake' she took a few more steps towards him once more, tilting her head to the side before it returned to its normal position. "Your kind isn't worth the hunt, I've never eaten a human and never will, my kind bears a price for simply existing in the same world as yours being deemed something trophy worthy." why would she ever hunt something that was going to try to kill her? In Itova's mind hunting human's would be like some raccoon hunting a deer, they weren't a natural prey source and the risk of being killed far outweighed the reward of going for it. However, from stories she knew some Dragons at the very least had once hunted humans.

If Haru was right about one thing, it was how young the other existence present at the scene was. Sure, she was grown enough to have eggs and maybe a few hatchlings, but she indeed was still quite a ways from done growing. Even if she looked like an ant compared to most dragons right now? One day she could and would join the ranks of titans with a projected full grown height somewhere within the realm of twenty feet tall at her shoulder. "We'll get it treated after we get you warmed up and fed." she commented, closing the distance, her pretty little clone remaining in much the same location. "I'm going to pick you up so just lift your legs, it's not a good idea to have you jump on her on your own with a busted leg." with that comment she moved to carefully grip the back of his shirt or the band of his pants so she could lift him into the clones back without hurting him.

Once Haru was on the clone's back, they would start the journey towards her cave, which was actually not too far away.

Haru is riding the clone, and please remember she has feather's not scales there isn't a single scale on her.
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The dragoness glanced over at her clone one more time to make sure Haru was settled firmly on the back of it. While many could consider the two of them, clone and original one in the same since the clone was not intellegent and under her complete will? The distinction was important to Itova as otherwise Haru being perched there would be an insult, but it wasn't since that wasn't her back, allowing her pride to remain intact.

As she flew beside her clone and the boy, cold wind buffeting through feathers unable to cut through to her skin itself, the boy began to talk freely. "Time isn't as important to me as human's, I have a much longer lifespan save violent circumstances." she was far from immortal, but her kind had such a lifespan many humans considered her kind immortal to age sometimes as they never really saw the corpse of one that died due to old age. "I'm not much for human's." she wouldn't tell him how much she disliked his kind, that wouldn't be productive to help the child, but internally she held a large disdain for those fleshy beasts who put such value on something she considered a curse. "I'm used to being alone." she extended her wings slightly more, letting her legs extend as she touched her talons to the edge of a glacier face.

The dragonesses cave had been almost invisible from the air, hidden behind where one glacier had fallen and partially melted into a fused state with another. Clearly, she did not enjoy being 'invaded' as to get into the cave one had to sink their claws into the underside of one glacier and drop into the tunnel that had lead to the cave, it was far from easy to get into. Luckily, after a few feet of tunnel the place opened up into a large ice cavern, water from the sea beneath the glacier having bubbled up at one corner, at the core of the glacier it was actually surprisingly warm. "I'm far from full grown, my kind get three times larger then I am at least. However, our best weapon is never our size, it's this." she lifted one foot, showing that one of her claws was far larger than the other's, sickle in shape and razor-sharp, clearly more effective then even a blade for tearing into things. "Once we get it into something, it's nearly impossible for our prey to shake us off without damaging itself further. So we don't need to grow to the size of mountains. But, we do need to fiercely defend a territory when living in a pack, otherwise, there isn't enough food." as she explained the dragoness stretched her wings out again, feet taking her into the small 'pond' bubbled up to one side of the cavern.

"I'm going hunting since it's normally just me I don't have any stockpile. I'll be back soon. Is there anything else humans need apart from food and water?" she made the comment as she turned her neck back slightly to look at him.