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Who: Adolin and you, the lucky viewer!
What: A freshly arrived noble brat is here.
Where: The Sapphire Sanctum
When: We'll call it May 4th, before the missing people are noticed.
Warnings: Nyet.

Adolin had never seen a dragon before. Roshar didn't have dragons, for one thing, and they looked wrong to him. There weren't the sorts of carapace and the like that he expected of greatshells. They also appeared to be the size and strength of a greatshell, at a glance, but intelligent. He really wasn't sure what he thought about that.

The fact that no spren were here, anywhere, felt wrong. He thought they should be drifting up around him even now.

But, this wasn't Roshar.

He felt ungainly, for once, in his Shardplate. He didn't look it, though -- the perfectly interlocked blue armor, with its white lining, was immense but he moved with that uneasy grace that said it was far from assembled plates -- but he felt out of place. He felt small, which he did not like, either. The temptation was there to summon his Shardblade, but he was told they were his allies. Or, maybe, his masters.

He kept the helmet under his arm, so the confused look on his face as he scanned the room was simply hard to miss.

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[Hey look, a new guy. Yugo jumps up out of a blue portal about ten feet away.]

Whoa, cool armor! Are you a knight?

[A kid! Adolin looks down at Yugo, and then smiles, though he is studying him for a moment longer. A native, or someone else brought to this world?]

A knight? No, there haven't been knights where I'm from for a long time. [Good thing, too, he thinks.] I am a warrior, though. My name is Adolin Kholin. Commander in the armies of Alethkar.

[A beat.] And a Bluesworn, too, now, if I have it right.

A warrior! That's neat, too.

[He grins and adjusts his hat.]

That's right. I'm Yugo! It's nice to meet you, Adolin.

There's not a whole lot of bluesworn, or blue dragons, but we're all pretty nice.

Yugo? [A darkeyed kid, he thinks. But nice enough, and he needs the help. Besides, he isn't this kid's highprince... even if it feels weird to not be addressed with an honorific.]

[He may have to get used to that.]

Nice to meet you, too. I noticed it looked a little sparse. Who else is here?

There's Genis, and Tempest, and the girl with the hood, and then the guy who doesn't talk to people much... and Zeri. And that's it. [He frowns a little.] The other dragons don't like us much.

I'll have to meet them all. [He nods at that, but his expression becomes more serious.] Why don't they like us?

[Yugo thinks really hard.]

I think they just don't like anyone. Zeri said a lot of blue dragons died. Maybe that has something to do with it?

It could be. They could see us weaker, if we lost a lot of our number...

I don't think it's strange for someone to keep to themselves when they're hurting. I think they'll warm up to us eventually, but first, we have to make sure we help them out.

We'll do that. It should be easy enough for all of us, working together.

[But... he can't let a kid do his work for him. It wouldn't be right. The Codes were clear about protecting children.]

Yep! Not just bluesworn, either. We need everyone's help if we're going to win. [Working together is basically the only way bad guys get defeated on his world.] It helps that 'sworn don't really care what scale color dragons have-- at least, I don't. It doesn't make a difference on my world at all.

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Are we fighting them, too, though? I heard something to suggest that. Or is it more of a... friendly competition?

Well...

[That's a hard question.]

I guess the dragons have a lot of reasons not to talk to each other, but I'm pretty sure there's nothing stopping us from making friends. I spent some time hunting down demons with the redsworn and it was just fine.

I'm used to that, I suppose. Competition among allies and friends. It seems like it could be complicated... but with those things out there, it may be for the best.

As long as 'complicated' doesn't mean forgetting about the Legion... There's just no reason for people to continue fighting about stuff that's already happened.

[This sounds familiar. Of course, Yugo reminding him of his father, in his fifties, is... a little weird.]

Well said. I like to think we'll band together, though.