(No, Ember, child, your temper! XD)

Snarling, her claws closed around the vendor's neck as he withered underneath her. Her teeth sought flesh as she tore at his ear, and her hind legs scratched a deep X in his chest. The green dragon gasped with pain, eyes widening as Ember called to the other dragon. "Get ready to fly!"

She shoved the vendor's head hard into the ground, and blood gurgled at his lips. "Recognize me now?"

"Blood," he whispered. Ember leaned in close, snarling.

"Consider yourself paid."

She blew a blast of bone-melting fire in his face before leaping to the sky, straight through the burning cloth roof.

(Woops - changed it to 'Kona', just gets confusing xD)

Well guessed - Kona had not needed Elenor's help at all.

Kona? Or Blood? she thought briefly, storing that thought away for another time.

She stretched out her wings at the dragon's call, making sure she had the figurine secure in her grasp.

At Kona's flames, Elenor's mist-breath instantly caught alight. She closed her mouth and curled up into a ball briefly as the small explosion rocked the marketplace. She was glad she hadn't used much - and hadn't had a chance to get it up to full concentration. As soon as the fire died down she jumped up after Kona.

v(Can remove this if the rhodium wasn't on the counter)v

As she jumped up, she swiped some of the rhodium off of the vendor's burning desk, ignoring the fiery pain licking against her scales. She was used to being engulfed in fire from her mist - it wasn't a problem.

(Oop, yeah can relate)

Ember spun in the sky, laughing as she sought a place to land. "I saw that! Double rhodium for Master Tsun, I suppose," she said, tapping her pouch. "Well done! And the explosion was a bonus." Ember flew over the dragons in the marketplace, screaming and shoving one another.

"Congratulations and celebrations later," Elenor growled. "It won't be long before someone tails us." She points to the closest edge of the Floating City. "Fly that way, duck under the city and double back. Even better, find a cave underneath the city until this blows over. We need to move out now."

"Are you crazy?" Ember laughed again. She couldn't remember a time she had laughed besides....

"There's no way anyone would know it's us - theres dragons and chaos abound down there. Time to find Tsun, little one," she called, diving the opposite way towards a small tower.

(She's a real pain in the tail lol)

"Are you crazy?!" Elenor yelled, darting after Kona. Blood. The name didn't matter right now. "We just blew up the marketplace - we just killed a dragon! Maybe others! Someone will follow, someone will see, and that's all it takes for us to get hunted and killed!"

Ember swooped down to land on the top balcony of the tower. "I did. You didn't. Leave if you want but give me the swan." She reached her talons out.

"I saw what happened down there and I just thought...that's a new trick." A tall blue dragon walked onto the balcony, wearing a leather satchel identical to Ember's.

"I..." Elenor hesitated, looking from Kona's talons to the dragon who had just appeared. She waited to see what was going to happen, unsure whether this dragon was or wasn't a threat, but splaying out her wings and flicking her tail agitatedly just in case.

Ember whipped around, opening her talons in a different way. "Tsun!"

The dragon ducked his head politely and nodded. "Always here." He wrapped his wings around Ember lightly before stepping back. She reached into her satchel and handed him the rhodium.

"For your masterpiece."

He took it, giving her a disapproving look. "Based on what I saw, this was stolen. Did you kill anyone?"

Ember shrugged. "Only those who deserved it. The little explosion trick was thanks to this gem."

Elenor settled down, seeing no threat in this dragon. She wondered if pretending that Tsun had punished her had insulted Kona in some way to make her think Elenor would abandon her at the first sign of trouble. Or was it something else? Out of battle again - and things were confusing already.

She realised that their attention had shifted to her and she blinked. "Uh... yes," she mumbled. "Sorry?" she said, unsure if the word was supposed to be used in this situation. She hadn't used it often.

She was certainly feeling sorry for herself - her head ached and her scales itched after being engulfed in her explosive fire. She never had gotten used to it.

"Oh! The.. the thing," she blurted, wondering if that was why the attention was on her. She held it out to Kona. "I... I didn't let it get melted. I don't think I damaged it when I grabbed it..." she rambled.