Anyone who saw Jayberry come probably went running.

Her eerie shape, shrouded in the mist, was bad enough. Too long legs, a lashing tail. But the way she moved? She lurched, staggering as though about to fall with each step. And she was--she couldn't get used to her new legs, or the claws that seemingly had minds of their owns.

But this was important, and so she was determined. It was probably a bad idea, but she was determined to do it. So she continued to stumble through Cetus, feeling through the swamp as she cast out spells, unable to quite get used to the feeling of her gemstone fang flicking down and up with each cast of her spell.

But it paid off--she suddenly sensed a magical presence, and went to work digging in the swamp, seeking the Gemstone she had sensed.

At length, her paws struck stone. After some uncovering, and perhaps cleaning, it would become more visible: a faint blue-green shimmer in the mud.

Jayberry has found a rough Aquamarine belonging to a Pupil-level (+2) hybrid creature: half African Lion, half Addax.

@Jayberry

The she-wolf walked, and walked, until her awkward new paws struck something hard. Casting her magic out (and feeling her fang scrape her tongue, making her grimace), she sensed Magic beneath her. So she began to work, scooping away the muck with her paws twisted into scoops, until she finally found something that gleamed blue-green.

Awkwardly, she picked it up in her paw, bringing it to her mouth and beginning to lick it clean. Finally she had a Gemstone, and her tail wagged, nearly knocking her over. Oh, this was perfect! What was inside, she wondered, observing it for a long moment. It was roughly cut, nothing unlike her own well-curved fang, or the perfect oval of Yewberry's throat-stone.

But finally, holding it carefully in her paw, she continued to hobble through Cetus some more.

Eventually, Jayberry would come across another stone: a polished pebble of Turquoise, again shining blue-green, though this one a much more colorful shade. This gemstone once belonged to a Pupil-level (+2) hybrid of Cheetah and Clownfish.

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Still clutching her precious gemstones, the she-wolf continued to make her way through Cetus. The swamp pulled at her paws, and dragged at her tail--it certainly wasn't helping her learn to walk with her new funny forepaws and uneven legs.

Carefully, she cast out her magic, a slight flicker drawing her eye. Shifting the gemstone, she began to paw at the ground, digging through the marsh until she struck gemstone.

The stone was a polished, glistening, milky-blue Chalcedony. Once cleaned of the muck and grime, it would have a shimmering, translucent quality--as if too pure for Cetus. The Chalcedony had once belonged to a Fledgling (+1) creature of uncertain origins.

In appearance, it was something lizard-like--a gecko, perhaps, with large, sticking toes and, when healthy, a thickly-fat tail. It was hardly more than the size of one, too; less than a foot long from head to tail-tip. Its scales were deep, flaming orange. Its face, however, was strangely person-like, entirely humanoid in appearance. A pair of small, branching antlers jutted from the back of its skull.

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