Lucky for Nightshade Nightling had been out with Fae who had been yammering about the flavor of the cinnamon she'd eaten for breakfast when they found her... Phoenix tears could heal injuries... Fae looked more like a parrot with a long neck being a female phoenix but a few drops closed the wounds. More potent than a male's... Nightling heard one of those feral hogs that were a menace on her property and sighed going after it they were dangerous prey with those tusks... She had to track it into her sanctuary which just had a tree she liked to sharpen her claws on, a clean stream, a sunning rock large enough for her, and a dry den she'd dug out just a place to decompress from socializing... There were wildflowers blanketing the the area... A single bone crunching bite and the pig's skull was crushed and Nightling dragged it back to the other female dragon depositing it and commented "Feral hogs eat as much of that as you want might be able to make some money I did put a bounty on them. Menace in my hunting reserve... We dragons can digest foodborne parasites completely so no need to worry about that."
Alex knew this female was young from how she was actingand her size, and that she had been abandoned during her adolescence... She might have been legal for a human but dragons took a few more years to mature... Given the difference in lifespan a longer childhood was to be expected. Alex mentioned what was in her sanctuary and said "Until you're ready to come to town you have my permission to stay there... You're smaller than me so you should fit in my den and there are some blankets I use to line it when I camp out folded up in a bag set the tarp down first so you don't get the blankets wet. Rinse off that blood before you get some sleep. The hybrid that gave you a hard time has been spoken to and if he doesn't behave he's thrown out and in prison for assualt. This county has the highest concentration of magical creatures. So a jury can be clued in... The feds are looking into how to make sure we obey the law. This community mostly regulates itself using the county's legal system... We might be put up as an example community if we ever get out to the public..."