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Of malfunctioning portals, parks and dragons [Open]

Taking some time from other projects, Celena had once more brought down her Paired Gate device down to the park in an attempt to work on a number of issues of the operation of the device while in the Bleed. After all if a stable gate could be established, even for short periods of time, it could make for quick travel about the city and about the ship in general.

Thus in her usual draconic form she had set herself before the primary end of the gate device in the middle of a large clearing in the park, with the secondary portion of the device not a hundred feet away. After some time in pondering the problem she had decided to take a break from her work. Locking the device down she stretched herself out and padded away to wander the park for a short while before taking off to stretch her wings. Keeping her general flight path around the vicinity of the park itself.

[OOC: Feel free to run into her at any point, whether while she's working on the device, wandering the park or even flying around overhead!]

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"All right," Rachel shrugged. "I just figured you might be weirded out or something, I guess." Because she still wasn't used to the process, and watching it was undeniably gross. Rachel closed her eyes, focusing on the thought of Celena, and felt herself being to change shape.

"I have seen far worse believe me, it would take far more to 'weird' me out as it were," Celena replied with some amusement, giving her a nod that it was okay to proceed. Standing their calmly as the process began, watching on with interest if anything rather than any sign of being made uncomfortable by the sight.

"Fair enough," Rachel muttered. Of course, she still thought morphing was gross, after all this time. Maybe not weird but one hundred percent not pleasant. But even while she replied easily, most of her attention was on morphing. She could feel herself shifting and growing as she spoke, the plantsuit working as perfect morphing clothes. Her skin turning grey and tougher-- not that unlike the elephant morph, at least as first-- while her bones and skin restructured to make the dragon form. And, knowing what she was becoming this time around, there was something way cool about it.

It wouldn't be long before she had taken the brand new form, new dragon eyes fluttering to take a close look at Celena across from her, a very similar form. It was a bit weird to be in her friend's head, more or less, but she could feel the raw power of the dragon morph in her. So yeah-- 'way cool' was pretty accurate.

((ooc: still need to sort icons to fit it in, so link for now. :) ))

Celena watched on with great interest as the process unfolded, much more interested in the workings of the transformation than showing any sign of disgust to it. Many of her own kind after all had manners of taking on other shapes and forms. During the process, once more she switched her vision over to her 'true sight', viewing the transformation in terms of energy, life, magic and other such things.

As the transformation completed she switched her vision back to normal, watching as the markings formed over her morphed form, taking on a different configuration from Celena's own and yet different again to both Marco's and Cassie's in their morphs of her form. The feeling of power within her form would be both physical and literal, from the energies that flowed through Rachel's morphed form.

With a smile Celena slowly circled her friend's morphed form, observing the markings and looking for any sign of divergence from her own form, finding no difference at all, to be expected after all, she stopped before her once more, "What do you think?"

((OOC: That's fine! :) ))

< This is kind of awesome, > Rachel said, with a laugh in her 'voice'. Celena's form was pretty clearly capable of speech, but she defaulted to thought speech anyway, because that was normal and easy for morphs. Rather than figuring out how a dragon spoke.

On that note, she began to try and figure out other things-- stretching out the wings and the legs, getting a feel for the body. At least there were no insane, raging instincts to deal with.

Celena chuckled at that with a slight grin, "I'm glad you think so," amusement clear in her tone as she watched on as Rachel began to try to get a feel for her form. It was certainly something different to watch another in a semblance of her own form, though with the markings the way they were, Rachel and the others who had acquired her looked to her like others of her kind rather than copies of her.

< Going to go ahead and agree that it's better than a bird's eye view, from down here, > she commented idly. She looked up, focusing the eyes, curious what else Celena could do-- and now, by extension, Celena. < Want to go for a fly? >

((ooc: Let me know if I take any liberties or anything, by the by.))

"That is interesting to know indeed," She replied as she watched her friend in her form. A smile coming to her snout at the request, "You'd be hard pressed to find a time that I wouldn't wish to go for a flight," she commented with a chuckle as she unfurled her wings.

((ooc: Looking fine so far! Shall do, don't worry ^^))

Rachel's own snout mimicked the gesture easily, and the smile was heard in her 'voice' when she replied as well. < Great, > she replied, following her lead and spreading her own wings, ready to take off behind Celena. Flying was one of Rachel's favourite things about morphing, that was for sure.

Celena dipped her head with a smile before crouching back, lifting her wings high above before propelling herself skyward as she brought down her wings in a powerful beat, soon soaring above the trees of the park, tilting on wing tip so that she could watch Rachel as she waited for her to join her in the air.

< Okay, so this might just be awesome, > Rachel said, voice grinning now as she beat her new wings to catch Celena and to stay steady in the air. She was a fairly natural flyer, given the instincts built in and her experience in other forms, but this was still something so different. If Tobias saw her now...

"Only might?" Celena asked with an amused look over her shoulder to the draconic Rachel even as she began winging her way higher over the city itself. Rachel certainly seemed to be fairly natural at it, given Celena's form at the very least she wasn't surprised, along with the fact that she had experience in other forms from what she had gathered.

After a short while Celena leveled out once more, now far above the city below, Rachel would truly be able to get a sense of the degree of her vision even from the height they glided at.

< Just maybe, > Rachel agreed, giving her best approximation of a grin with the dragon snout. She flapped her wings, getting herself the last bit higher, before she was soaring over the city. It was thrilling, to see the whole thing from above like this, and to catch some wind more intensely than even the eagle or owl could.

She let the advanced sight scan the city below, too, taking it in. < Okay yeah, vision is a bonus too. >

Celena grinned right on back across to Rachel at that, wings held steady out to either side as she soared along with her friend in draconic form. She never did get tired of soaring above the city below.

She knew well the capabilities of her form and sight, after all she did at often times watch the city and its comings and goings from the skies above. "It certainly proves itself useful," she commented with a chuckle, arching one wing up to perform an easy barrel roll over Rachel's form to level out on the other side.

(OOC: Sorry for the delay)

< You're telling me, > Rachel agreed, nodding 'her' head a little. The enhanced sight was always a nice perk to some of her morphs (though her favourite morph didn't really have that advantage), but it still didn't compared to the flying.

She watched Celena do the barrel roll above her, grinning her new dragon grin, before she swooped upwards, taking some more air. A dive seemed like fun-- as long as she didn't get close enough to break anything, in her new, larger form.

((ooc: You're fine! I've been lagging behind a lot myself sob.))

Celena dipped her head in return at that, before watching her with a smile as her friend swooped upwards, easily following the maneuver and keeping pace with Rachel. Figuring easily what she intended to do. Dives were always fun, that said, dives for Celena often involved diving in amongst the buildings of the city itself to soar through the streets, not quite the level yet as to what Rachel would be attempting.

(OOC: Late, late late, sorry about that >.>;)

Rachel was just out to have some simple fun-- and get a feel for how well she could control it, too, while she was at it. As an added bonus. Once she felt like she had enough height, flapping slightly to keep herself steady, far above the city, she turned to take a nosedive, wings coming in close to the body. She intended to pull up last minute, catch herself with the wings and stop herself before she hit the city itself.

((ooc: Already told you you're fine! ♥))

Celena would have had no objections to such fun, especially in regards to flight, it was one of the things in life she enjoyed most, the feel of wind beneath her wings and the rush it brought when she wove through even the most difficult of areas. Without thinking twice Celena joined Rachel in her dive, though giving her enough space, though ready to catch her with her energies should her dive get out of control.

Rachel was slightly shaky with pulling up, to shoot back into the air last minute, wings flapping to catch herself slightly. But she let the instincts and mind of the morph do most of the thinking and working, letting herself get carried away.

< That was awesome. >

Celena waited a moment longer than Rachel before pulling up so that she came within feet of skimming the rooftops themselves, wings spread wide to catch the air, with but a few beats of her wings she sailed up beside Rachel once more.

"Agreed, there's much more than simple dives though," Celena called back with a chuckle, turning one wing one way and the other opposite to spin on axis once.

Rachel was basically grinning, both externally and internally, now. She watched Celena as she flew, and said, < I can do a bit as a bird, but this is way more. > Now that she'd gained some air again, she imitated the move, letting herself spin in mid-air.

Celena smiled widely as she watched her friend fly along side her. Dipping her head at the comment, "I can imagine, few birds however could truly compare to the flight dragons are capable of, they have their own advantages though," she replied with absolute confidence in the capabilities of her kind in terms of flight, though indeed, birds often had the advantage of small size and generally more maneuverable, where as very few birds could achieve the velocities a dragon could when they set their minds to it.

< Basically, yeah, > Rachel agreed, enjoying the feeling of the power in this form. She loved flying as a bird but this was something else. The sheer strength and skill of it was something to be admired.

< Might have a new favourite morph, > she joked.

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