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Climbing out of bed far before the sun had risen was nothing new to Nadia, her mother often pulled her out of her bed hours before the sun rose and as she grew the habit stuck. Pinning back her hair, throwing on a soft cloth shirt and snatching Sirve, her blue firelizard, out of his bed she hurried down to the kitchens. She had managed to convince the head baker to let her use a section of the kitchen for her own baking, the flipside of the deal was that she had to pay for any ingredients out of her own meager pay or through chores in the kitchens.

Sirve shook himself awake and climbed up to perch tiredly on her shoulder where he contended himself by pulling on her hair and squeaking when she poked him in retaliation. Slipping into the kitchen she headed straight for her little corner wondering what she should make today when Sirve huffed in her ear and then took to the air heading for another part of the kitchens, it was then that she heard the cries of another firelizard, a young one by the sounds of things; scrambling after him, she got hold of him before he went for the green firelizard. Nadia blinked at the other lady for a minute before grinning sheepishly.
“Sorry… he gets cranky this time of day.”

Grumbling and hissing at the younger green Sirve curled against Nadia’s neck glaring at the younger firelizard, occasionally flicking his wings at Tiki and tugging on Nadia’s hair when she tried to hush him with pokes and prods, shifting her weight and ignoring her firelizard as he sent blurry images to her.

“It’s good to meet you…Lulu, I’ am Nadia and this grumpy old fellow is Sirve.” Reaching up to poke at his belly Nadia giggled as he curled closer to her neck and glared at Lulu and Tiki from over her ear. “He isn’t always so… disagreeable. So Lulu, what are you doing here at such an early hour? Most don’t wake till at least sunrise and even then for some it’s questionable.”

Removing her grip on Sirve she tug into her pocket and pulled out a bit of sweetmeat, she often had little bits of leftovers for snacking on as although she was used to waking early her stomach wasn’t, gently handing it to the green she waited to see if her peace offering was taken.

As soon as he was free Sirve leaped from Nadia’s shoulders and scooped down on the remains of Tiki’s breakfast, gulping it in only seconds, he sat perched on the table looking rather pleased with himself. Blinking at him Nadia just winced when he shoot images of the greens scolding’s followed by a sense of victory.

Making a purring sound Sirve looked very content… that was until Tiki stormed over and started chattering and scolding him, looking at her Sirve drew himself up to his full size which was only about two inches bigger then she was and tried to look threatening as he returned her bite with a swipe from his wings although it was obvious that he wasn’t using his full strength.

Nadia giggled as she watched the two of them, shaking her head she ignored the two for now and turned her attentions back to Lulu. “So it be the trails of dealing with firelizard hatchlings, I’ve never been more glad that I didn’t get Sirve until he was already grown. By then he was far more independent then any hatchling would be. I think there’s some more food around here somewhere if she’s still hungry, what does she like to eat?” Glancing around the kitchen Nadia tried to remember where the cooks kept the firelizard meals but coming up blank. “Sirve likes to eat some of the sweet pastries, he has quite a sweet tooth. I could make her some, it wouldn’t take anytime at all.”

Sirve stood proud over wining the battle of wills but seeing the put out look on Tiki he squeaked at her and fluttered his wings trying to get her to come over a play with him, after all since it was now cemented that he was the winner between the two the green was now safe to play with.
Sending her firelizard a look Nadia just sighed at him.

“I’m glad she’s not hurt… sometimes he doesn’t know what he’s doing as well as he pretends too.” Reaching over she plucked him from the table and ignoring his squeak she tucked him under one of her arms letting him wrap his tail around her wrist. Blushing slightly at Lulu’s words Nadia nodded her head.

“I’ve been baking since I was a babe… there are some pretty easy biscuits that wouldn’t take long at all to make although there nothing like some of the pastry that is brought out for the big feasts…. If you wanted I could show you?”

Grinning Nadia nodded at her and pulled Sirve closer to her. “Sure, I can show you how to make some simple biscuits and things, although I’m a much better baker then cook.” Leading the way back to her section on the kitchen she pulled out a bunch of bowls from one of the cupboards. Ignoring the images and senses of retaliation that Sirve was pounding into her head as he glared daggers at the green as she paraded up and down the table, Nadia stuck him on the counter and while keeping one hand on him she grabbed some meat scarps and gave them to him.

“There, stay Sirve and leave her be. Here, hang on and I’ll grab everything we’ll need.” Grinning at Lulu, Nadia retied her hair back and went about grabbing everything they would need. A basket of eggs, a container of cold milk, flour, a bowl of sugar and some sweet berries and nuts. Serving everything she nodded in satisfaction, clapped her hands together and turned back to Lulu. “Ready?”

Sirve sat perched on the counter eyeing the green firelizard with distain as he poked at the small pile of meat when an idea suddenly occurred to him and if firelizards could smirk he would be, watching the other firelizard he bent down and nosily eat the meat making sure that the green saw his every movement. He fluttered his wings and the part of his tail that was hanging off the counter twitched as he ignored the humans and completely focused on annoying the other firelizard.

Grinning Nadia nodded at her new friend and cast a glance back at the green firelizard who stood shrieking on the table, glancing at Sirve to make sure he was behaving she rolled her eyes at him when she saw what he was doing. Turning away from him she grabbed the bowls and passed some of the eggs to Lulu. “Here, lets start by cracking the eggs. Just tap them gently on the side of the bowl and pull apart the shells. Try and make it so that no shell falls into the bowl.” Expertly breaking the egg into the bowl she showed Lulu the steps. “Now you try.”

Sirve gulped the rest of his snack down and then sent about happily cleaning himself as he listened with satisfaction to Tiki’s tantrum, happy once again he settled back and watched the green through half opened eyes, flooding Nadia’s mind with satisfaction and tingly warm feelings which seemed to grow when Tiki got louder. Nadia eyed him for a minute trying not to think about whatever must have been going through his mind, raising an eyebrow at him she turned back to her baking and ignored him.

Grinning Nadia reached peeked into the bowl and grabbing it through the egg and shells into the slop pale. “Don’t worry; it was a good first try. Here,” She handed Lulu another egg. “Not so hard this time, once you have cracked the shell just pull them apart gently.” Nadia mimicked the actions to her.