An adult kobold in the later half of their life. They met Wraithvine, Bibrid, and the children. "I recognize you. My previous life before this. I was a baby and I rescued your hat. I died when I was a hundred and five, but I never forgot the funny elf with the fluffy cat and warm house that kept the storm out."
@internutter/challenge-04773-m024-the-unlikeliest-hero -- BKF
Ereshkygal and Shai both have plans for mortal souls. Immortal ones, too, but those are a little more directly managed. The only ones who are immediately reborn are Kobolds, and there are no definitive reasons why. Only the terribly prejudiced people say that it's because no god will claim them.
They don't make that claim about Dragons, because being burned to cinders often offends.
Wraithvine had come to like Dragonkindred, because ze never knew when ze would meet an old friend in a new body. Such as now, when the Kobold on the staff at the restaurant gasped and said, "It is you!"
This Kobold, their nametag declared them as Wynsloe, looked nothing like any other Kobolds that Wraithvine had met in hir significant time.
"I was a baby when we met," said Wynsloe. "I chewed up your hat somewhere close to three hundred years ago."
Instantly, Wraithvine could picture the child that was. "Three hundred years?"
"Thereabouts," admitted Wynsloe. "I've always been the kind to use round numbers. But I remember that storm. You saved my whole family."
"I remember it a little differently," said Wraithvine. "You saved my hat, and that saved your family. You were a hero before you could speak properly."
Wynsloe laughed. "I saved you so you could save me. Perfectly balanced. Still, I feel like I owe you a favour." Thus, with a few strings pulled, Wraithvine and hir odd little found family ate at a discount.
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