Azrael was born to a pair at Asura Hold. Her mother, Raela, was a Journeywoman Weaver at the time. Her father had just taken up Firelizard Healing. They were doing fairly were happy to welcome their second daughter into the world. She had an older sister and an older brother.

Azrael grew up to the normal life of a holdbred child. She soon had two sisters who were younger than she, and a little brother as well. She got along best with her sister Laroa, as the two were only a year apart.

Zarala, the eldest of the children, took after her mother when she was thirteen and Azrael was only eight. She Apprenticed into the craft, and soon went to the main Hall far away from Asura Hold. Lazlo, the second eldest, took after their father and became a Firelizard Trainer. He had a bronze and a gold of his own, and was soon very emersed in the craft.

When Azrael turned eleven she Impressed her first set of firelizards from her brother's gold. She Impressed Bronze Meep, Blue Rae, and Green Remeer. They followed her everywhere, soon becoming almost as much of a nuisance as Azrael was. She had done drudge-work up until this point in her life, and had not gone to school with some of the higher-ranking children. When she turned twelve her father took her on as an informal apprentice.

She learned quickly and easily. Her fellow apprentice, Damina, soon became her favorite and most trusted friend. The two had a gift with firelizards, and soon each had theirs under control and on good behavior. As a present on her fifteenth bithday she and Damina were given a trio of firelizard eggs. Two of them Hatched and were Impressed by Azrael, green Amos and brown Kai.

Laroa became a Candidate when she was fifteen and Azrael was sixteen. She crossed her fingers for Laroa at every Hatching, but the girl seemed destined to having bad luck. Azrael's favorite sister has yet to Impress to this very day. Roana became an Apprentice Weaver that same year. Her first project was a quilt, which she gave to Azrael. That quilt is now the one that resides on the girl's bed.

Azrael Impressed green Sady the following year. She and Damina had finished their training, and both were working hard in their chosen profession. It wasn't until later that year that the flitter plague hit Asura Hold. Both had gone to live at the Weyr by that time, perfecting their profession among the firelizard's larger kin, the dragons. They returned and worked hard. The plague finished its run within three sevendays. Azrael had lost four of her six flitters to the plague while staying there to stop it. Green Amos and Blue Rae were the only survivors.

Azrael returned to the Weyr and worked harder in Firelizard Healing, making a full profile and ingredient list of the salve they used to stop the fungal infection that spread from flitter to flitter and even infected some of their larger cousins.

Not long after her nineteenth birthday, Azrael was approached by a young bluerider. She had been Searched, and the young man asked her if she would like to Stand. The idea was new to her, even though her young brother had joined Laroa in trying to Impress. She decided to give it a chance and accepted, becoming a Candidate. It was the one way she could see of filling the gap left by the death of Meep, Sady, Remeer, and Kai.

She began her Candidate duties soon after. Her first weyr-warming gift was a large quilt. It is now the quilt that sits on the empty dragon couch, awaiting it's occupant as eagerly as the Firelizard Healer that rests inside the weyr.

At her first Hatching, Azrael Impressed a lovely little green named Riabith. She was the second dragon to Hatch, and would have Impressed a young woman named Kali if the other girl's green firelizard hadn't scared Ria towards Az. Now the two live happily together as lifemates.

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