In the days leading up to the human children's visit, the Dravaryns took turns stopping by to visit and speak with the still-recovering red dragon.
There were, unfortunately, many things they needed to discuss.
The first order of business involved tracing Ilyss's whereabouts.
Thankfully, they still had the last contact she'd made decades ago to work with, but just as expected from the once free-spirited and fiercely independent golden dragon, once Ilyss truly decided to vanish from the public eye, tracking her down became unbelievably difficult.
Still, difficult was far from impossible.
And for a family that had spent years believing reunion was little more than a hopeless fantasy, simply having a clear possibility to chase after was already enough to rejoice over.
So once that matter was temporarily set aside, the next critical discussion naturally shifted toward the circumstances surrounding Orryn's disappearance.
