Editing Tashlit (section)

===Before the Story===
She comes from a family of Others [[God-Begotten|descended from]] both [[gods]] and [[humans]].<ref name="Mar">“Child of a divine power and a human?”<br><br>The Other tilted her head to one side and blinked once.<br><br>“Close?  Child of two such creatures?  Or one creature and a human.”<br><br>The Other blinked slowly.<br><br>“A line of such.  Mmm.  It’s a lonely existence.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/ Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]</ref> Her grandmother was a pre-biblical princess transformed by Deity level Others into a Monster which spawned endless horrors; one of those horrors was a many-eyed sea serpent, which in turn was cursed to have its mind exchanged with a noble lady, a would-be rescuer tried to break the curse but only resulted in the couple having two daughters.<ref name=":8"><br><br> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/14 excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.6]]</ref> 

Tashlit was hatched from an egg around 2003 (she's approximately 17 as of 2020),<ref name=":7" /> she was essentially an older toddler at that point and had what Innocent people would consider learning delays.<ref name="Toler">“Don’t be sorry.  With a reptile mom- or, well, that’s not right.  Our mom is human, just stuck in a body that’s about two hundred feet long, leaks acid from the mouth… she hates that-”<br><br>“Understandable,” Lucy said.<br><br>“-but we hatched, skipped the baby phase.”<br><br>“See, to me, that kind of makes sense,” Verona said.  “I suspect babies are Nature playing a dirty trick on humanity.  Leaky and noisy and helpless.”<br><br>“''Bit'' of a developmental delay,” Tashlit said.  “I started walking right away but I was slow with speech and I was behind my classmates for the first few years in school.  Mostly my dad was just happy I seemed normal, I think.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/23 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.z]]</ref> Besides that she grew up mostly human before transforming into her current form.<ref name=":7" /> In the time since her transformation she spent her time walking the world to visit various siblings.<ref>Then I went traveling. [...] I visited other siblings.  Our whole deal, I’m not sure if anyone’s explained, Montague, is we’re like the bloodlines of Echidna, or Minos of Crete, or Jormungandr.  Sometimes you get a girl who has snakes instead of bodily fluids, sometimes you have a boy with sapphire skin who kills anyone who hears his voice, and sometimes that egg hatches and you have two dragons sharing one mind.  [...] [The visits] went really well.  Really, really well.  I was prepared for my visit to some of them to be me checking in, peering in from a hiding spot, and I didn’t have to.  They recognized me and they were hungry.  So I helped my dragon brothers with grooming and dealt with some colonies of mites that were settling in their scales, took three trips.  You could have filled a swimming pool with these little bugs the size of pencil erasers, practically. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/23 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.z]]</ref>