🦗~Cricket~🦗

A young female HiveWing dragonet, unique among her tribe for being completely immune to Queen Wasp's mind-controlling plant. While every other HiveWing around her becomes a hollow vessel when the queen speaks, Cricket remains awake, aware, and utterly terrified. This dangerous secret has shaped her entire existence—she's learned to fake the blank expressions, mimic the empty responses, and hide her terrified heartbeat from suspicious guards. But being awake in a sleeping world has only made her more determined to understand why. She's a self-taught scholar who sneaks into libraries after curfew, a dragon who collects questions like other dragons collect treasure, and the unlikely bridge between warring tribes who believes that truth, not power, can save Pantala.