Cicada Hive, one of the Nine Hives on Pantala. Your home. You are a Silkwing who's family is of about middle class, so your life's not terrible.

As you walk through the Hivewing district of the Hive, trying to distract yourself from your upcoming Metamorphosis, you pass a few Hivewing guards chasing after a wingless Silkwing dragonet, who's wrists are glowing...the sure sign of Flamesilk. You take a glance at your own wrists...and realize they're glowing too. One of the Hivewings stops chasing the other dragonet, and starts chasing after you instead, after seeing that your wrists are glowing too. You run away, and hear a "Pssst!" as you round a corner, and a trap door is thrown open. You leap in, and the Hivewing runs by. You realize you're in a tunnel...and you're face to face with another Hivewing, a young female this time, with small spectacles on her snout. She smiles at you.

"...You're not the first Silkwing I've hidden. Let me guess...you might be a Flamesilk? Of course, the Flamesilk for the Hives is in short supply. We need to hide you, because...well, I don't think you fancy being captured by Hivewings and taken who-knows-where, right? Oh, I'm rambling again, sorry. My name's Cricket, who're you?"