Maley did not have a home. Not a true one, anyway. Usually he just wandered from Caer to Weyr to Dragonry to Nidus, chasing whichever female happened to catch his eye, and not giving a damn about anyone but himself. Not that he let others know that; outwardly, he was all charm and admirance and gaiety as he fawned over his latest paramour, whether he caught the dragoness in the end or not. But inside, he truly cared about nothing except his own blue-black hide.
It didn't concern him in the slightest, either. Though he knew no hatchling, or human for that matter, would want to put up with him, he didn't mind. He didn't have any interest in bonding, he never had, and he had long since sworn to himself that he never would. He would never bog himself down with another mind, or be chained to one permanent residence. He was as free as the wind, and he intended to stay that way.
His latest dalliance was at a place called Nidus Avengaea. It was the first time he'd been there, and nobody recognised him, as he knew no one there. He was completely comfortable in his anonymity; he was more used to being alone in a crowd than he was being alone by himself, and he found that it raised far less suspicion.
The object of his affection-and perhaps, lust-rose in the sky in front of him suddenly as he pushed his way through the crowd of humans, dragons, and other beings who frequented the Nidus. She was beautiful. Of course she was, what female dragon would hold his gaze, if they weren't stunning? But she was, perhaps even worthy of him. Maybe.
Maley's eyes followed her as she rose into the sky with her rider, a young human...like creature. Her shimmering golden scales sparkled in the bright sunlight of the early evening, her duowings carrying her skyward, her entire body posed in a position of ease in power against the backdrop of a slowly sinking sun. From here, he could barely see the spectral colors of her wingsails, all the colors of the rainbow seeming to fade and converge into a mess of shadowy black as the light gradually dimmed. He knew what they looked like in full light, however. How she looked.
He would have smiled, were he something other than dragon, and were he someone other than who he was. But he didn't, and instead, his eyes seemed to soften as he watched the dragoness, and planned in his mind-silently-how best to seduce her.