Concept sketch for size/visual assistance: http://www.seferia.net/kat_aclysm/stuff/rawr_dragon.jpg
More than likely will throw Seph in somehow.
Rakaerum was a rather dull colored bronze/brown dragon. Two smooth dark brown horns grew back and up from her head, smaller spines grew from the sides of the head. Her skull was rather thick and tough, designed for ramming and shoving down trees, prey, and other dragons. Large spines and frills grew from her neck and tail. She was not much of a sight to behold however. She was all but 3ft in height from the top of her shoulder, and 9ft long from nose to tail tip, hardly a grand dragon by any means. She belonged to a subspecies of omnivorous lesser dragons specialized for stalk-hunting in sub-tropical forest area and so as a result, grew to a smaller adult size than her grander and more archaic species counterparts.
Whereas the grand and older generation dragons grew to colossal sizes, her species had shrunk through the path of evolution, causing them to be overall much smaller, yet much more lithe and fast, and some of them would even say more intelligent (though this was widely disputed by larger dragons). The grassland bronze/brown subspecies were also faster growing and faster breeding than their old-world counterparts. They were built for running, stalking, and moderate distance flight. Their breath weapon was dismal however, and was only fueled by whatever combustible digestive gasses were made in the gut. At most, they could manage a small plume of flame that was good enough to start brushfires in the open plains of Africa in which they had hunted and lived in before the grand culling of dragon kind everywhere.
Like many other species of dragons, they had become refugees on the island of Halcyon. What little of them left had migrated, even fewer had survived on the island to continue breeding. They had made very generous sized meals for larger dragons once their relatively unprotected wings had been bitten off. This had made subsequent generations of them very alert, jumpy, quick to flee, and exceedingly defensive of their mates and offspring. And because of their size and reluctance to fight, larger dragons had classed them near the bottom social rung of their hierarchy.
Rakaerum herself had been born on the island, and raised by a rather strict and angry mother who never allowed her clutch of three to wander more than about seven feet at any given time. They mostly fed on rabbits, small lizards and lots and lots of fruit. She herself had never eaten anything more interesting than that.
The young adult female was scavenging in the area when she had heard overheard the discussion from others gossiping nearby. There was a new refugee to the island, a lowly human at that. Rakaerum had never seen a human before and was quite curious. She trotted off to investigate, remaining on high alert should any others attack her, or tell her to go away.