SMOLDER AND PALM
Amber: Welcome to the twenty-eighth episode of the Forkedamber Talk Show. We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas special, and had a good Christmas!
Fatespeaker: Now nobody can say that my walrus vision didn't come true.
Viper: Well, not in the way you said it would come true.
Fatespeaker: You're just jealous.
Forkedblade: Today we'll be interviewing Smolder…and Palm!
Oasis: I thought I got rid of her.
Burn and Blister: I thought you got rid of her.
Smolder: I thought she was dead! *Runs and hugs Palm, who hugs him back.*
Thorn: I might be happy for Smolder, except I don't really like him.
Smolder: Hey, I helped you adjust to being Queen.
Thorn: You also made sure that Blaze remained in the palace as a royal advisor.
Smolder: I admit that was one of my worse ideas.
Blaze: Inwish I had Deathbringer's tiara.
Deathbringer: No way, it's MINE.
Glory: I though you hated that tiara.
Deathbringer: But I don't hate you.
Winter: *Takes a picture of him with iPad*
Moon: I thought you hated that iPad.
Winter: I never said that.
Starflight: Dragons don't have iPads. That's a scavenger thing.
Amber: ANYWAYS, guys, can we please focus on today's episode? Palmolder is one of the few canon ships, although we don't see a lot of evidence throughout the books. I think it's a cute ship, even though I don't really know much about Palm.
Forkedblade: Six-Claws, one of Thorn's dragons at the Scorpion Den, describes Palm as a sweet, clever, and nervous dragon. Smolder, is this true?
Smolder: Three moons, of course it is! There is only one Palm, and she is the sweetest and cleverest dragon I have ever known.
Amber: Aw, that's so sweet!
Thorn: And it means nothing's going on between him and my daughter.
Sunny: Nithing ever was, Mother.
Forkedblade: Palm, it also says that you adore Smolder—
Smolder: Of course she does!
Palm: Insufferable though he may be, yes.
Forkedblade: And are also terrified of the queen, who is actually no longer queen, but used to be.
Oasis: How dare you disrespect me?
Smolder: Shut up, you're dead.
Oasis: How dare you talk back to me! You were always a quiet and sensible dragon, Smolder!
Burn: That's the only reason you outlived your brothers.
Scald and Singe: *Shudder*
Smolder: Yeah, well, a scavenger killed you, so you're not as intimidating as you were before.
Oasis: I am greatly offended!
Smolder: And you're still dead.
Forkedblade: Anyway, Palm, why were you terrified of the queen?
Palm: Oh! She didn't like me at all. I just remember the first time Smolder brought me to eat a royal banquet with his family. Blaze was perfectly delighted to see that her brother was in love and kept showing me all these jewels—they were really quite pretty, although I did my best not to compliment Blaze too much—she is rather vain, isn't she? —And Burn and Blister were none too pleased, but they always did look rather grumpy in my opinion. But the queen—in the village I came from, she was deeply respected and every dragonet was told of how kind she was, so I came to the banquet thinking that we would get along easily.
Oasis: Fat chance.
Smolder: Slim chance.
Starflight: That's weird, because fat and slim are antonyms and yet fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing.
Fatespeaker: You're so clever, Starflight!
Sunny: *Looks jealous*
Amber: Sunnyflight! Eeeee!
Thorn: (to Starflight) STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER.
Forkedblade: I'm sorry, Palm, you were saying?
Palm: Oh, it was just that we obviously didn't get along easily. I kept trying to talk to her and she would always ignore me, or just say one word. And I wasn't allowed to eat any of the food on the table that was meant for the royalties. The servants were told me to bring me my own banquet, and I felt so terrible because I wasn't that hungry because of all the hostility, so I snuck most of the food into my satchel so I could bring it back to my village, and I think the Queen thought I ate all the food and just took to staring at me in disgust. And Smolder felt so awkward and terrible because he could see she hated me—
Smolder: It wasn't your fault. My mother just hated everybody.
Oasis: Actually, I didn't hate you. I was testing you to see if you were worthy of Smolder's love.
Smolder: Since when did you care enough to do something like that for me?
Forkedblade: Continue, Palm.
Palm: And, well, after dinner, the Queen asked to talk to me, and I thought she would tell me to stay away, but she didn't. She surprised me, because she asked me how the food was and how life was in my village and whether my family was getting along well, and if I thought she was a good queen. And of course I had to say she was a good queen! I thought she was too, at that moment, because she was very polite even after dinner. She said goodbye and hoped I would come again. I was very happy because at last she seemed okay with me. But then I heard her threatening Smolder, saying that if he thought she would let him take me as a mate, he'd better think again, or someone would meet an unfortunate and untimely end.
Scald and Singe: *Shudder*
Oasis: Hey, I didn't kill you too!
Smolder: YOU KILLED PALM?
Oasis: Maybe! But I didn't kill your brothers!
Scald and Singe: Yeah, Burn killed us, but death is a touchy subject.
Oasis: (to Burn) HOW DARE YOU KILL YOUR OWN BROTHERS!
Burn: They annoyed me too much.
Oasis: That is no excuse!
Amber: So is that why you disappeared, Palm, because you were scared for Smolder?
Palm: No. I was selfish. I loved Smolder so much.
Smolder: How is that selfish? That's sweet.
Palm: But no! I wanted to stay with you because I loved you so much. I didn't care if I put someone else in danger as long as I was with you.
Amber: *Gets the feels*
Palm: So I stayed with him until I couldn't anymore.
Smolder: Yeah, what kept you away?
Palm: I don't know. It was after I started to stay permanently in the palace. Smolder and I had talked about marriage. And one night, I woke up, and it was dark. And then there was this bright flash of light, and I don't know what happened next.
Amber: That's super sad! I would really like to go into more detail, but unfortunately our time is up! Palm, perhaps we could work you into another talk show so that we could hear more. But until then, we must say goodbye.
Forkedblade: Yeah, next season we'll have a few family episodes in addition to these pairing interviews.
Amber: Today, as a special request, we have two dragons who I wasn't even aware were part of a ship together...
Forkedblade: I didn't know fans shipped them together, but tomorrow we'll be interviewing Tsunami and Qibli, at their request.
Amber: And because they're our BFF's, we couldn't say no!
Winter: Amber, I hacked into your social media account on my iPad and deleted the image you took of me and Moon without my permission.
Qibli: I didn't know Winter was a hacker.
Amber: That's okay. I have a million copies on a back up account for this specific reason.
Winter: Looks like I have a lot of hacking to do.
Amber: Looks like I need to make one million more copies of that photo.
Starflight: Dragons don't have iPads or social media...that's a scavenger thing...
Author's Note: I really like the PalmxSmolder ship, even though we've never had the opportunity to meet her. I had to make up a bit of history involving Palm's meeting the queen. Hope you guys don't mind.
Anyway, tomorrow's episode should be fairly amusing...
As always, I appreciate all feedback! Thank you for reading! You guys are awesome!
