Chapter 25 Leah the seamstress
June 26, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The fifth child and youngest daughter Leah had a talent and love for fabric work and paired with this was an interest in spiders fascinated by the arachnids ability to produce silk and weave webbing from it so to replicate it she hand crafted small wooden spiders and through her magic she could control them and have them weave fabric and cloth to turn into clothing her spider made works had become the most popular piece of fashion in all of Astraea but as her works became more desired demands increased to the point where she could no longer handle it alone
Ten years since she first opened her tailor shop Leah had taken in multiple apprentices taught each of them how to create small hand craft spiders and use them to weave together threads of fabric to create different pieces of clothing each with there own unique pattern and how they create these patterns that is thanks to the help of the people looking for new clothes for Leah would asked the customer to simply draw random scribbles on a paper and from that she turns the scribble into a beautiful pattern woven into the fabric of the dress, suit or whatever else they were looking for
One of the many hundreds of customers Leah's tailors shop would receive would be a drakkia like all drakkia he was tall and muscular to help carry their massive wings this drakkia would answer to the name Ryker and from how often he would pay this shop a visit it told Leah and her employees two things one whatever he did for work it involves fire and two the reason he won't get fire proof clothing is because there is someone they wish to see and Leah would mind seeing him around so often
After months of coming and going Ryker finally decided to approach Leah and asked "Would you like to have dinner? With me I mean. If you want?" Leah cut him off and told him "I'll see you at the Queens kitchen later today." Ryker excitingly "Yeah, yeah later today I be free by then." Later that day both Leah and Ryker were inside the restaurant the Queens kitchen having dinner together Ryker was falling over his own words and Leah was enjoying the sight of massive clumsy drakkia right before her and finding absolutely adorable
After this first date they had another and another after that and several others down the line this has lead to spending all the time they don't spend at work or with their families with each other and during these times together Leah would notice that the usually upbeat and lively Ryker would act more and more reserved and one day she decided to sit him down and asked directly "What's wrong?"
Ryker: What do mean nothings. . .
Leah: Don't give me that Ryker we spent so much time together I know when there is something going on with you don't me drag out of you just tell me please
Ryker: I'm homesick I miss the skies of my home kingdom I miss the food, not that the food here is I just miss that bit of familiarity that's all
Leah: Then lets move there
Ryker: No I don't want to leave you
Leah: That why I said lets as in us and before you interrupt me let me finish I can visit my family whenever and they can visit me whenever, there are people I trust to run my shop without me so if I am to move to the Drakkia kingdom everything here I now will be handled
Ryker didn't know what to say he simply hugged her and the next day Leah told her family that she will be moving to the Drakkia kingdom with Ryker and they supported her decision and on the day she left her entire family came to see her off and following Ryker they arrived within the Drakkia kingdom several days later and they were welcomed by four dragons, two other drakkia and three scale born these were Ryker's parents and siblings
After the warm welcome Leah and Ryker were surprised to see that Ryker's family had already built them a house for them they told them they didn't have to they couldn't built themselves but Ryker's mother wasn't having it she said "Their is no reason for future newly weds to have to built their own house." The two of them blushed at his mother words and the two quickly took a tour of their new house right next to Ryker's parents
After a few days they began to feel at home Ryker of course felt at home in his home kingdom but Leah had a bit more of a difficult time but it didn't last for the drakkia, scale born and dragon would require either out of necessity or simply want something new to wear Leah clothes line had quickly become some of the most popular brand in the kingdom and Leah would become a trusted clothe maker who's clothes came in many shapes and sizes each with there own unique pattern
It was not long before every soul in the Drakkia kingdom had Leah spider brand clothing even the other clothes makers had to realize something either they go out of business or they join in with Leah which they did and soon spider craft clothing became the most common piece of clothing seen in Drakkia and after becoming the most famous clothe maker Ryker would be proud of his wife and were a little envious but that made him fall more in love for her each and everyday
Notes:
If anyone is curious about Atlas wait for his own work titled Beyond the corpse continent