Seeking shelter from the rain, you stand in the mouth of a large cave.
There is a sound like someone moving a large piece of chain mail, something vaguely orange moving into the shadows away from you.
A glowing pair of eyes opens slowly, level with you but as wide apart as your arms, followed swiftly by another.
With a crash, a pair of huge paws fall either side of you, both sets of eyes moving up rapidly, swaying slowly as the paws drag their owner into the light.
The serpentine dragon pulls her claws through the stone next to where you stand, tearing great gouges in the rock.
Running would clearly be pointless.
It rears up to a great height, pulling both it's heads back, mouths opening as if preparing for a strike...

But then it settles somewhat, arms folding in a relaxed pose, both heads regarding you curiously before speaking in two voices but in unison.

"I am a collector. Be it of materialssss or more preferably information."

First one tongue flicks. Then the other.

"If you have nothing to trade for your life you will sssserve as food."

Both heads smile far above you

"Let'ssss talk... And see what you have to offer."

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Design adopted from: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10444839/
Will be changing it a fair bit but for now I just had to draw it o3o

This is Fate.
Yes, both of them.
Fate was hatched from a clutch that contained only one living dragon, a mutation from her odd parentage that left both heads in control of one side of the body.
Each head contained in-fact one half of the same brain, the two halves unable to communicate and coordinate until a magic crystal, split in half by a dragon's claw, was imbedded in her skulls.

Both halves able to communicate, Fate began her life of hardship, struggling to survive and grow into the huge creature she is today.

She tends to alternate between which head swallows her meals or, if she has no reason to be nice to the prey (sapience is reason enough) she will occationally swallow half in each head and sever the unfortunate creature in the middle.

She's not evil. She's just had a very tough life in which most people tried to kill her (and still do.)
Often she survived an encounter with someone who would otherwise kill her by trading information on other, more dangerous and/or interesting finds in exchange for her life.
She still takes this trade very seriously and has information from far and wide, including all the continents, almost every country, every realm and has dirt on every person in power.
She makes it known that, should anyone "silence" her, she has ways that the information will leak into public knowledge.

And so, she acquires information and valuable objects in exchange for sparing those who come her way. Some even offer their service, meaning she doesn't even have to leave her cave if she doesn't want to.

If you want something found.
If you want something hidden.
If you want dirt on an enemy.
If you want to know anything worth knowing.

Call Fate, and bring something worthy of exchange.