The Italian word that gives the meaning of this name is used in an Aria in the opera Aida by Giuseppe Vedri. The aria is Celeste Aida meaning heavenly Aida. I like the name because I like the aria, and because my father and grandfather also liked this aria.
Clay is a male MudWing, a Dragonet of Destiny, and the main protagonist in The Dragonet Prophecy, the very first book of the Wings of Fire series. Clay has fire-resistant scales, which he found out about when he pushed Peril down a tunnel as he tried to hide her from Queen Scarlet.
The sow bug (also known as the woodlouse, roly-poly, or pillbug), though often lumped in with centipedes and millipedes, is not a Myriapod but is actually a type of land-dwelling crustacean, related to lobsters, crayfish and crabs. The sow bug is brownish-gray in color and usually reaches no more than 3/4 of an inch. It has an oval-shaped body with a series of overlapping plates on its back, resembling a small armadillo or turtle. A sow bug typically has fourteen legs. Like centipedes and millipedes, sow bugs prefer a moist environment.