Metamorphosis? - Part 1

Fiesty.Lotus finishes dressing in the clothes that Can had stashed in the sack and walks over to the bookcase

Fitheach Eun finishes winding her hair around her head to hide her ears and goes over to see what Fiesty has found in the old books

Fitheach Eun: A book lays open on the desk and Fit studies it

Fiesty.Lotus: I see some real technical books here

Fiesty.Lotus: I cant' make head nor tail of em

Looking at the Books 

Talia.Sunsong: looks over Fiesty's shoulder at what Druid Fitheach is studying

Fitheach Eun: this one on the desk has strange drawings

Talia.Sunsong: I can't understand the book either, but then again, I usually don't

Fitheach Eun: "I wonder what a dirigible is..."

Talia.Sunsong: It that a form of demon?

Fiesty.Lotus: Oh Talia, you do look nice in that and Sister- that dress becomes yer.

Fitheach Eun: "It could be..."

Talia.Sunsong: Twirls. "I look pretty?"

Fiesty.Lotus: Oh, look at the picture with it

Fitheach Eun: Ah thank you Sister, you look really good in that dress as well.

Fiesty Looking Good in the New Dress

Fitheach Eun: That picture looks like that flying ship Dragon attacked

Talia.Sunsong: Did the ship taste good?

Savage.Taurus: shrugs, "Meh....I've had better"

Fiesty.Lotus: Yes- it does- maybe thet is what the name means? “They are amazin”

Talia.Sunsong: stomach grumbles

Fitheach Eun darts a glance at Talia, knowing what will come next

Talia.Sunsong: pokes through pile of turnips. "Where's the cream?"

Fiesty.Lotus looks to see some history books and something called etiquette.

Fitheach Eun goes back to the books and turns a page

Fiesty.Lotus: “I think I might study these some.".

Wondering if the Books Can Help

Talia.Sunsong: "How is a Fae supposed to eat?" She holds up a turnip.

Fitheach Eun: “Me, too” "Just bite into it Talia"

Fiesty.Lotus smiles at the fae and nods

Fiesty.Lotus: "We do gotta eat."

Fitheach Eun: "You have all those pointy teeth, don't you?"

Talia.Sunsong: Looks askance at the turnip, gingerly takes one bite and drops the turnip to the wooden floor. "I'll starve to death"

Savage.Taurus:: "I'm hungry too," belches a small flame

Fitheach Eun: "Is it dark outside yet?"

Talia.Sunsong: Sniffs air. "I smell food cooking from outside"

Fiesty.Lotus looks up from the books and grabs a carrot to munch on.

Fitheach Eun: "Talia come back!"

Talia.Sunsong: throws open door

Savage.Taurus:: sniffs the air as well, and thinks he smells some promising morsels, "chickens...goats..."

Fiesty.Lotus: "Oh dear."

Talia.Sunsong: Ignoring the elf, she follows the food smells

Fitheach Eun sighs and follows her

Fiesty.Lotus: follows the hungry crowd

Talia.Sunsong: throws her cape over the baby dragon

Savage.Taurus:: finds a pen full of goats behind the neighbor's house

Savage Finds the Goats

Fitheach Eun regards the brightly lighted pier with awe; " What is that?

Talia.Sunsong: "Ohhhh! Look at all the sparking lights"

Fiesty.Lotus looks back at Savage

Talia.Sunsong: listens to tinny music from a pipe organ on the pier

Savage.Taurus: eyes the goat pen, then spots a chicken coop nearby, looking back and forth, trying to decide

Fiesty.Lotus: “You don't eat them you hear! The will find us if you do."

Fitheach Eun: "Sister, if you watch the dragon; I will try to control the fae?"

Fiesty.Lotus nods and hurries back

Talia.Sunsong: "Look at all the pretty,shiny things on the dock"

Fitheach Eun runs after the wandering fae finally catching up to her on the pier

Fit Chases the Errant Fae

Savage.Taurus: forgetting he isn't dragon size anymore, he hurdles the fence and attacks a goat, but he has no claws to sink into the goat flesh and his mouth won’t fit around the goat's neck

Fiesty.Lotus: "We needs the goats fer milk and the chickens fer eggs."

Fiesty.Lotus: you behave yerself now

Talia.Sunsong: stops by cotton candy machine

Talia.Sunsong: watches the sugar spin out into strands

Fitheach Eun spies a coin on the ground and picks it up

Savage.Taurus: becomes frustrated as the goat bleats and bucks and wiggles away. "Bah! This body is useless! How can you stand to live in this weak shape?"

Fiesty.Lotus: “We will find you meat soon- they got a market here”

Talia.Sunsong: sniffs the air "Ohh I want some."

Fiesty.Lotus: “We can get stuff there- hmm- a bit later on”

Fitheach Eun approaches the seller and offers him the coin silently

Fitheach Eun: He takes the coin and offers each of them a cone of the strange substance

Talia.Sunsong: "I want the pink one!"

Cotton Candy

The vendor then hands Fit several smaller coins back

Fitheach Eun stuffs them in belt pouch without looking and looks around at the flooring carefully for more

Talia.Sunsong: grabs a cone full of pink cotton candy. She takes a bite and smiles blissfully "It's sweet. No turnips for me!"

The vendor looks astonished; " My candy does not taste like turnips", he sputters

Fiesty.Lotus: “So, do you want to see what the market has - we might be able to pass fer citizens?”

Savage.Taurus: ignores the laughter of the man on the coal boat going down the river as he tries to wrastle the goat, but has no idea what to do without claws or a large mouth, and only manages to get poked in the eye by the goat's horn

River Barge

Fiesty.Lotus tries to snap the Dragon out of it and turns and notices the chickens

Fiesty.Lotus: “We might get some eggs here.”

Talia.Sunsong: runs over to where lights flash around a wheel

Savage.Taurus:: gives up in exasperation and then tries to figure out what the little one is going on about

Fiesty.Lotus: “Yer want ter eat??”

Talia.Sunsong: "What's this?" Talia touches the lights around the edge of the wheel

Fiesty.Lotus: “Then streighten uop and see the light- yer ain't a drahgon now”

Savage.Taurus: “Yeah, turn me back into my normal form. I can't eat anything like this.”

Fitheach Eun: "I do not know, Talia; I have never seen such a thing"

Fiesty.Lotus shrugs at the Dragon's stubborness

Fiesty.Lotus: “I am gonna get me some eggs”

Talia.Sunsong: A man standing nearby tips his hat. "You spin the wheel for money, Miss"

The old man at the sparkly wheel, politely hides a chuckle and steps aside

Savage.Taurus: follows the little one, "Turn me back, turn me back"

"You just spin it, miss" he says; sometimes you get prizes.

Talia.Sunsong: "I just spin a wheel and get money? That's easy." She tugs on wheel to make it move.

Just Spin the Wheel

Savage.Taurus:: Eggs? How can you live off such little things?

Fiesty.Lotus shakes her head- "It be all of us that can do that, you just learn to eat like a human fer awhile"

The man laughs. "You have to put money down for it to count."

Fiesty.Lotus grabs some eggs from the coop

Talia.Sunsong: stops tugging on wheel. "It takes money to make money? That's no fun."

Fiesty.Lotus: “These will cook up nice."

Savage.Taurus:: stomach grumbles loudly

Fiesty.Lotus: "yer can even eat em raw"

Fiesty.Lotus hands the Dragon an egg

Fiesty.Lotus: just watch fer the shell

Talia.Sunsong: runs over to the band organ

Savage.Taurus: grabs the egg and shoves it in his mouth and chomps down, making it explode and dribble down his chin

Talia.Sunsong: "Look at all the noise it makes. I wish I could make that much noise."

Savage.Taurus: messy, but good....crunchy, like a knight in armor

Savage Eats the Egg Shell and All

Talia.Sunsong: smiles as mechanical trumpets and pipes play.

Savage.Taurus: “Need more food. Get me more food, tiny person.”

Fitheach Eun gestures towards the shops beyond the pier. "Talia, let's go see what is there?"

Fiesty.Lotus: “Let’s go find this market - maybe we can find something there.”

Savage.Taurus:: "ok," follows her

Fitheach Eun sees a strange device by the steps down to the sand

Fitheach Eun: "Talia, is that a small carriage?"

Talia.Sunsong: With a growl, the baby dragon wriggles around under her cape. Smelling food, he sticks his head out

Talia.Sunsong: "I can't keep the baby dragon under this cape."

Fitheach Eun: I wonder if we could hide him in that carriage?

Talia.Sunsong: She follows Fit. Near the steps, is a forgotten carriage

Fitheach Eun climbs down the steps and pulls the blue carriage up onto the boardwalk

Talia.Sunsong: Eyes dart from side to side as she looks for anyone watching them

Fitheach Eun: "Will this work?"

Talia.Sunsong: "Blue matches Rorn, the baby dragon."

Fitheach Eun: “It does.”

Talia.Sunsong: She sets the dragon on the pillow in the carriage. He perches on the edge and looks eagerly around

Fitheach Eun smiles at the young one

Talia.Sunsong: Smiling proudly, she pushes the carriage with the baby dragon.

Cycles of Time

With fog and darkness closing on the remaining River Lands, Saphira Mistwalker urgently flew home to consult with her elders. She hoped and prayed to the Great Mother that the River Lands and their inhabitants could yet be saved. But the ancient wise ones of her clan could give her no more advice. So, frantic and frustrated, she flew back again across the seas. She arrived to find ...

Desolation

... everything was desolate. Most of the continent had been consumed by the fog. Even the elven lands where she landed were devoid of life, lingering dying and abandoned under a veil, the sun giving a lurid glow to the foggy sky. Saphira hissed and roared out her pain and frustration, and hung her head in sorrow, her tears dripping to the barren ground. She coughed and gasped for breath when the fog rolled over her.

With her heart heavy, Saphira slowly flew home, growing weaker even when she stopped where she could to eat and rest. She arrived in the ancient forest deathly tired, filled with despair. Her elders and family tried to heal and comfort her, but inconsolable, she withdrew to the deepest shadows of the forest to be alone with the old magics. Overcome by her grief and the evil fog's effects, she fell into the healing sleep of dragons. When her kindred found her, she was deep in the grip of that singular reverie known only to her kind. The wisest among the shadow dragon clan were consulted. They foresaw Saphira returning to the two-legs in a distant time, and counseled that she be allowed to sleep. The clan wove their most powerful shadow magics where she lay to protect her, allowing their Princess to sleep for nearly three hundred years.

When Saphira awoke she felt cleansed and filled with a renewed urgency to go out into the world. Because of the healing sleep and the magics laid around her she appeared to have aged not at all. Still brash and impatient, she wished to be off immediately, but her elders demurred, since she was not fully free of the reverie. Finally, with their blessing, she set out again, driven to seek her purpose and place again away from her people. She turned on the wind, following the strange tug that led her, wondering where it would take her.

When she reached the new lands that called to her, Saphira wove her shadows of concealment. Much was strange to her eyes, for here was a two-legs city like and yet unlike the ones she had seen before. The surrounding country held many familiar things, but many looked ... old. She gulped as she observed the changes that had occurred in the world in the centuries she lay sleeping. Was there still a place for her beyond her forest haven? Did the two-legs remember her kind, and if they did, how would she be received?

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Strange New Land

As she wheeled and glided over the lands, she sensed familiar presences. 'No', Saphira thought, 'this could not be ... or could it?' Many of her two-leg friends from the past were long-lived like she was, but how had they come out of the calamity centuries ago, and how could they actually be here? She dropped lower, approaching a wild area of the lands, and saw a drum circle like those in the River Lands long before. Figures danced around the fire, familiar faces. With a joy awakening in her heart she thought she had lost, she dropped to the ground and dismissed her shadows, appearing to those in front of her.

Transformation

Fit, Fiesty and Talia mutter together for a minute about how to best hide the dragon and decide on a glamour.

Fitheach Eun: Dragon, we need to know your name; it will help the magic

Savage.Taurus: Magic? What kind of tricks you wanna do to me?

Fiesty Lotus: "Yer certain yer want ter go ahead with this dragon?"

Fitheach Eun: You are too conspicuous as you are

Discussion

Talia.Sunsong: "He tries to eat airships. He's worse than me!"

Fitheach Eun: You may actually have a point there, Talia

Fiesty Lotus guffaws behind her hand

Savage.Taurus: I'm not conspicitous!

Talia.Sunsong: nods enthusiastically

Savage.Taurus: I look awesome you and all know it and you all are just jealous and stuff

Fitheach Eun: Oh right, who tried to eat an airship?

Fiesty Lotus: Yer can't go into town like that- they will get mad

Talia.Sunsong: cocks head "I don't think you would pass as a seagull"

Fitheach Eun: I'm sure none of the locals noticed that

Savage.Taurus: seagull? phewy! I eats seagulls

Fitheach Eun: Remember that weapon they hit you with?

Savage.Taurus: grumbles, "I don't know what you're talkin 'bout"

Talia.Sunsong: pulls out wand "I can do Fae magic on him! Turn him into a newt."

Savage.Taurus: Don't you dare, nanny!

Talia.Sunsong: swishes wand through the air, dropping sparks in grass

Savage.Taurus: jumps back

Fitheach Eun: Oh right and I did not heal you, either I suppose?

Fiesty Lotus winces

Savage.Taurus: glares at the impetuous drood

Savage.Taurus: Why I gotta change? I like being me

Ready to Begin

Talia.Sunsong: "do you like villagers with torches chasing you?"

Fitheach Eun: You are too large, and too conspicuous to move around unnoticed

Fitheach Eun: Now what would you like to be?

Savage.Taurus: sighs, "Ok drudid, what are my choices?"

Talia.Sunsong: "Newt?"

Fitheach Eun regards the others questioningly

Savage.Taurus: growls

Talia.Sunsong: "Rabbit?"

Savage.Taurus: How bout I just look like you silly folk for now?

Fiesty Lotus nods

Talia.Sunsong: "No fairy wings for you" preens hair

Savage.Taurus: My wings are better anyway

Fitheach Eun: safest and probably easiest for us

Fiesty Lotus begins to mutter a soft chant to the earth spirit

Fitheach Eun looks worriedly at Talia's wand

Savage.Taurus: Will I have clothes like you all?

Talia.Sunsong: looks at Dragon's leathery wings "My wings are prettier"

Fitheach Eun calls on the water and air spirits

Talia.Sunsong: "I'll help!" waves wand frantically

Savage.Taurus: Your wings are tasty

Fiesty Lotus adds fire to her chanting and touches her staff to the earth

The Incantation

Fitheach Eun: the dragon is surrounded by a blue glow

Talia.Sunsong: "Quick change him before he eats my wings."

Talia.Sunsong: waves wand faster and chants in Fae tongue

Savage.Taurus: Hey, that feels weird. I don't think I like this....

Fitheach Eun: the blue glow pulses and slowly turns color...

Talia.Sunsong: wand starts to send out colored waves

Savage.Taurus: I don't want to be a silly biped...I changed my mind!

Talia.Sunsong: "Too late"

Fitheach Eun continues to chant softly

Talia.Sunsong: "You'll be a biped and like it"

Savage.Taurus: growls

Fitheach Eun: the glow cycles to green

Fiesty Lotus’s staff grows strong in the spirit

The Druids' Staves Glow

Savage.Taurus: whispers, "Ok, now don't tell anybody.... I've never told anyone this...my name is...."

Talia.Sunsong: "Magic wand do as I say, turn this one today"

Savage.Taurus: mumbles something under his breath

Fitheach Eun: I can't hear you Dragon

Savage.Taurus: come closer

Savage.Taurus: huddles conspiratorially

Talia.Sunsong: moves closer

Savage.Taurus: My name is....

Fitheach Eun moves closer

Savage.Taurus: whispers, "...Svagtuz..."

Fitheach Eun: As soon as Svagtuz gives his name, the haze deepens and the colors cycles from green to yellow and then to red and back to blue

Savage.Taurus: Don't tell no one!

Talia.Sunsong: "Does it give us magic power over you?"

Savage.Taurus: NO!

Savage.Taurus: You got no powers over me, gnat!

Fitheach Eun: the druids' haze deepens and obscures the dragon completely

The Glowing Haze Covers the Dragon

Talia.Sunsong: "Hmphh just trying to help."

Savage.Taurus: Hey, what's happening?!

Fiesty Lotus visualizes a tall Victorian human standing there

Savage.Taurus: Oh, this is not good, this is not good at all

Fiesty Lotus chants deeper

Fitheach Eun catches Fiesty's image and concentrates on it

Savage.Taurus: Ugh...I think I'm gonna barf

Fitheach Eun: the swirling haze pulses brightly; still changing colors

Talia.Sunsong: adds her chaotic Fae magic to the haze of magic power

Savage.Taurus: …shouldn't have eaten that extra sheep...they go straight to my hips....

Talia.Sunsong: notices wool in grass "you should drink cream instead"

Fitheach Eun: The druids’ staves glow brightly and pulse with the haze

Fiesty Lotus looks to Druid Fit and Talia

Savage.Taurus: Your sticks are all glowin and stuff. Is that supposed to happen?

Fitheach Eun: The haze flashes brightly and swirls up; the dragon cannot be seen

Savage.Taurus: Ahhhhh! Noooooooo

Talia.Sunsong: small white spheres fly off the fae wand and swirls in the haze

Talia.Sunsong: "Ooooo pretty magic"

Fitheach Eun: Suddenly the globe collapses

A New Victorian

Savage.Taurus: Gah! What have you done to me? I'm hideous!

Talia.Sunsong: "No, you're cute."

Savage.Taurus: looks down at his feeble form

Fitheach Eun: the druids' staves glow dies and Fit staggers back almost exhausted

Talia.Sunsong: "Not only did we make you into a man, we made you into a good looking one."

Fitheach Eun appraises the man standing where the dragon had been....”Not bad.”

Savage.Taurus: What are these clothes? I look like a haberdasher in drag!

Baby Dragon Rorn gazes "Dada?"

Savage.Taurus: Oh no! I don’t want the kid to see me this way!

Savage.Taurus: He will never respect me

Talia.Sunsong: "Why not? You are handsome.'

Savage.Taurus: Ugh! I look like one of ...of...you!

Fitheach Eun: It is nearly sundown; if we are going to find this hideout we had better go

Talia.Sunsong: runs hands along curves "No, you don't look like one of us females."

Fiesty Lotus just smiles at their work

The Dragon is Transformed

Savage.Taurus: sighs and grumbles, "I could never tell the difference anyway. You all look the same to me."

Talia.Sunsong: "Is there food at the hideout?"

Fiesty Lotus: Yes, let’s get to the hideout

Talia.Sunsong: "I need to hide my wings and the baby dragon"

Savage.Taurus: I could just tell you by your wings, you little kidnapper

Fiesty Lotus: I did find some veggies from a garden

Fiesty Lotus: They be back tere

Savage.Taurus: grumbles, "Gonna be hard to catch a decent meal in this form"

Talia.Sunsong: "I didn't kidnap the baby dragon, he followed me after I fed him."

Savage.Taurus: Luring unsuspecting juveniles with your sweet treats. Its scandalous.

Fitheach Eun pulls out her cloak and wraps it around her covering most of her gear and  pulls the braids down over her ears..."You said there were no elves here, my sister?"

Talia.Sunsong: waves her wand to knit the grasses together into a shawl

Fiesty Lotus: I did not see any but humans

Savage.Taurus: When do I get a wand like y'all have?

Talia.Sunsong: "Weave you way into cloth, make the shawl I have sought."

Fitheach Eun: If you want to be a druid, you will have years of study ahead

Savage.Taurus: Study? Sounds boring

Talia.Sunsong: glowing balls, small move into the grass, which bends and weaves itself into a simple shawl

Fitheach Eun: It was very interesting

Savage.Taurus: I gotta find some other dragons to teach me stuff

Fitheach Eun: Will you lead us, my sister?

Fiesty Lotus: Yes, I know the way

Talia.Sunsong: puts on shawl, hiding wings and baby dragon

Savage.Taurus: Y'all are sisters? You don’t look anything alike. Maybe you were kidnapped like my kid

Savage.Taurus: follows them begrudgingly

Trying to Look Inconspicuous

Fiesty Lotus slides along, trying to look inconspicuous

Fitheach Eun drifts like a shadow behind her

Talia.Sunsong: follows the Hobbit "Which house is our hideout? I'm hungry."

Talia.Sunsong: looks at the carriage. "Look hornless unicorns pulling humans”

Fitheach Eun stops amazed at the strange birds

Fiesty Lotus jimmies the door the way Can has it set up

Fitheach Eun: closes the door carefully and bolts it again

Savage.Taurus: Better than horny unicorns, let me tell ya. This one time....

Talia.Sunsong: "Home?"

The Hideout at Last

Fitheach Eun: This is quite nice, Fiesty; you and Can have done very well

Talia.Sunsong: scoofs "Unicorns are too proud to pull a carriage. At least the hornless unicorns can't stab me."

Fiesty Lotus: It be dusty but nobody should find us.

Talia.Sunsong: sees pile of produce on the floor. "Food!"

Talia.Sunsong: digs through pile. "tomatoes, radishes, eggplant. Hey, no cream!"

Fitheach Eun flicks a spark to the candles and lights them

Fiesty Lotus: There be my veggies - It were all I could find time fer."

Talia.Sunsong: "You didn't milk a cow?"

Fiesty Lotus: They be goats next door; we will get us some tonight

Talia.Sunsong: "you'll get us some cream?" licks lips in anticipation

Savage.Taurus: goes up the stairs and finds mattresses

Fiesty Lotus: "No, goat's milk

 Talia.Sunsong: "Why is there a brain in a jar?" pokes jar and brain sloshes in fluid. Talia wrinkles nose

Savage.Taurus: Oh, a bed. I'm tired from all that tranforminatin. Gonne rest a bit.

Dragon Rests

Finding a Hideout

Can Wobbit: Can looks at the old house again and was quite satisfied about what he found out, when he hears a soft tapping of hobbit feet behind him

Fiesty Lotus stealthily slides up to Can.

Can Wobbit turns around, seeing Fiesty approaching slowly.

Fiesty Lotus: "Greetins Can."

Can Wobbit: "Greetings Fiesty"

The Abandoned House

Fiesty Lotus: "You got sumthin?"

Can Wobbit: "I think I found something very interesting

Fiesty Lotus: "Good."

Can Wobbit: "this old house seems deserted ..... The front door is locked. "

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh, that be interestin."

Can Wobbit: but I climbed up on the balcony ... and that door ....."   (he grins).

Can Wobbit: “that door they did not lock. It´s open. "

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh my, that was clever."

Can Wobbit: "I explored the house ...... and it seems that it has been a long time, since anyone lived in there."

Fiesty Lotus rubs her hands in glee.

Can Wobbit: "thick layers of dust, and barely furnished, it is ..."

Can Wobbit: "... but I think, it might make a good place to hide for all of us, until we find out more about this town and its inhabitants.”

Fiesty Lotus nods.

Can Wobbit: "Want to get inside, and have a look at the house?

"Fiesty Lotus: "Yes, indeed."

Can Wobbit: "Let me get up to on the balcony again, and see if I can open the front door from inside .... And if not, I´ll pull you up with my rope. "

Can Wobbit looks at the Hobbit .... and smiles:" I don´t think, I´ll be able to throw you up there, little Lady. "

The Balcony

Fiesty Lotus: "I be a hobbit- I kin climb." (grins.)

Can Wobbit: "Let me try to open the front door, before you start climbing ..... People might wake by the bumping sound, if you fall.  "

Fiesty Lotus whispers "OK."

Can Wobbit climbs down the stairs inside the house, and walks across the room to the front door."

Can Wobbit finds a heavy bolt on the door, and slowly pulls it aside.

Can Wobbit: with a gentle shrieking sound, it moves, and gives the door free.

Can Wobbit carefully opens it, just a small gap, and waves Fiesty to come inside"

Fiesty Lotus slides into the house and looks around.

Can Wobbit whispers " See ...”

Can Wobbit: "We will have to put oil on that damn bolt."

Fiesty Lotus: "Yes, hope we can find some."

Fiesty Lotus looks at the dust on the table. She sees the old tattered books and gets excited.

Fiesty Finds the Books

Can Wobbit follows Fiesty´s eyes.

Can Wobbit: "I think there must have been a lored or wise person living in here"

Fiesty Lotus: “Books! We kin see what this world is like from em! This be a find."

Can Wobbit points at the cupboard:" Do you see that brain in the glass, Fiesty?”

Fiesty Lotus looks at what Can is pointing at and shudders.. (She stares at the brain and then turns away.)

Can Wobbit climbs up the stairs again to the upper floor.

Fiesty Lotus follows Can up the stairs.

Can Wobbit: "There´s few windows up here, and pillows and blankets, even a bed."

Fiesty Lotus: "Good, though I would air them mattresses out some."

Can Wobbit: "Maybe at night?”

Can Wobbit steps forward, and jumps on the mattress.

Fiesty Lotus waves her hands at the dust the mattress gives off.

Can Wobbit: a cloud of dust rises from it at once, and makes Can cough.

Fiesty Lotus shakes her head and smiles."

Soft but Dusty

Can Wobbit smiles at Fiesty ... " Soft though." (He adds with a grin).

Can Wobbit: "What do you think, Fiesty, might this make a good hideaway for us all?

Fiesty Lotus: "Yes, it will do fer us. We jest have to be careful."

Can Wobbit: " I agree, it will be difficult, to bring the dragon in here secretly.

Can Wobbit: "And even more difficult, to keep Dangerfae from doing nonsense."

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes, after dark. The dragon may not want to come though. I dunno. We already have them airboats on alert from his messing about."

Can Wobbit: "I think he will come, as soon as Talia will be inside.’

Can Wobbit looks at Fiesty:" We should hurry, to go back to the others, as long as it is dark, I would not want to take too much risk of being discovered."

Can Wobbit: "And we cannot wait too much longer."

Fiesty Lotus: "Alright. The sun is comin up."

Can Wobbit: It´s already beginning to dawn."

Fiesty Lotus: “Let’s go.”

Can Wobbit: "Let´s ... but let me tie a rope to the bolt first, so we can open the door from outside.] Fiesty Lotus: "Yes, a rope be a good idea."

Can finished fixing their entryway and they departed to join the others.

Dawn is Coming