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"Gosh-Darnit! Damn that stupid wizard and his prejudices!" A figure yelled, or squeaked in more likely terms, as she hid underneath a pile of ferns. It was a naga, except instead of the colossal figure that her species was known for, this one was different. The creature was only about a 7 inches long, and a mere 7 lbs from her old form, a gigantic 10 ft and almost 500 pounds. However, this creature, or should as she likes to be called, Lynda, had accidentally made herself a target of a shrinking spell from a powerful wizard traveling through her fields. She only wanted to ask if he was alright traveling through, but instead The wizard took it as she wanted to eat him. Always. Hey, not all nagas ate people! Only deer and stuff that didn't talk, you know? Or, that was Lynda's rule.

The screeching of a hawk made Lynda quiver under her protective flora, wishing she didn't have to get into this mess. She had no way of knowing how to reverse herself, and the wizard had vanished before the Naga could explain herself. Sighing, Lynda looked around her, hoping someone would help her with her little predicament.

(This has the potential to move my character's story a bit further... )

The Wargish Golem was wandering the wilderness as usual, though this time was different... He could hear some sort of high pitched sqeeking coming from somewhere nearby. This intrigued him. He slowly followed the sound of the small voice to a thicket of underbrush, the exact thicket where Lynda was hiding... He spoke outloud to himself... "...Now what could that be...?"

Thunderous footsteps was the first thing Lynda noticed, her eyes stretching wide with fear as a pair of stone feet began to walk towards her. She let out a small whimper, trying to hide herself more in the branches. As the creature called out, Lynda tried to make her voice more loud and scary, hoping to at least make the golem leave her alone. "Go away please, nothing to see here..."

After hearing a reply by one the most faked deep voices he ever heard, he continued looking, pushing plants and underbrush out of way with temporarily dulled claws, to finally see Lynda under all of it. "...Well then. A small snake girl in a bush..." He mutters to himself. "...You don't see that everyday..."

"Well you don't see a giant rock monster everyday, especially in these parts of the woods..." Lynda looked up at the monster, her body visibly shaking as she said her retort. She never knew much of what could be bigger than here in her regular form, other than dragons and whatnot, but seeing the rock monster made her scared. Was he going to kill her? "Please don't step on me..." She whimpered, curling up her tail around her so that her face was hidden in her patterned coils.

"..." He chooses to ignore her comment, but sends her a stern glare. "I'm a Golem, not a rock monster..." Upon closer inspection... Lynda looks familiar in some way... "...By the way... have we met before? You look familiar... are you a Siren?"

Lynda looked up from her coils, looking up at the golem with a suspicious expression. Her body uncurled itself as she realized that the golem might not kill her, but her body was still rigid with fear. "No, I'm just a naga that ran out of luck with a stupid wizard. No sirens have been around this part, or at least my part, for many years..." She replied, her emerald eyes peering into the golem's glowing blue ones.

"Ah, a naga. Sirens and Naga are from the same family yes?" He shuffles his front claws. "A wizard eh? Is that why you're so small? I just though your father was a dwarf..."

"Yeah, dumb wizard just comes along, and I was minding my own business when he decided that I was dangerous. Bam, now I'm tiny. Also, if my mother was with a dwarf, she would have probably eaten him," Lynda winced at the thought of her mother. Her family was a group of killers, and had left them years ago to live a more peaceful life. But, as usual, trouble never seemed to leave the poor naga alone. "I guess Sirens and Nagas are alike, but I don't lure anyone to their deaths. I just eat when I can and help people who won't scream and run away when I try."

"It seems like you are just like me... Many people mistake me for a wild beast like you did, but I don't harm anyone or anything without reason. Where I come from, Sirens and Nagas are active members of society in many villages and towns, I guess it's different here yes?" He shuffles his claws again. "Say, how about I help you track down that Wizard eh?"

"Well, us outcasts need to stick together then, and get me back to my usual, chubby self," Lynda stated with a grin, her body uncurling totally and slithering up to the Golem's feet. "Now, lift me up so I can actually see through this thick grass, please." She held up her arms, ready to get the wizard for turning her so small. But not eating, that would be gross.

He picks her up with two dulled claws by her waist, and puts her on the top of his head. "Now where do you think this wizard went?" He shuffles his claws again, this time making them go back to being sharp.

"He was heading east, but he dropped something when he was rushing off to who knows where." Lynda took something out of her pocket, a ring with a blue sapphire in the middle, and moved it so that the golem could see it for himself. "Does this design look familiar to you?"

"... If I didn't know any better I'd say that was a Terrivian work. Not much detail though." He starts walking eastward.

"It's all I got man, so, where did you come from stranger?" Lynda asked, her tiny body curling up on the head and keeping her balance.

"I... have no idea. Just a few months back I awoke in a old basement of a ruin being poked by villagers with sticks. A few months later that village burned down and this is where I am today. I've been in that basement dormant since I don't know when, so I couldn't tell you my past if I wanted to, if I even had one at all..." He keeps trodding forth. "Though I do remember vaguely of a Siren with brown hair, though I have no idea who that person even is..."

Lynda patted her hand on the Golem's head, not even sure if he could feel such a tiny touch on his rocky head. "Don't worry buddy, maybe while we go on our journey to find the dude, we can find out your past! So, we kill two birds in one stone, but not birds, birds are adorable."

"That's what I've been doing, wandering from one village to the next just to go to their libraries to see if they have a scrap of information on her... And you can probably guess what I found..." He keeps trotting eastward. "...So eh... what about you?"

"Um, yeah I'm just trying to stay away from my crazy family. They think that I'm just sick and want to bring me home to make me better and kill people. However, I know myself, I don't like killing just because I can. I eat when I feel hungry, and that's that. They haven't found me yet, but I was beginning to worry that my safe life here would end by them, not some wizard." Lynda explained her story, looking at the forest with her new perch. It was different when you were small, she thought.

He keeps trotting, but suddenly stops. "...This is getting us nowhere. Know of any villages or settlements around here uh... uh... I never asked for your name did I?"