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Quickclaws lumbered in after them, not much bigger than the human. "Uh, Quickclaws," the dragon quickly answered, "Dragon. SwiftScales. Part of the colony."
He said this all really quickly, almost in a hysterical manner. He realized that he should explain, but decided against it. If they wanted answers, they could ask.

((Oof. I guess I'll just insert myself here xD))

Zulae had gotten herself lost in traveling back from collecting ingredients, as the Rakehnae female had slithered about, in hopes of taking to a trail back home. She wasn't flying, for she was saving energy to use her wings later, but Zulae did have her large bow equipped, and a potion ready to throw.

The terrain sort of helped the female traverse her vicinity, as Zulae continued onward. Her small pouch managed to remain slung between her wings, as she kept her guard up for any ambushers, or just an enemy in general.

Soon, however, the Rakehnae would happen upon an open, stone door that lead to a dark opening. Zulae tilted her head in the slightest, as she narrowed her eyes. There was a faint voice that emitted from the opening, which peaked the Rakehnae's curiosity. Following the source, she'd slither around, until Zulae was latched upside down of the stone door.

The Rakehnae female drew back her bow, and looked down. From her angle, Zulae shot it in, as if testing what would happen.

At the human's question, Charlotte turned back to look at him. "My name is Charlotte," she said. "I suppose that we should have introduced ourselves before, you're right. I'm a water dragon, so I have the ability to breathe underwater, at the cost of lacking fire and wings." She lowered her head next to Tevren, sniffing him. "You're certainly an interesting one," she told him. "I'm not going to try and eat you. I've strayed away from your taste after...well, we'll not dwell on that." She raised her head again, looking around. "Traps are always a concern in places like this, yes." She felt something clank off her scales, rattling to the ground next to her. She turned to look back at the entrance, seeing the winged form. "And who might you be?" She called.

The woman glided downward, with her bow quickly drawn back. She was staring rather intensely into the corridor, as her tail slithered in place with a rather sinuous notion.

The Rakehnae female's heart beated for a few moments, as her bow only remained in its drawn position. Her wings were now folded up, as the voice beyond the door spoke in a questioning manner.

"And who might you be?"

Zulae got herself into a defensive stance, as her bow aimed toward the area of the spoken voice. The Rakehnae stared in the direction of the voice that had spoken through the shadows, before saying in a decipherable murmur: "I thought I saw something inside here."

Tevren looked back after hearing the arrow hit Charlotte's scales and get deflected like a natural set of armor, hearing the timid voice and the silhouette of what Tevren at first thought was a Lamia Archer, "Um... You did. We came to explore these ruins. Please don't fire another arrow. If you miss there's a chance you could sever a trip wire and doom all of us in here. We mean you no harm." he calls out peacefully. After he says this he looks to Charlotte, "I envy your scales, Charlotte. They have admirable defensive qualities." he says complementingly to her.

Charlotte nodded at Tevren's words. "Thank you, Tevren," she said. "I'd like to keep them as long as I can." Turning back to the figure in the doorway, she tilted her head as they slithered down from the ceiling, and the dragoness began to walk back toward them. "You were correct in your thinking," she said, stepping into the light. She lowered her head so that it almost scraped the ground, stopping before she got too close. Studying the figure, she realized what kind of creature she was. "A Rakehnae..." She bowed, lowering herself to the ground. "I'm honored to make your acquaintance. Who might I have the pleasure of speaking with?" She asked.

Skela looked away from the dragon script and twords the entrance. Skela quickly places the torch in her paws and raced to Charlotte's side to see the new visitor.

When Iggy were done munching the beefjerky in her, she went to town on a rope. She slerped it like spaghetti.

Tevren started back toward the entrance when he suddenly felt something odd. It was like he heard a scream that wasn't a scream at all. It was like he heard it not with his ears, but with his aura. And the worst part was it sounded like it came from his rucksack. Curiosity slapped him in the face like a farmer does the ground with a garden til, and he quickly took a knee and slung his rucksack in front of him.

Opening it up, he was shocked to find a Slime in his bag, but what ticked him off was when he found that his relic music box was open and the slime was munching on one of the magic ropes from within it, "Hey. That is not yours. Spit it out right now." He says quietly enough that his voice doesn't echo in the ruins, but cross and stern enough to tell the slime he was serious.

Iggy had two options at this point. She could cooperate and release the rope so Tevren could put it away and she wouldn't be punished... Or she could play difficult and Tevren could do something himself to make her cooperate. Either way she could no longer hide in his bag because Tevren intended to remove her from it.

Iggy looked up at Tevren, her cover blown. The rope were half dissolved in her see through body, half of it hung from out of her mouth. "But I'm hungwy, pwease?" She gave him the puppy eyes.

Tevren takes ahold of the rope and by his aura it sprsng to life, wrapping around his wrist, "No. Bad Slime. Magical relic ropes are not snacks." he says as he grabs the magic box the rope came from with the same hand and commands the rope to start returning home. It makes like an inch worm and starts to crawl its way out of Iggy, around Tevren's wrist, and carefully back into the box. Oddly the bits of it that were desolved inside her reformed out of stardust inside her.

Tevrens free hand would hold Iggy down until the rope was fully reformed and was able to retreat back into its home demension. Then Tevren would close the magic box and lock it, removing Iggy from his rucksack while he made sure the other relics he had collected were still safe and sound. The Black Arrow, Golden Dagger, Magic Box, and seed pouch were all present, but his glass bottle was empty. It had once held almost to its neck full of water, but now it was totally dry.

Tevren digs around and brings out a whole, huge, smoked catfish, "Ok... Since all of the relics in my bag are still here, you can have this to eat. I'd be using you as lantern oil if you had ate any of my other relics." he says with a teasing smirk, offering Iggy the fish.

Quickclaws turned towards the slime, bending his head down to get a better look at it. "Uh, w-what is this, what does it do, and why is it here...?" He asked, stampering.

"Yay, fishy!" Said Iggy and threw herself out of the bag, then towards the fish. It were made quick work of as she gulped it in on go, now it "swam" around in her body, being digested.

The Rakehnae female looked upon the creature that bowed before her. It was a large creature of sorts, with blue scales, resembling the calm waters of the sea, that made up the being's complexion. It seemed that thought proved her point of the colored appearance further, with distinctions that matched with a sea creature. Zulae lowered her bow slightly, as she could hear scurrying steps approach her vicinity.

The Rakehnae glanced over to see a moving skeleton of sorts, with a torch resting in its jaws. It was rather large, nearly similar to the other creature before her, and seemed to resemble a dragon, but without any scales or.. anything.

Zulae gave a quiet thought to herself, before responding to the sea-like creature.

"You may call me Zulae," she said slowly. "That is my name."

Skela looked excitedly at the new creature "hi I'm Skela!!" She said jumping a little bit. Skela always loved meeting new people. Perhaps this one will help them on their adventure?

Raising her head back up before the Rakehnae spoke, Charlotte glanced over when Skela trotted up to them, smiling at the younger dragon's enthusiasm. "I'm Charlotte," she replied to the archer. "We've gathered here to go on an adventure of sorts, exploring this place. Would you like to join us?" She asked.

Tevren listens carefully to the party members that went back to the entrance to greet the archer and heard the soft voice say a name, "Hmm... There's something to remember for later... And to answer your question, Quickclaws... This is a Slime. Traditionally, they're monsters that can be any variety of rank and are rather notorious for trying to kill human adventurers. I've run into some good Slimes in my time as a traveler, but this is actually the first time I've found one in my rucksack. You got a name, little fella?" he explains and asks to the Slime as he closes his rucksack with her out of it and returns it to his back. He'd also shift his spear slightly just to get it comfortable again, resting it diagonally across his back.