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<blockquote data-quote="reddist" data-source="post: 2967939" data-attributes="member: 5212"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">About halfway through my watch my companions are snoring restfully and I’m having trouble keeping my attention focused on my job. My eyelids are heavy and I blink away sleep, scrunching my face up and trying to work out the droopiness. I force my attention out into the darkness, trying to feel what might be moving around… toads, water bugs, vermin… I sense a toad coming up out of the water… a rat chewing on a bug near the water… the toad focusing on the rat… focusing, then… targeting… lighting fast, the toad lashes out at the rat, spearing it with a sticky tongue and reeling it in… no sooner that I feel this out there in the shadows, I pick out the flapping of wings… not bats…something… bigger.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Sweet and Gracious Tymora, this not-bat is huge. The toad never stands a chance…. It sits, munching on its rat, when a dragon swoops in through the cool night air, claws extended, flexing, to snatch at the toad and lift it off…. the size of horse! I slide down the side of the column on my haunches, bow and arrow forgotten. It does not see me, does not hear me, does not smell me. Tymora be praised the toad stopped to finish its meal in a patch of moonlight.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">The toad is lifted off and carried away without making a noise… the flapping continues over head and to the south, deeper into the forest. For a while all I can hear is the pounding of my heart and the gasping of my breath. As I regain control of myself I snatch up my bow and pull an arrow back, leaping to my feet frantically looking for something, anything, lurking in the darkness… but the coming of the dragon has silenced this portion of the forest. I loosen the bow as the crickets start up again, and normalcy returns to the night sounds.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">My companions, all of them, continue to snore, blissfully ignorant of the death they were moments from. Had Balderk snored or Theros mumbled in his sleep, the beast no doubt would have noticed us. Cyridon sleeps like… well… like the dead.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Over the next couple hours of my watch I regain my composure. I toe Theros awake and let him know that “here there be Dragons,” but I’m not sure if he takes me seriously. Its hard to believe myself now, only hours after I saw it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">I sleep restlessly, and awake as the sun pierces through the gloom of the forest.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reddist, post: 2967939, member: 5212"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Century Gothic]About halfway through my watch my companions are snoring restfully and I’m having trouble keeping my attention focused on my job. My eyelids are heavy and I blink away sleep, scrunching my face up and trying to work out the droopiness. I force my attention out into the darkness, trying to feel what might be moving around… toads, water bugs, vermin… I sense a toad coming up out of the water… a rat chewing on a bug near the water… the toad focusing on the rat… focusing, then… targeting… lighting fast, the toad lashes out at the rat, spearing it with a sticky tongue and reeling it in… no sooner that I feel this out there in the shadows, I pick out the flapping of wings… not bats…something… bigger. Sweet and Gracious Tymora, this not-bat is huge. The toad never stands a chance…. It sits, munching on its rat, when a dragon swoops in through the cool night air, claws extended, flexing, to snatch at the toad and lift it off…. the size of horse! I slide down the side of the column on my haunches, bow and arrow forgotten. It does not see me, does not hear me, does not smell me. Tymora be praised the toad stopped to finish its meal in a patch of moonlight. The toad is lifted off and carried away without making a noise… the flapping continues over head and to the south, deeper into the forest. For a while all I can hear is the pounding of my heart and the gasping of my breath. As I regain control of myself I snatch up my bow and pull an arrow back, leaping to my feet frantically looking for something, anything, lurking in the darkness… but the coming of the dragon has silenced this portion of the forest. I loosen the bow as the crickets start up again, and normalcy returns to the night sounds. My companions, all of them, continue to snore, blissfully ignorant of the death they were moments from. Had Balderk snored or Theros mumbled in his sleep, the beast no doubt would have noticed us. Cyridon sleeps like… well… like the dead. Over the next couple hours of my watch I regain my composure. I toe Theros awake and let him know that “here there be Dragons,” but I’m not sure if he takes me seriously. Its hard to believe myself now, only hours after I saw it. I sleep restlessly, and awake as the sun pierces through the gloom of the forest.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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