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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gray Shade" data-source="post: 2612207" data-attributes="member: 32340">Ulruss and Penny eagerly let Lars take a mug from each of them.  They then continue to watch him as he backs away, but are distracted by Haakon.  They gasp a bit at the mention of Lars' wounds, but forget him for the moment when his shyness forces him to back up to the far side of the dragon.  Ulruss watches the scene for a moment, then drinks the other ale herself and says to Haakon, "You will be able to sing quite a story of this adventure! Now that the spirit is vanquished, Hazel is again safe.  There will be much celebrating!"Meanwhile Penny, unable to keep from smiling at Dentmus' antics, gives him a broad, toothy grin and her other ale.Both Dentmus and The Padre aren't sure about one of the dragon's wings, obviously broken in well over a dozen places and shredded and bloody between the bones, but overall, the creature will live.Haakon can feel its hot breath on his hands and thighs and feel the muscles in its thick, ropy neck.  Unable to resist, he touches its face, which is smoother than he expected, the scales of the dragon are still soft in its young age.  Its beard is thin but long, matted in spittle and dirt.  Haakon, Dentmus, The Padre, and Kah can tell that some scales seem to be scraped off of the dragon, and it's mottled with dirt that is thick with grit and bits of stone.The Padre, too, can't help but examine the dragon closer and gets a good sense of its beauty, even through all its cuts and bruises.  He sees that Lars knocked a couple of its teeth out when he smacked it the first time (the teeth are lying on the ground nearby, wrapped in a length of vine that's not so active as it was just a moment before).  With an incantation, The Padre heals the dragon.  Its wounds close enough to stop bleeding, and its muscles flex as it slowly begins to regain consciousness.Several miners come up with chains and ropes, but when they see what's happened, they somberly back away, dropping the instruments.  Several other miners, however, pay no heed to the dragon and move to collect their friends from inside the cave.These miners move up next to Mist, five of them total.  They carry axes and shields, ready for combat now and spread out, following on Mist's flanks.  They are quiet and sober.  At about 40 feet in, the sunlight is just a blurry disk of light, while in the other direction, torches every 30 feet along the wall make the path lit but shadowy and dark.  The mine continues forward, forking off in several places.  Mist takes her time, concentrating and looking about, but she sees no signs of trouble, and detects only that the spirit they just fought has, indeed, come this way, but is not here now.  It seems to have continued down the main passage.*     *     *Krug: It's up to you whether you use your *choke* wand.  The creature will live and is beginning to stir from The Padre's spell, so it doesn't REQUIRE any more healing, but like I said, it's up to you.</blockquote>

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