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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 731026" data-attributes="member: 5137">Breaking Cat, week 2In the history books, Agina's small group's charge down the mountain would largely be forgotten. The battle was brief, and never actually made it to the giants. Still, it was heroic while it lasted.The Amalan arrived. Literally appearing in the sky as if formed from the air itself, he floated down with wings outstretched for an uncharacteristically gentle landing on his hind legs. "I... WOULD SPEAK... WITH YOUR LEADERS." The voice rumbled with power, and rolled across the earth to both camps. As he finished, he delicately set down the kobolds in his hands, eight in total, and folded his majestic wings in silence.Agina's charge pretty much ended there, and she took her soldiers and retreated swiftly.Enter The DragonThe orc chief was the first to approach the dragon. An advantage of the orc command structure is that the true leader is right on the field of battle. The Theralese had to make due with their highest ranking general, Phitios.The war chief was a seven-foot monster of an orc, with a pair of armorcat teeth shaped as knives at his side, and a green-tinted metallic spear slung from his back. One eye was white with cataracts, but he was an otherwise near-perfect specimen of elderly orc. A pair of orc warriors flanked him, and his personal armorcat "pet" padded along behind him, a lazily vicious gleam in its eyes.Phitios, by comparison, was a slightly pudgy man with powerful arms, a shaved head, and solemn, dark eyes that rarely wavered from their goal. He was deadly in board games and politics, and still skilled enough with spear and sword to teach a young soldier a thing or two. He'd just run upmountain out of Theralis, and before striding downmountain to meet the dragon, he looked around him. "I need two soldiers who are not afraid of death to flank me. Who shall I take?" Clustered with the Keraunesti, Athan almost bit his tongue when the other soldiers shuffled and edged him forward. He took the first two offered, and Athan, dressed in a loincloth as all the Keraunesti, attempted to look dignified. He was swiftly dressed in tunic and coat, and he and one other flanked the general as they strode down to the dragon.Amalan was monstrously, overwhelmingly large "in person". Clustered about his foreclaws were the kobolds, and it was here that the two leaders met him. Amalan did not speak directly, but instead allowed the kobolds to communicate to the small humanoids.In orc and in Theralese, the kobolds spoke to both in unison, "The last time a battle lasted this long, the orc tribe damaged the land, damage that will be long in healing. It will not happen again. To ensure that, I will observe directly. My kobolds will accompany each of you. They will watch for me."He then turned his ponderous head to Phitios, "Your people have done well by the compact for two hundred years. I understand that this is roughly ten generations, and that the eldest of that time are now long buried. It says much of you that you have kept the traditions without reminder for so long, and I do not expect that my kobolds will find any fault. You may leave now."Phitios bowed, a brief sign of respect, and replied, "Your memory is long and accurate, great dragon, and we appreciate the boon of your respect. We will not disappoint you, although I would ask permission to remain until all matters are settled here."Something like a chuckle, deep and rumbling, issued from Amalan's throat before the kobold replied, "I have many things to discuss with this new tribe. If there is something in the content of that discussion that is relevant to you, my kobolds will tell you."Phitios bowed again, then, "Of course, great dragon. I will do as you suggest," and left. As he was leaving, he walked as slowly as a dignified stride could justify, and listened hard to the harsh orc words now being bandied. Phitios couldn't speak orc, but he had near-perfect memory, and a deep-seated desire to know what was being said.Athan did the same...</blockquote>

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