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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 4068452" data-attributes="member: 508">We first met up with the gray render in the plains.[1]  There was Lizzie and me and a bunch of human fighters we met on the road, and they said, "Do you want to travel with us?" and Lizzie said "Yes."  I think they were on their way to a different city but Lizzie and I were just traveling out in the field like she does a lot.  I mean like she used to do when she was alive.  She was what she called a naturalist and always wrote about animals in her journal books and sometimes drew pictures of them too.  Lizzie could draw real good pictures of animals and make them look real like they were alive.  She drew bunnies a lot.  I think she really liked bunnies.The gray render was in a herd of cattle.[2]  It was leading them across a meadow over to a stream where they could drink and they were following it.  Lizzie was the first to see it and she said, "Look, Vrak, what's that?" and I said I didn't know.  She was usually the first one to see things like that because she was real smart.  Then she wanted to go over to it and I said, "Be careful, it might be dangerous," and she said "Don't worry, my god will protect us, and anyway, we have these fighters to help protect us, too."  So we went over by the gray render but it roared at us real loud and chased us away[3] and Lizzie said, "Back off, everybody, give it room."  So we backed away from it and it finally ignored us again and went back by the cattle at the stream.  It walked around the whole herd over and over a couple of times and the cows went back to eating their grass and drinking from the stream and then the gray render drank from the stream too.  And sometimes it would look over at us but it didn't chase us again because we weren't close to its cattle then.Lizzie got one of her journal books out and started drawing a picture of the gray render.  I wish I still had it because it was a good picture but I don't because it got all ripped up.While she was drawing, the fighters were getting bored.  They wanted to get going again and didn't want to wait around while Lizzie drew pictures.  She said, "That's okay, you guys go on ahead, Vrak and I will be just fine," but the leader of the fighters said they'd wait.Then the wyvern attacked.  I don't know where it came from because I was watching Lizzie draw in her book, but all of a sudden there was this roar that was different from the gray render's roar and I looked up and saw that there was a wyvern flying down from the sky there.  Lizzie said later that it was a good thing that the wyvern wasn't bigger than it was, but it was big enough to carry off a cow in its claws anyway because that's what it tried to do.  Only the gray render didn't want the wyvern to do that and it attacked him.[4]  Before the wyvern could grab a cow the gray render was already there and they started fighting and roaring a lot.  The fighters all ran away and so did the cows and I was worried about Lizzie so I stood in front of her with my axe ready but she said, "Get out of the way, Vrak, I want to see this!"  Lizzie was always like that.  I can't remember her ever being scared, not once ever.The fight didn't last very long.  The gray render ripped into the side of the wyvern with its claws and bit his neck[5] and the wyvern roared in pain and tried to bite the gray render back and stab it with his pointy tail to make it let go, except it wouldn't, so finally the wyvern picked up the gray render instead of a cow and tried flying away with it.  Lizzie said the wyvern was probably trying to fly up way high and drop the gray render to kill it, only the gray render didn't let the wyvern fly too high, it kept ripping and clawing at the wyvern and even started ripping the wyvern's wing and the wyvern was having trouble flying straight and I guess it finally just gave up and dropped the gray render and it fell to the ground with a thud and then the wyvern flew away without even getting a cow.  Lizzie said it was flying away to lick its wounds only I didn't even see its tongue move but she was probably right.Then Lizzie started running over to the gray render but I grabbed her arm and said, "No, Lizzie, don't get too close to it, wounded animals are dangerous," but she said "Let me go, Vrak, it might need my help," so I let her go but I went with her and we both got a close look at the gray render.</blockquote>

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