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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 4068454" data-attributes="member: 508">In the next morning, the gray render was still there, and the cattle too.[16]  Lizzie went to check on the gray render and she said it was still asleep, except I don't know how she knew that because its eyes would be open whether it was awake or asleep.  I guess it was probably snoring still and that's how she knew.  She said it seemed to be breathing much better now and it wasn't bleeding in its mouth any more, but she was worried about its leg.  She said she was gonna try to heal its leg by saying one of her spells on it like she did the day before.  I told her to be careful again and she said, "Oh Vrak, you're such a worrier, don't worry, everything's gonna be all right."We were talking real quiet so we wouldn't wake up the gray render, except we must have anyway because suddenly it raised its head and made a grunt noise in its throat.  It struggled to get up but it was having a hard time getting up because of its broken leg.  It started dragging itself along the ground by its arms.  Lizzie started talking to it, saying, "It's okay, girl, we're not gonna hurt you, it's okay," and stuff like that so it wouldn't be scared.  I thought that was kind of funny because why would a big monster like that be ascared of us when we were so much littler than it was?  But the gray render turned its head to Lizzie when she started talking to it like it understood what she was saying.[17]Lizzie kept talking to the gray render and walked around it and got close enough to put her hand on its broken leg.  As soon as she touched it, though, the gray render pushed Lizzie away real hard, and she fell back and hit her head on a rock.  The gray render growled and tried to get to Lizzie by crawling, and I pulled out my axe and went to stop the monster from getting to Lizzie, but she said, "No, leave it alone, Vrak, I'm okay, it's not her fault, she's just scared."  So I left the gray render alone and helped Lizzie get back up to her feet.  She said we'd better just leave it alone for awhile and let it get used to us before we tried healing its leg again.  I thought that was pretty dumb of the gray render, to attack Lizzie when she was only trying to help it get its leg better.  But Lizzie said, "Remember, Vrak, even though it's almost as big as a hill giant, it's only as smart as an animal."So we backed away, and it stopped trying to crawl after us.  It was howling in pain, though, and Lizzie kept wanting to help it but it wouldn't let her close enough to help with her spells.  That monster was even dumber than I am sometimes.Finally, though, it stopped howling and was real still, and Lizzie said, "I think it's gone back to sleep, or maybe passed out, I'm gonna see about its leg now."  I said I'd come with her, but she said, "No, Vrak, why don't you stay here so we don't wake it up again this time?"  I didn't want to let Lizzie go to the monster all by herself, but she was right about me maybe waking it up, because I could never be as quiet as she could.  She always said, "Vrak, you're as quiet as a herd of elephants," except I don't know what an elephant is, she never said what one was and I never asked her, but I'll bet they're real noisy.  And anyway, I could tell from how still the gray render was that it was probably asleep, even though you couldn't tell from its eyes.  So I let her talk me into it, and I never should have, and it's all my fault she's dead.</blockquote>

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