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Date/Time: Sunday, July 10th, all day
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[catoutofwater]

So she was a dragon. And here he was treating her like a young kit when she'd probably been around for centuries... ah, but she was clearly still young in dragon terms, so maybe it was all right? Fish wondered why he hadn't been able to tell for sure what she was, though. He felt like he should be reasonably familiar with dragons... maybe he'd just never met one this young? Or maybe Darkling was a type of dragon that he'd never seen - there were different types, right? These were questions he was fairly sure he should have the answers to, but thinking about them just made his head hurt.

He supposed it probably didn't matter much at this exact moment, anyway. Once this spell or whatever it was wore off and his memory came back, he was confident that things would make a lot more sense.

"I don't think there's anyone out there right now," he said reassuringly. "It's a faint scent, like someone passed by this way not long ago. If we follow it, though, it should lead us somewhere." He hoped. Fish smiled down at Darkling once again; she must not be comfortable in crowds. "You're right, I don't know how many people we'll end up finding. But I won't lose you, I promise." With that, he continued forward, still holding her hand.

Sure enough, the forest gave way to a path, and glancing down it, Fish could see structures in the distance. They didn't look like typical village homes, or a fortress or anything along those lines, but where there were buildings of any sort there were probably people. And beyond the buildings... towered a positively enormous tree. Fish tilted his head back, gaping up at it, and up higher, and higher...

"Wow," he breathed. "That's even taller than..." He paused as, once again, his mind failed to supply him with information he felt should be there. "...Than something I can't remember," he finished, chagrined.

[dragon50times]

"...All right." Darkling didn't have much choice but to trust Fish's instincts. And for that matter, her own. Despite her uneasiness, she still couldn't sense anything evil or dark about this place. She just felt afraid of--of people. Not Fish or maybe not even a different stranger, but people.

She did trust Fish, though. And if something bad did happen, some trouble... she was a dragon. She had fought in the darkness; she wouldn't lose Fish and--

--and--

When she saw the tree, her jaw dropped. Enormous didn't even begin to describe it. "I... I'm sure I've never seen anything that huge," she said. "Or are we just that small?"

[catoutofwater]

Fish thought about Darkling's question for a minute, brows furrowing and tail twitching as he continued to stare in awe, but soon shook his head slowly. "I don't think we're small... I mean, the rest of these trees look pretty normal-sized to me. It's just that one that's... well, huge." It must be special somehow, he concluded. Important... maybe magic. He found himself eager to get a closer look.

And, as luck would have it... "The scent leads in that direction." He looked back down at Darkling, smiling encouragingly. "What do you say we find our way out of this storm and into some shelter?" His grin grew wider and more amused. "I must look like a drowned cat by now, you know?"

Never mind that it was a pretty lousy pun... if it helped keep their spirits up and took Darkling's mind off of her uneasiness for a moment, Fish really didn't care in the least - he'd gladly make more of them.