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[2oldforthisspit]

Nhim had been minding her own business, flying along at a sedate pace across the countryside, and preparing to land on a large outcropping of rock. (Given her bad leg, this was tricker than one might've supposed.) Instead of feeling her back claws grip rough stone, however, she saw a flash of light-and found herself scrabbling for purchase against

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[misterbunny]

"Yeah, there's no fiskin' sacrifices. Or big titted broads in flimsy nighties. God damn you Harlequin romance novels, you lied to me!" The voice comes from a little critter, who tends to get around. Seated in the shadow of one of the cars is what looks like a bunny, smells like a bunny, and even acts like a bunny.

But he talks like a sailor.

[2oldforthisspit]

Nhim pauses and blinks at the voice, looking around for a moment before finally spotting...the bunny.

It's a small, cute animal that talks. Clearly, it must be some hero's key-filching, comic relief pet!

"Hello," she says, lowering her head closer to ground level. "I don't suppose you've any idea what just happened."

[misterbunny]

Comic relief? Comic relief?

...

Okay, yah, he probably is.

"You knocked over a car." The Bunny turns his head from her, to gnaw on his rear foot. "Pretty bitchin."

[2oldforthisspit]

"Is that what that is? I've never seen one before; I assumed it was some sort of strange rock."

The dragon's fins flattened as she looked around, again. "My main concern, though, is how I got here. Have any wizards been experimenting lately?"

[misterbunny]

"Do they ever stop?" The great thing about being able to adjust your own voice modulation and facial features is you can lie with the best of them. "Man, them wizards just keep throwing spells, hither and yon, and it all just goes kaflooey."

The Rabbit turns his gaze upon the dragon again, beady red eyes gleaming. "Don't suppose you were created by Disney, were ya?" Hey, don't laugh, they're the ones who created dragons in his world.

[2oldforthisspit]

"So it seems," Nhim says with a sigh, settling herself down so she doesn't have to crane her neck quite as much. "It must have been some sort of teleportation spell; nothing else is capable of such things, but as for why..." She shakes her head. "There must be a reason." There was always a reason! PlotThe universe demanded it!

She blinks, tilting her head as she peers at The Rabbit. "Diz-nee?" she said, sounding it out. "No, my sire and dam were Gaethtas the Golden and Icha the Off-White."

Dragons, man. They like their titles, silly as they sound.

[misterbunny]

"Wjhich makes you, what, the goldenwhite?" He nibbles on his paw some more, thinking. "Why? To see who survives, of course."

[2oldforthisspit]

"The Brown." Okay, so she's actually more brown and cream-going-grey, but that's a bit of a mouthful, even as dragon titles go. She blinks, jerking her head up at the latter comment and pricking her ears forward. "What?"

[misterbunny]

"Well, why else toss in regular folk with a whole bunch of monsters and evil creatures?" The Bunny shrugs. "It's gotta be a survival thing."

[2oldforthisspit]

Nhim tilts his head to the side, blinking as she peers at The Rabbit. "That isn't the fault of wizards though, generally. It's just how things are. Besides, it's generally the normal humans who become heroes, anyway. That's how it goes."

[misterbunny]

The rabbit laughs at this. "Nah, it's just the humans who end up bothering to write anything down. And in this world, I ain't so sure there's such a thing as a normal human."

[2oldforthisspit]

"Of course there is," Nhim says, blinking again. "They're quite common in most places."

[misterbunny]

"Not around here. Most of the folk who get pulled in seem, ah, different, y'know whad ah mean?" He scratches at one long ear, then turns red eyes up at the dragon. "You a human lover?"

[2oldforthisspit]

"No, I wouldn't," she says, shaking her head. "I've no idea where I am or why, aside from the guess that a wizard did it." Her shoulders rise and fall briefly in the best shrug she can-shrugging when you're quadrupedal isn't always the easiest thing in the world. "I have liked many well enough, been deep friends with several, and am willing to work with them when times call for it."

She shrugs again, grunting a bit at the strain against the stiff joints. "I doubt 'lover' would fit, but I'm not indifferent to them."

[misterbunny]

"But it's the Human what keeps us intelligent other creatures down! They always take the starring role, and relegate us to monsters or..." The Bunny shivers. "Comic sidekicks."

[2oldforthisspit]

"It's not always the humans," she says, sounding unperturbed. "Occasionally it's elves. Or half elves who don't know much about their true heritage and only find out through a voyage of discovery, in which they also save the world, find their true love, etcetera, etcetera."

Nhim pauses. "Or occasionally some sort of halfing, but that hasn't happened since..." She tilts her head to the side, thinking. "Oh, about two hundred years ago."