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[dragongrrl]

🧙 WHO: Barbara and Hendrik
⚔️️ WHAT: Baby dragons!
🕒 WHEN: June
🗺️ WHERE: Out in the wilderness
⚠️ WARNINGS: None


[It's not that Barbara is a nature girl, but knowing what this island of Avalon is and what lives here is essential to surviving here. That's why she spends a not-insignificant portion of her time exploring the parts of the island that haven't been populated by humans.

And today she has found... dragons.

Little baby dragons, flapping and tumbling in the flowers. At first, Barbara keeps a respectful distance--in her experience, dragons do not like their offspring being andled by anyone without strict permission--but as time passes, it seems that there aren't any parents. Just dragonets, playing in the field.]

Odd...

[Well. She's got some cold meat from something she hunted yesterday. Might as well crouch down and see if the baby dragons like it, right?]

Comments

[standvastig]

[While he doesn't usually spend extended periods of time alone in the forests just beyond Camelot, the rains of past months have had Hendrik studying up on what possible mushrooms he may find on the island. The books he's read mostly warn away from "fairy rings" without going into much detail about how extensive the mushroom varieties may be, but he's not about to put any mushroom he finds in his mouth.

He's not starving, after all.

He stumbles upon the clearing with the field of flowers not too after Barbara settles down to watch, only stepping back once he realizes she intends to feed the creatures. Should he be here? The baby dragons don't seem to have noticed the meat yet, so he keeps his distance while addressing Barbara.]

Offering food?

[dragongrrl]

[Barbara can hear the sound of approaching footsteps, and she's alert in case she needs to tell off whoever is approaching, but she's not displeased to hear Hendrik's voice. He's stopped a little way away too, which is good. The dragonets are still watching Barbara herself warily.]

Yes. [Still not looking away from them, Barbara pulls a piece of rabbit meat into smaller bits and holds one out, which gets the dragonets looking a little closer.] Barbara find.

[standvastig]

[Hendrik watches with quiet interest. Even with the number of monsters in his world, he hasn't seen young dragons up close, and to see someone interacting with them so calmly is far from what would be considered normal in Erdrea. (Or at least in the areas of Erdrea he has visited.)

He crouches to make himself less intrusive, checking to ensure he's secured the lid on the container of mushrooms he had been harvesting. Even so, his voice as he speaks to Barbara earns glances in his direction from the more curious dragonets.]

Find? This is your first time seeing dragons here?

[He rubs his chin, contemplative. His wording made it sound like he had known about the creatures already.]

I did not know any lingered in the forests.

[...That also made it sound like he knew they were around, but he refrains from clarifying again.]

[dragongrrl]

[Barbara may not be an expert in using human language, but she does note the surprise, and the fact that he says first, as though he's surprised that she hasn't found them before now.]

Yes. [She looks up at him, studying his expression and his body language.] Hendrik see before?

[standvastig]

[He tilts his head at question, looking over at the relatively little dragons for a moment before shaking his head in the negative.]

None in this world. And none as small as this in my own world.

[He can only surmise that's because the dragons were smart enough to keep their young far away from human settlements.]

They seem quite innocent.