"One lucky guess.." Intalru grumbled before he realized the whole village was staring at him strangely.. "Umm Hello?.." ... He said while looking for any more familiar faces. "Bwahaha! see he's not one for speeches either!" Intalru could hear a slightly husky voice roared with laughter 'Smack' "Don't weasel out of it!"..
The Draconian with a husky voice was shoved forward by a shriveled up old lizard. "Ahem, greetings Intalru I am Uru Elna the chieftain of our tribe, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the envoy of our gods.." Uru stopped shortly to glance above her head.. "Whew.. I mean! We hope that you and your companions enjoy this feast in celebration of your arrival to our ancestral home and our race as a whole has great expectation of your future deeds in the name of dragon kind.
After Uru Elna finished her speech the surrounding draconians cheered and began ushering towards the center of the village where Intalru spied several giant stone disks laid heavily with raw meat...and no fire in sight. Everyone stood to the side to allow Uru Elna to grab the first piece, which she handed to Intalru. After he accepted the 'meal' the draconians slowly made their way around the giant plates like it was a buffet bar.
Just past the giant plates of meat was a large tray of vegetables. Velma was the first one there closely followed by Amanda. "I thought you liked meat?" Velma asked the Myconid. "I do.. I just feel that maybe draconians don't know how to cook it.." Amanda replied before casting her eyes toward Intalru...
"So tell me brother what were the trials like?" Lilan Ka shouted as he ran up to Intalru. "Hmm you wouldn't believe me.. I traveled through an uncountable number of realms, was bitten by a Basilisk before being given a test by Tiamat herself, Then I had to travel back through the realms just to get here!" "Ok.. brother I know I doubted you about the river monster and you proved me wrong but it's hard to believe that you did all this within a few months.." Lilan Ka said while eyeing Intalru strangely.
"Months? that was only the first trial that may have took a couple days.." Intalru said with a grin on his scaly face. "Then I had to go to a tree larger than this village and brave the deep tunnel that stemmed from it's massive roots where I had to learn how to alter reality But I was attacked by a wild woman on a mission causing me to fail it the first time.." Amanda shoved Velma playfully..
"It turns out I helped the wild woman unknowingly in the past and the only reason she interfered was because she thought I was in danger, since then she's become a good friend of mine and I can trust her with my back in a fight.." (And his front at night) Amanda privately said to Velma causing her to steam since she was trying her best not to be violent in front of Intalru's family.
"I managed to pass the test thanks to the Myconid woman next to her, gaining the power to alter reality slightly, afterwards I spent centuries learning about the different poisons of the realms from an ancient being that took to poisoning itself for fun.." Intalru finished speaking and happily soaked in the look of disbelief on Lilan Ka's face.
..."Brother.. I don't know how you.. Your only.. We are only a couple of.. How?" Lilan Ka was led away by Sha Na to sit down and gather his thoughts allowing Intalru some time to contemplate how to eat the meat with out tasting it.. "F*ck it.." Crunch! nom nom..
"Enjoying yourself?" a high-pitched voice asked from behind but when Intalru turned around no one was there.. only after looking at the ground did he notice the grass was pressed down as if someone was standing in front of him. "... You're still under stealth." Intalru replied before a Draconian slowly faded into view. " Hehe.. I kinda forgot, sorry my teacher makes me use it constantly to get better.. nice to meet you again I'm Nil Kul."
"Mhm has Sha Na been giving you any trouble while I was away?" Intalru noticed that Nil Kul was taller than Sha Na and on the slender side compared to the other draconians his age, her scales were also slightly darker than the rest of the tribe.
"Not really unless you count th... Mmph!??" Sha Na managed to sneak up and clamp her hands around Nil Kul's snout effectively silencing her. " You're the only trouble maker from our clutch Intalru.." Sha Na muttered accusingly while giving Nil Kul the stink eye. "Says the storm bringer.." A gravelly voice resounds behind Intalru causing him to turn around and come face to chest with a large heavily scarred crimson red Draconian..
"It was an accident!" Sha Na yelled at Zul Gilga before running off. "What happened exactly?" Intalru asked the big red lizard. "No clue but Zul Sha believes she made a connection to one of the elemental planes.. He still hasn't told her that he knows, the old lizard wants her to come to terms with her powers on her own before he begins teaching her how to channel them."
Velma and Amanda noticed Sha Na running away so the two decided to follow her and rack up some brownie points with Intalru's closest sibling. "Wait for us Sis!" Velma shouted. "What's wrong Sha Na? If someone is picking on you we'll take care of them.." Amanda spoke softly into Sha Na's mind.
After the three of them were alone Sha Na turned to the two of them. "I may be a little different from the others and it scares me.. I saw what happens when Intalru rages and I'm worried something like that might happen to me.." "Different how?" Velma asked while tilting an eyebrow. "You can talk to us we're pretty different from our races too, so we might be able to understand you at least." Amanda chimed in cheerfully.
"Well.. ok so I was meditating when.." Sha Na began describing the events that led up to the massive storm the day before. After she finished the two stood there quietly.. as far as Sha Na knew that is, they were actually holding a conversation between each other using Amanda's telepathy.
(She sounds pretty worried.. you think we should tell her compared to Intalru she's basically normal?) Velma asked Amanda. (Everyone is normal compared to Intalru.. so I don't think that will help much, Maybe we should use our own experiences to help her? or we could just say no matter what we'll be there for her?) Amanda replied. (Hmm I vote option one.. it would help bring us all closer.) (You start.) After a brief deliberation the two began talking to Sha Na about there own lives.
"You know Sha Na being different isn't all that bad.. if I was like other daphnaie we never would have met and I would live most of my life in solitude. Besides I think that you should embrace your differences imagine how much help we could be to Intalru on his journey!" Velma started. "It's true! what would happen if we came across a high classed flame elemental or fire sorcerer the three of us use plant based magic but you.. you would wipe the floor with the poor b@$t@rd!" Amanda chimed in. "Besides at least you're related to your tribe through blood.. I'm basically an orphan and the only person amongst my people who would talk to me was my grandfather that adopted my mother.. I'll bet Intalru would take you in with open arms and beat down anyone that hurt you."
"But what if Intalru is scared of what I can do?" Sha Na asked causing the two to bust out in laughter. "I'm sure I speak for both of us when I say Intalru couldn't care less.. he was so worried about you I was starting to get jealous." Velma said while trying to stifle her laughter. "If you're worried about self control I might be able to help.. let me link the three of us together the next time you meditate and we'll see what happens? worst case me and Velma get kicked from the connection and help you remain in control, who knows we might get branded like you then that would just be something we have in common." Amanda said cheerfully.
While the three women in Intalru's life were talking Intalru decided to hunt down Lilan Ka to ask him a few questions. Just as he was about to catch up to his brother a scaled hand caught his shoulder. "I believe the two of us have much to talk about.." A slender Draconian said. "My name is Yail Sul and I will be teaching you the druidic arts while you are with us.. I hope the green dragon didn't lead you too far astray.."