Chapter 6 - Armor!

As Urraina was sleeping, the large pieces of flesh on her back started to grow sharper and thinner, with bones developing inside and a proper wing structure akin to a bat's was created but much scalier and durable, while the crystal on her tail grew smaller as well.

{Few hours later...}

"Mmph, *yawn* that was a good nap." She stretches her body to ready it for a long time of exploring. "Hope I actually get somewhere this time, but with my sense of direction let's just hope I actually get to some tracks that lead to the village place." Urraina starts walking on her hind legs instinctively as her body starts to evolve, appropriately about 3-4 feet in height. Then, she starts walking to the area with the strongest scent of smoke and ash.

She eventually stumbled on a abandoned campsite, with bones and burned wood in a pile. "Just great", said Urraina, "Better than nothing I suppose... should I get clothes, I wonder? Since I'm now looking like a kid, hatchling, whatever they call small spawn ere'." She looked around the nearby forest to find an animal with fur or an insect with a large carapace. "Armor, clothes, both're important if I don't wanna get cut easily." Urraina ended up finding a large beetle with a dark green carapace. As she slinked down into the bushes, she bared her teeth and readied her claws with her crystal ended tail raised like a scorpion's. Urraina got within a 4-feet distance to the beetle and pounced, maw open and claws in grabbing position. She bit down on the beetle's head, thinking

"This kinda tastes like raw shrimp but more gooey somehow. Probably an arthropod thing." Her claws grabbed tightly on the beetle's wing plates, with her tail attempting to stab at it's underside. The fins being unusually sharp and the crystal being very hard naturally, it managed to make a gash in the beetle's underside while the crystal was busy getting bigger as it drained the beetle of its bodily fluids and Urraina eating its limbs and head, resulting in the beetle's obvious death. The carapace was pried off and put on what Urraina calls her "genis" and her female's pocket. Looking at her tail, she says, "Huh, didn't know this thing was prehensile. Also... I wonder how many species of argonian are out there? I mean, I'm flat faced with fish fins and a crystal on my tail, that other guy looked like he had a long snout with no edges on it and very smooth scales AND horse ears. Maybe they can be like, a Quetzalcoatl (bird-winged giant snake)? Or maybe a mess of limbs! Haha! That woulda been funny." As Urraina talked to herself, somelizard was attracted to the noise...

And now world tree small talk!

{hello Yerbanora, I have a favor to ask.} |*sigh* what is it?| {Can you send one of your residents to guide one of my select reincarnators please?} | Maybe? What are you willing to give?|. { Would three bags of high-grade fertilizer (tree food) interest you?} |... fine, I'll send one of my apprentice hunters there.| {The one that met her before?} |Yes, now give me my fertilizer and go away!| {I'm going, I'm going, no need to get nasty about it.}