Kai made a face and quickly covered his shoulder with his hand. "Errrr, what about my shoulder?"
Karla made an annoyed face and huffed. "Its obvious you injured it." She walked over to him and examined it closer. Kai tried to step away but she persisted. "What did you even do?"
Kai held his hands up in a 'I dont mean any harm position'
"I was admiring a fruit I bought when I tripped and my shoulder hit a hard wood post." He paused, trying to think of something to add to the lie, but this only made it worse for him while Karla became more skeptical than she already was.
"So you ripped your cloak hitting your shoulder on a wooden pole?" She asked and pointed at him. "And keep in mind, I know that was no ordinary fabric."
"Yes, thats right." He said slowly. He knew the ruse was inevitably going to fail.
Karla raised an eyebrow.
Kai flailed his hands in the air knowing it was pointless. "Okay fine! I got attack by a weird animal in the forest."
"And it did that? Wait, what about Narcen!?"
"He ran to safety, and yes the animal was a nasty one," Kai replied.
Karla looked confused. "So why were you in the forest when you were all excited about the market place?"
Kai responded, telling her the truth and all. He told her about the whole ordeal and his mostly-near-death-experience.
"That's just insane." Karla stated. She set her hand on Kai's arm and said somewhat angrily, "please don't ever do that again. You are the only one I can really trust."
Kai scratched his head and made a tsk sound. Seeing her interact so comfortably with the lizardman made her seem like she was happy. Maybe she wasn't so much. Maybe the only thing keeping her from being killed by a lizardman was Kai himself now that he thought of it. He felt silly for not thinking sooner. Karla must be terrified out of her mind especially because Kai was gone.
He felt bad, because he was actually planning on leaving the lizardman village soon to explore more of the world and find the 5 other "Primordial Magic Users" that the strange entity told him about. He didn't think she would be able to travel with her due to her limited ability. She would just be a burden to him. He wasn't going to tell her yet though. He still needed to protect the village against one of the neighboring tribe's forecoming attack. He also needed to help repair their dying protective barrier, which has somewhere around 3 months before it collapses.
Kai rested his hand behind his neck. "It's not like I'm going to die to some animal. I'm not weak like I used to be."
"Yeah, but still!" She protested.
The last thing he wanted was a child to get attached to him. He had enough problems. So he just decided to walk away and find Narcen.
He first decided to walk around some public spaces. But to avail. He asked some of the locals around, but still no luck.
Where the hell is this dumb lizard?
He went around the village for around half an hour without ever seeing Narcen.
However he encountered the lizardman who showed him the agriculture part of the village a few days earlier. He recognized the distinct yellow markings on him.
Kai went up to him and waved. "Hey wassup!"
The lizardman quickly turned to face him. He froze up a bit and the claws on his feet dug in the dirt.
"Hey, no need to be so tense."
"Yeah, sorry about that sir. I just have somewhere to be."
"That's totally fine, but do you know who Narcen is?"
The lizardman put his hand on his chin. Kai noticed how sharp the claws on there hand were. Almost like they had little daggers on their hand.
"Yeah I think I saw him on his way to the baths to clean himself off. I've known him for a while, he seems awfully quiet today. Now I got to go."
The lizardman treaded off. He looked stressed himself too. Kai wondered what was wrong, but he didn't think too deeply.
He looked up at the sky. The sun was starting to set. He needed to find Narcen quickly. However he had a problem. He didn't know where the baths were. And frankly, he didn't want to go anywhere near there for reasons anybody could understand. He just had to hope he could find Narcen exiting the area.
He decided to ask where the baths were. He eventually got to the area and sat in the vicinity hoping to find Narcen.
Kai was obviously getting strange looks just sitting there but he put up with it. He realized how dirty he was and that he would probably have to use that bath if he wanted to stay clean.
That's going to suck. Maybe I just find a private pond or something in the fores-
He stopped his thought. Kai spotted Narcen walking along a gravel road in the distance about 140 meters away. He got up and walked quickly to catch up to him. All the lizardfolk moved out of his way.