"A turn on the dance floor sounds wonderful," Ashlynn said, extending a hand and allowing the reptilian man to lead her away. As they moved, the invisible bubble followed them with people moving quickly to get out of their way as they walked across the great hall toward the dance floor.
"I can tell your aura is powerful," Ashlynn said, resting a hand lightly on the man's well muscled arm. "Do you have a fearsome reputation in the arena for people to avoid you like this? Or is it something else?"
"Eh?" he said, raising a scaled brow ridge in surprise. "I thought you were jus' puttin' up wit' my thorny nature, yet here you stand like it's nothin' at all. How you find dat comfortable, cher?"
"Putting up with it?" Ashlynn asked, genuinely confused by the notion. To her, she felt almost as safe and secure in the presence of the reptilian man as she did when she was with Thane or any of Nyrielle's other progeny.
