User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20180124030225/@comment-28358106-20180224043910

"Again, you do not understand.  This is not to satisfy you, boy!  C'thah, rh-daar kun dah.  You are all East, all North.  No West, no South.  You may grow them, yet, but I wonder how, for it is not for a young and tender girl to shape a man.  If you have never been challenged, I can see how you would not understand these words."

It's apparent that Tirush isn't going to wallop him, but she looks on him now with a cross between pity and derision. "Such an age, and so much to have learned, and yet, what would you know of manhood?  Tell me this, then, boy..."

She climbs down off of the balustrade, like a great cat prowling, and stands next to Thomas.

"What will you do, if we say no?"

Marcus seems to have found the sweet spot when he gets to Typhon's side, because the beast srops struggling and begins to kick a little. Groaning, he slowly begins to roll over, his tongue lolling, when Partha takes advantage.

With a leap, she leaps straight onto Typhon's belly and clamps down, growling. Typhon gives a yelp of surprise, trying to leap up, but with Partha and Marcus both on him, he spreads his massive wings and begins to try and flap, yawping in alarm and buffetting the hell out of Marcus.

Still, despite the bucking, Partha doesn't look like she's going to let go, and Typhon looks as if he's rapidly becoming alarmed.