Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20170625033737/@comment-28358106-20170703235925

(S9/Kioshi/Lilrava) Melandil gives a small smile at Lilrava's eagerness. [Were it only so simple as to be as eager as you! Alas, we knew of the Cadagaunt's ways, and were not so much.]

[Even from a distance, we saw the beast. Its shape was silhouetted against the night sky, its reptilian face lit by the fires that raged around it. The fire blinded our night sight, and so we had to rely on our day vision. We could see it as it stalked across the roof of the burning church, watching us. Even today, I can say that it was the largest I have ever seen in a thousand years, its talons like scythes that ripped up the shingles of the roof as it turned to watch us with its baleful stare.]

[This was a hundred years before Adelaide took control of the Realm, so there were no Gendarmes there to aid us. The townsfolk had mostly fled, save a few brave souls who would not flee, and a small group of roaming Centaurs had joined them. The Centaurs were doing their best, but several had already fallen, and their arrows were glancing off of the Cadagaunt's scales like blades of grass thrown against a stone.]

[Magic is useless against the Cadagaunt, as its scales have strong antiarcanic properties. Wknew we had to attack its soft underbelly, the only spot that the creature can be pierced. We stayed mounted, and began to circle the building, knowing it would have to come down when it collapsed, and when it did, one of us had to be in position to attack it at the right moment.]

Lucida raises her brow. "Did you seriously just use the phrase, 'folly of youth?' What are you, like, thirteen?  That's just a tiny bit pretentious, don't you think?" She pauses, recognizing the teenage angst coming from the girl. She unfolds her arms and sighs.

"Look, you're right about one thing. Nobody is going to make an effort to understand you if you go around assuming that nobody is going to make an effort to understand you.  It's a self-defeating mindset.  You can't just do whatever and then when people react negatively get all pouty and say 'you don't understand me!'  That's stupid and a horrible way to make friends.  That is, assuming you want to make any friends at all.  I swear, you sound just like Aegis."

As she is speaking, she is putting soap and a washcloth into a wooden bucket. She begins sliding through the water towards her when she stops, seeing the look on her face. She holds up the bucket. "Well? You gonna be all sour grapes if I wash you, or what?"