[And something shivers through him, something he does not like, as he senses the reinforcement of the temptation. It's the feeling of having done something unexpectedly clever, like a monkey might feel with its trainer. He's done murder for less, in the past; he backs the feeling right off, into another of those convenient boxes.]
A dragon. [It's not that he's never seen anything that resembles a dragon... just not in the real world. And this place appears to qualify.]
Where did you hear that? It strikes me that, as newcomers, we might hear a number of remarkable—[and untrue]—things. [What's he going to do, faced with a dragon? In the Metaverse he'd kill it; likely wouldn't blink. Out here he's going to get eaten, if he doesn't heal fast enough to outrun everyone else.
Again, he looks Sephiroth briefly in the eye, listening, and he notices the slitted pupils. Dragon eyes.]
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A dragon. [It's not that he's never seen anything that resembles a dragon... just not in the real world. And this place appears to qualify.]
Where did you hear that? It strikes me that, as newcomers, we might hear a number of remarkable—[and untrue]—things. [What's he going to do, faced with a dragon? In the Metaverse he'd kill it; likely wouldn't blink. Out here he's going to get eaten, if he doesn't heal fast enough to outrun everyone else.
Again, he looks Sephiroth briefly in the eye, listening, and he notices the slitted pupils. Dragon eyes.]