SWAMP PEOPLE

[derrgun]

Well, if you ever go back into Wooley Swamp, well, you better not go at night
There's things out there in the middle of them woods
That'd make a strong man die from fright

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[derrgun]

Again, the dragon had to think about it. If Krem hadn't suggested it, he wouldn't have even considered it.

"I want..." His coils bobbed slightly as though to suggest a shrug. "I like to look at you."

That probably didn't come out right. He tried again.

"I want to know more."

[smoothkreminal]

That definitely hadn't come out right. For minute, the absolute disgust on his face was so incredibly clear. He had gotten up, was just about to start trying to get out of the swamp, or die trying when he stopped at the next bit.

"If you...nix that first part, what is it you want to know? I'm not some fountain of knowledge. I don't even know what I could teach you..." He's practically a peasant. If his father wasn't so well known for his skill, he wouldn't have lived so long without coming to the fate he had now. But even with his fathers talents he'd never been formally educated. He knew survival tips. How to sew, things he picked up growing up in the town, but had no one really to teach him except his parents.

[derrgun]

"I have so many questions...I used to know the answers but it was a long time ago. I was sick. I forgot. About people. How people are."

Derrgun was just a big weeb for humans.

He finally crawled out of the water, laying his long tail across it so that it led to another little cluster of mossy islands that were not full of junk and skeletons, should Krem brave the living bridge.

"They don't like you. They don't like me. They won't come here."

[smoothkreminal]

Krem stared hard at him as he talked. He's still unsure, he doesn't necessarily want to give in, but the idea that he could be alone without being forcibly alone, all by himself...that it was his choice. They won't come here. He closed his eyes, breathed and moved forward.

"Don't get angry with me if I can't teach you what you'd like to know. Everyone i've known aside from my father thought I was...off." He doesn't want to say sick any more. Doesn't want to say crazy. He wants to forget those words. "but...I suppose I can help you, if you'll help me."

He steps cautiously onto his tail, moving across the water slowly before he gets to the other side, glaring at the dress he can see still slightly sticking up from the water. It was stuck on something or else it would have sank to the bottom. Damned thing.

[derrgun]

"Why be angry? If you can't do something, you can't do something."

He closed his eyes and unfurled the pathetically tiny wings that sprouted from his back and gave them a few flaps.

"I will devour anyone who sets foot in this swamp." He nodded smartly because that was TOTALLY the help Krem was talking about.

[smoothkreminal]

Being angry was one of the only coping mechanisms Krem had at his disposal currently. He couldn't think of why not to be angry. "Why wouldn't you be angry...If I can't hold up my end of the bargain, what good am I?" He sounds bitter, like he's had to say that before.

Though, he watches those little wings unfurl, trying to find some sort of calm. It's derailed though when Derrgun claims he'll eat anyone who approaches. "That...I'm not asking for that, really. As much as I'd love to beat the whole town to the ground, I...I'm not like them. and I don't want to be." He swallows, hard. "Scaring them away would be enough."