totipthescales | (no subject)

[ I HAVE MORE GRACE THAN THAT

they're just walking through alone, though at a certain point they stop, gaze wandering ]

Pardon Our intrusion.

[Good job you found him. There's rustling from the branches of a particularly large tree, a glimmer of pale scales and green hair.]

I wonder if I should.

[ they do notice, but don't particularly keep an eye on him, by no means tracking his movements or tensely on guard ]

We bring no intentions of waging war. Though that is not the only reason for which to turn another away.

Would you be the lord of these lands?

[wraps around the trunk, essentially upside down but with his torso upright.]

I am. What business would you have with the lord of these lands, child?

[ wow pretty DON'T TALK TO THE SNAKELORD ABOUT HOW PRETTY HE IS, TENEO, YOU ARE AN ADULT AND A RULER NOW YOU HAVE MORE DIGNITY THAN THAT ]

We are--... Monarch Teneo Al-Mizar, the representation of the nation of Hodge. We are not a terribly large nation, but you may yet be aware We are not far from here.

[ it's said with a softness, no particular weight or expectation ]

[well if you did it would probably disarm him enough for you to get some reaction other than cold diplomacy, but, you know]

It does me no good to keep track of which humans inhabit the lands outside my forest. What is it Hodge wants, little Monarch?

Our blood and Our people alike are not human alone, Lord.

[ this, too, is said with a softness- but it's not formality, it's pure intent. but they grade it into something more like a story than a correction ]

Yet, in Our travels, We have come to find that this is not common outside Our realm- the coexistence of humans and spirits.

[whoa, hold on, flickering his tongue out to fact check this outrageous claim

do you smell like spirits, Teneo?]

[ literally like half spirit, though it's a mixed half. not that the human half isn't mixed but it's kind of harder to tell that apart. also smells like BEING AROUND OTHER SPIRITS, for example fuckin Raksha, they're around Raksha way too often ]

We cannot fault your surprise, yet Ours in experiencing the segregation in other lands was just as great.

[iiii don't know how to feel about that i will address it later if ever]

You have yet to come to the point.

The people who reside near this forest seem reluctant to travel through it. Is it discouraged?

Discouraged is putting it lightly.

For what reason is that, may We venture to ask?

[NO, RUDE]

[waiting at the edge of the forest til whenever the hell this part of the territory gets checked up on, coiled into the branches of one of the trees there]

[He doesn't have to wait terribly long for Byakuroku to show, huge and pale and powerful.]

Good afternoon.

[goes still, submissive and non-thereatening-- and more than a little impressed. he's not a small snake by himself, but he's still young, more length than bulk. and far away from his own trees.]

Good afternoon. Is this your forest?

Edited 2014-11-07 05:13 (UTC)

[not threatening in his body language, just comfortable, assured in his own strength.]

It is. I don't suppose you're lost?

[.a.]

I am traveling. I would like to request permission to pass through your forest.

Edited 2014-11-07 13:02 (UTC)