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"Well then..." She's still trying to. Process some of that, as she watches Queenie sit down. "I'm.. flattered I got a point. Oh! What am I doing here? I suppose... I'm just taking some time to clear my head and find myself." Atreis answers, a little bit cryptic and wiatful alike. "Uhhh. For now, just taking a rest." She then answers next, realizing she'd almost get lost in thought, and missed parts of Queenie's questioning. "If I were to build a lair, it woouldn't be *here*, silly. And that depends on the kind of dragon." She adds. As the dragoness says this, she's eyeing the different parts of the horizon on the side, checking the weather. "Is it fine, if I stay somewhere nearby for the night? In case the weather goes... moody." The dragon asks.

“Did…. Did you just assume I’m a social shut in? Who climbed a tree this tall?” She asked pointing. “Or do you assume the average human canines tooth is just long enough to pierce their lower lip? I’ll forgive the age bit. I do look absolutely flawless. But I mean, did you at least assume I was *weird*? Tell me that at least that happened?”

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"Uhhh-" Atreis is doing her best not to brain-fart at Queenie's... "accusations"-errr, rambling. "No! I didn't. In fact, I was assuming quite the opposite, from you being a 'shut-in'..." She replies. "I hadn't noticed at first, mind you." The dragon them adds, trying not to laugh. Right, yes. She should've figured those fangs meant Queenie is a vampire. "Yes you do. and... I did assume you are weird, yes." SHe answers with an awkward giggle. Was she proud in being wacky? She was confused all over again.

“Did…. Did you just assume I’m a social shut in? Who climbed a tree this tall?” She asked pointing. “Or do you assume the average human canines tooth is just long enough to pierce their lower lip? I’ll forgive the age bit. I do look absolutely flawless. But I mean, did you at least assume I was *weird*? Tell me that at least that happened?”

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She finds it even harder to not laugh or smile, when this big lady just started talking with her mouthful. "Uhhh, hi!" Atreis says, trying to parse out what this lady is saying. No matter how adorkable it was. "Chi...wasa? My name is Atweis-I mean, Atreis!" Oh no, it's a little infectious... She shakes her head to clear her thoughts, as she adds, "I think you have something in your mouth."

Chiasa perked up, tree trunk still between her maws, before her tail started wagging behind her.

"Hwiya! whelrkwome!" She didn't seem to realize that she was stalking with her mouth full.

"I'mw chwiwasa!"

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"Huhhh… Oh, second guess is right." Atreis says, seeming to be putting the pieces together. "A thousand? I'm not even two hundred yet. Erm, not that it matters." She gets embarrassed at realizing she said that last part out loud. But tries to shrug it off. "Right, all of that usual... vampiric qualities." She muses, guessing she should've figured it already.

“Well…. Sometimes giant. Sometimes small. Always chaotic.” She said. “It’s complicated, also yes, you can fly and are sitting on a tree branch. While not strictly a bird you are bird like in relevant qualities. Mainly the flight.” She said before she took a moment and poked her, gently.

“You don’t squeak. I…. I don’t know what I expected there.” Queenie looking at her hand disappointed. “Kinda used the the squeak now.” There was a moment. “Oh god, sorry? I’ve been very rude. I’m queenie. This is my kingdom, uh…. That way.” She turned and pointed to the small town by the lake nearby. “S’not much and it’s actually ruled by a parliament, but I set it up centuries ago so, it’s mine!” And there’s the first hint.

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"Pffft, just 'fried dough rings'..? Well, thanks, but as I said, that gnomish baker was the one who taught me that word." He replies back with a similar chuckle, scratching the feathers on his head bashfully. Then, he grins goofily as he replies to her next question with, "Ohhh, that! I like mine sweet with a pinch of savory. If that makes any sense..?" Oh no, just he getting that dough out makes him hungrier...

"A dough...nut? I'm afraid I don't know what that is, ser. Is that a dish that's more popular in your home region?"

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"Ohhh! That's what that gnome baker I met called them. Strenage fellow with a stranger accent. But I guess they're called something different here..?" Oh boy... The harpy says first, forgetting that this name is probably unfamiliar to others. "They're those... baked rolls of dough, in the shape of a ring..?" He tries describing, making a rough shape with his hands. "Usually considered a pastry or a dessert."

"A dough...nut? I'm afraid I don't know what that is, ser. Is that a dish that's more popular in your home region?"

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"Well, so far I can tell that much." The dragon teasingly replies first, smiling even more. "You are definitely complicated." Then she snorts in more amusement at this lady's uhhh, unique reasoning. "Well, I suppose those are bird-like. But-" And then, that was when she got poked. She didn't squeak, but it did make her snort and stifle a snicker. "H-hey! O-of course I don't squeak," She says, making as if to bat at the poking hand. "Used to the squeak now? Are you thinking I am a rubber ducky?" Then, she gets surprised after the brief moment of strange quiet from this lady is interrupted by this sudden exclamation. "Oh, it's fine! And I'm Atreis." She says, looking at that village, then giving Queenie as best a bow she can, more a partial crouch than a bow. "Wait, centuries ago..? Tell me Queenie, are you a fey, or a... vampire?"

“Well…. Sometimes giant. Sometimes small. Always chaotic.” She said. “It’s complicated, also yes, you can fly and are sitting on a tree branch. While not strictly a bird you are bird like in relevant qualities. Mainly the flight.” She said before she took a moment and poked her, gently.

“You don’t squeak. I…. I don’t know what I expected there.” Queenie looking at her hand disappointed. “Kinda used the the squeak now.” There was a moment. “Oh god, sorry? I’ve been very rude. I’m queenie. This is my kingdom, uh…. That way.” She turned and pointed to the small town by the lake nearby. “S’not much and it’s actually ruled by a parliament, but I set it up centuries ago so, it’s mine!” And there’s the first hint.

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"Of course-pffft, wait, a 'bird-?' In that case, you are a cat." She says. playfully teasing this lady back. Though of course, there might just be something about this woman that felt a little off. Like she wasn't simply just a human. A normal human, at least. "Oh, has it now?" The dragoness acts next, now genuine;y curious... then confused again. "A giant ducky..? N-nevermind that for the moment. Yes, I can breathe fire." She answers first, shaking off the confusion. "As for an element..? I'm not sure, asides from by breath, if I am aligned with one." "Though I am half sea dragon, from my father's side." She adds. Her body *is* subtly more crocodilian in some aspects. But, while can't shake off that whole "rubber ducky" thing, she's grinning at this lady's excitement.

@queeniethevampire continued from here: x At first, the dragon just seems to. Freeze in place, for lack of a better word... Then lets out an undignified high-pitched noise, like the frightened chirp a little lizard would give. She almost flails about in surprise, but rights herself before anything bad happens. Asides from shaking the tree more than a little. After taking a moment to register that the stranger was... a human woman? She answers, bemused and bashful alike. "Ohh, yes it is..." She says first, trying to gather her thoughts at the moment. "But... how'd you get up here?" She can't help but ask next, an impulse of curiosity overcoming her.

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"Thanks!" Atreis says, giving this (admittedly pretty) lady a wink as she gets ready to follow. "Lead the way, then-!" As she says so, she tries her best to not get too distracted by this lady's curves. Bot the best way to start off friendly reactions with a helpful museum employee with likely-unwanted ogling... Not that Ava isn't beautiful. Focus, focus. Atreis reminds herself, trying not to forget her reason for coming here.

A big grin spreads on Atreis' face, as she replies with "Nice! Uh, which section of the exhibit hall is it, again?" Entirely forgotten she didn't know where that part was at. As she asks, she takes a quick look at her watch. She was here to study ancient dragons and related creatures, but she supposed she had some time to kill. "Ohhh, any vending machines nearby, too?"

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She's not sure how to feel about that grin she was given, but the dragon smiles back at this strange woman as best as possible, bth trying to be polite and because it was... oddly infectious? "Is that so..?" She replies back at first, still slowly getting her bearsing to a degree at all this. "Ah right, of course. I should've guessed." She says, affirming she finally comprehended, but also everso-slightly playful in her tone. In a good-natured manner. "Yes, I suppose so. If you put up the effort to..." The dragoness muses on the side, scratching her own chin in thought while looking the human lady over. "You must have a lot of energy and physical strength to've done that."

@queeniethevampire continued from here: x At first, the dragon just seems to. Freeze in place, for lack of a better word... Then lets out an undignified high-pitched noise, like the frightened chirp a little lizard would give. She almost flails about in surprise, but rights herself before anything bad happens. Asides from shaking the tree more than a little. After taking a moment to register that the stranger was... a human woman? She answers, bemused and bashful alike. "Ohh, yes it is..." She says first, trying to gather her thoughts at the moment. "But... how'd you get up here?" She can't help but ask next, an impulse of curiosity overcoming her.

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@queeniethevampire continued from here: x At first, the dragon just seems to. Freeze in place, for lack of a better word... Then lets out an undignified high-pitched noise, like the frightened chirp a little lizard would give. She almost flails about in surprise, but rights herself before anything bad happens. Asides from shaking the tree more than a little. After taking a moment to register that the stranger was... a human woman? She answers, bemused and bashful alike. "Ohh, yes it is..." She says first, trying to gather her thoughts at the moment. "But... how'd you get up here?" She can't help but ask next, an impulse of curiosity overcoming her.

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Atreis was simply taking a breather between flights, on her long travel… When she first hears an absurd sound, and then sees an absurd sight. A big... dog-woman, eating a tree..? The black dragoness is transfixed at this bizarre act with some sort of... odd fascination? She's not sure what it is just yet, but she's left in awe. That much is for certain. As she stares at this, she's unaware of both the goofy grin on her face, and then the misplaced step she gives on a tree limb, making a loud snap that echoed through the trees. "Oh sorry, just passing through!" The dragoness bashfully says, trying not to seem rude. That silly grin still on her face, despite her embarrassment.

Don't mind Chiasa's, she's just chopping down a tree - just using her teeth. Like a beaver. nom nom nom.

....she's been understimulated all morning.

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"Ooh. cool! I'd ask you how long you'd have to had studied for that, but then we'd be here all day." Is what she asks first, even more curious. "At least I might get to know someone that tells me how these sorta things work..." She gets a silly grin at the human woman coming out of hiding even more for some reason... "Heh, yes. I suppose so..." She remarks in kind, shaken from her musings. "Ohhh! I was trying to come in low, but got too close to the treeline, the canopy. And I panicked." She admits, a little bashful about it. "Might have clipped a branch or two, but asides from that and the big dunk, I'm fine..?"

"Ooh! Interesting..." She says first, actually curious about this stranger. When the human peeks out, the dragon has to hold in a slight squeal of adoration. Oh no, she's cute... She thinks to herself... "Genetics and zoology? she listens to these words carefully, trying to remember where some come from in human languages... "You study DNA and nonhuman-medicine, yes?" She asks next. "Oh-?" Before she then pauses in surprise at the lady's next question, seeming to take a few moments to mentally calculate, then check herself over real quick. "Uhhh, nothing more than some slight scrapes..?"

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@redemptioninchaos continued from here: x Blinking in confusion, the dragon looks the catfolk man up and down, unsure at first of what to make of him. As she takes a big whiff of his scent, she then hears the clamor of what sounds like men and metal coming from roughly the direction the cat-man came from, and looks at that direction to see... Oh no- "Do you need... somewhere to hide-?" Is all she asks of him at this moment, managing to put two and two together.

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"Ummm-" Atreis gets all flustered, trying her best to not look away from Mura bashfully. "Would you believe me that I guessed about most of it good enough..?" As she answers with that, she nervously twiddles her talons like humans twiddle their fingers.

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"Ooh, pretty good, pretty good, miss dragon! You know your stuff!"

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"Ohhh! Thank you, madam." The harpy says, trying not to think too much of the woman's oddly... shy behavior? Maybe she just got flustred too easily. But he tries his best to not make this awkward. "Ohhh! That's making me even hungrier." He huffs out in a slight laugh, resisting the urge to pat his stomach as he does so. "I suppose I'll have one of those chicken meatpies and the stew! And do you have any doughnuts?" As he asks this, he notes her tone and characteristics, in voice and mannerism.

Savory scents filled the forum, a small line forming at a food stand. Magically-attuned people could sense aether in the air as a purple-skinned tiefling(?) worked effortlessly to create baked goods of all kinds. Meals that should have taken at least an hour to create were formed in minutes, and the gold was piling up for the mysterious baker. Many within the queue regarded her with a little bit of caution, but caution gave way to curiosity as time went on...

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Confused and startled, Atreis bites back an undignified squeak of surprise as she peers at the source of that voice.

"Eh-? Of course I'm not a human, you silly… merlady!" She says at first, trying not to laugh at first. But then makes a guttural sound almost like how human clear their throats, as she says, "Sorry, I get a little cranky when I'm startled out of nowhere. But no, I don't think I scared any humans away. "Humans are skittish, though." She playfully adds.

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"Hey, you're not a human!"

Mura huffed as she poked out of the water to glower at the dragoness on the beach.

"You didn't scare them away, right? Humans are very skittish, you know!"