[ Down she goes, onto her ass on the forest floor. In her mind, she's fully about to be torn apart within seconds, and so she really has no other option, does she? Practiced as moving a muscle, she brings a familiar to the surface, coalescing its form out of magic until a bird the size and look of a raven sits on her arm. She'll have to put her mind into it to control it further, which is a suboptimal choice at the moment if something else targets her body, but surely it's better than immediately rolling over and becoming monster chow?
Despite her expectations, however, the chimera doesn't attack. It lands on a downed tree nearby and eyes her, head tilted, which is honestly also kind of unnerving! Is it sizing her up?! Is it trying to determine how many monsters she'll feed?!
Apparently it's curious too, but she really doesn't know if it's better when it asks her things like that. Are human-based chimera self-aware? The last one she met didn't seem to be able to talk, but maybe that was just an exception? Augh—she totally missed it if the Captain ever covered it, but since she's usually surrounded by people well-read on all the magic aspects, she just let them decide how to deal with the complicated situations!
She'll talk, if only because it seems she isn't dying immediately. ]
They're... monsters, made by a Dungeon Lord using magic to fuse together multiple beings.
[ Usually animals or other monsters, and differentiated from beastmen by their unusual anatomy and inability to transform, and, of course, their loyalty to the Lord of the Dungeon. But those are technicalities Fleki has no mind to explain right now, being much more concerned about her immediate survival. ]
L-look, I'm not gonna try and mess with your Master or anything, so maybe you can just... let me go?
[ That would probably be treasonous if any Canaries were around to hear her say it, but she's only saying it because she's completely alone in the first place! No backup, no one to even revive her if she dies! If she gets out of here in one piece she swears she'll make a proper report, so please just let her make it out, okay? ]
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[ Down she goes, onto her ass on the forest floor. In her mind, she's fully about to be torn apart within seconds, and so she really has no other option, does she? Practiced as moving a muscle, she brings a familiar to the surface, coalescing its form out of magic until a bird the size and look of a raven sits on her arm. She'll have to put her mind into it to control it further, which is a suboptimal choice at the moment if something else targets her body, but surely it's better than immediately rolling over and becoming monster chow?
Despite her expectations, however, the chimera doesn't attack. It lands on a downed tree nearby and eyes her, head tilted, which is honestly also kind of unnerving! Is it sizing her up?! Is it trying to determine how many monsters she'll feed?!
Apparently it's curious too, but she really doesn't know if it's better when it asks her things like that. Are human-based chimera self-aware? The last one she met didn't seem to be able to talk, but maybe that was just an exception? Augh—she totally missed it if the Captain ever covered it, but since she's usually surrounded by people well-read on all the magic aspects, she just let them decide how to deal with the complicated situations!
She'll talk, if only because it seems she isn't dying immediately. ]
They're... monsters, made by a Dungeon Lord using magic to fuse together multiple beings.
[ Usually animals or other monsters, and differentiated from beastmen by their unusual anatomy and inability to transform, and, of course, their loyalty to the Lord of the Dungeon. But those are technicalities Fleki has no mind to explain right now, being much more concerned about her immediate survival. ]
L-look, I'm not gonna try and mess with your Master or anything, so maybe you can just... let me go?
[ That would probably be treasonous if any Canaries were around to hear her say it, but she's only saying it because she's completely alone in the first place! No backup, no one to even revive her if she dies! If she gets out of here in one piece she swears she'll make a proper report, so please just let her make it out, okay? ]