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- Posted: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 03:52:19 +0000
Akragth (Lavafang)
Location: At the Bar Counter, near(ish) Adalyn
Akragth rumbled softly, moderating its admittedly slightly loud voice because its chest barrel was simply larger than a human's, "Thank'ee," before dipping its head to tip the ale into his mouth.
The awkward positioning was just that, awkward, but it also looked like it'd done this many times before, the beast failing to spill a single drop as the liquid was carefully poured into the canine-shaped mouth. The careful rebalancing Akragth did resettling the flat of the mug on the counter looked practiced, even as the back legs shuffled to relieve pressure that should really have been spread on all four limbs.
Standing like this was, in all honesty, unnatural to the four-legged creature, even spending its childhood years among humans as it has. Childhood, as if Akragth was a full adult, the feet still vaguely larger and with the last remnants of puppyish size to them. Akragth would not be adult for another three hundred years left.
The black ears flicked back, catching the sound with the sharpness of nonhuman hearing. The canine paused in mid-motion as it had been dipping its head for another mouthful, although there really wasn't much left for a second, as large as Akragth was. A flick of the claws on the right forelimb 'holding' the container along with the careful assistance of the tail, and the mug was set rocking back to its flat bottom. It withdrew it front paws from the counter, and settled on all fours.
At five feet high at the shoulder, Akragth was still tall enough with the length of the rest of the neck elevating it by another foot to be well over the counter. It was only the necessity of using the foreclaws that the lavafang had even stood up. "Not a pit," Akragth rumbled mildly at the female that it was uncertain was entirely human, and had been nervy about the origins of, "Just about - what was it, a hundred and twenty dimins of snow and ice? Happens, when one goes to sleep in the far north for a few decacycles or so."
The lavafang paused, then remembered. "Ah, right. You don't use cycles here. About ten-ten years. A hundred years," it clarified. "And about forty feet."
It'd gone to sleep for that long because Akragth had gotten tired of that reaction. The reaction about what kind of abyss, pit, whatever the local term was, it'd come from and almost in a derisive manner. Curiosity was a rare thing, and it hadn't been able to read humans in a long time. At least it wasn't screaming and pitchforks again.
Its head tilted at the fully human girl, or so she smelled and seemed, and said without rancor of her edging away, "This one is entirely disinterested in eating humans, it informs you. This one is not a hellhound, all fire and flash and temper. This one is of mountain blood, not of abyss born." Mountain blood, or rather deep magma and slow, oozing lava, the volcanic vents and heat that gave rise to the hot springs. Young as Akragth might be, it entirely lacked the irritability that its cousins in form, if not blood, had. Impatience was measured in months, days, not the quick snap of mere seconds.