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Sauron had just come from another jungle foray into his small Jauhar town, it was a quiant place, cozy and had claimed his heart since the beginning of time, he had been born in Ast and had raised two sets of babbins here with his beautiful wife and lately he would say that there was nothing here that could or would surprise him, and yet the forest still held many mysteries unbeknowst to the old shifter, one of them was about to alter his views yet again.

Change and new things were always exciting and once something surprised you, you learned to appreciate it that much more. As it was dark out he thought nothing of the shifter girl ahead of him. "Hello there, out for a walk I see. Pleasant weather we are having, though I wouldn't say it would be long before it decides to rain."

"Yep! I was just out looking for anything new or unusual. It's a bit of a hobby of mine. I don't worry too much about traveling out there, because of my radaku here, hes quite friendly don't worry, he will probably come say hello."

Skava was as good as Sauron's word and bumped her hand for a pet. "His name is Skava and mine is Sauron, I don't think I've seen you around so welcome to Ast." He liked seeing new people around especially since all the wars had settled down again. He disliked the necessity for edginess he preferred a sound welcome to suspicion himself and figured others would appreciate it too.

"Yes I've lived here pretty much all my life, except for the odd time during the war." There had been times where the further away one got from exciting things the safer you had been. "You look about the same age as some of my kids, I'm sure they wouldn't be opposed to another friend," well Vallen might be but Vallen was an odd child.

Skava licked her, letting Sauron know that the girl wasn't giving off any terrifying vibes, not that he expected her too. "Have you been to the traders yet? I can put in a good word for you at the apothecary if you like, I'm one of their suppliers."

Sauron tried and failed not to be a bit embarassed. "Um moss actually, it's always been a hobby of mine as far back as I can remember." He scratched the back of his head. "But that is just something I do in my spare time, I'm a full time Dad striving to become a rider one day. Its a long journey and somedays I'm surprised at how old I've actually become in what seemed like such a short time. But age is hard to adjust to at the best of times."

"Lana has a nice ring to it." he complimented, he was kind of curious about what the rest of it might be and how it could be too terrible to utter, after his world of V names he was sure it wouldn't be all that bad.

"Are you out from another shifter village? Or did you perhaps come form further away." Contrary to popular belief there were shifters outside of Jauhar they just were not as common for obvious reasons.

"Five if you can believe it, all have very distinct personalities which I must say I was rather surprised at, but shouldn't have been I suppose." He shrugged, "Soon enough they will be off adventuring too. I had expected they would have left Jauhar by now though, especially the older two but the political atmosphere being what it was at the time seems to have had some hand in stopping them. I'm happier now that most everyone seems to be getting along in some way or another. Except for those poor Yaeli's having the crazy alk ladies dumped on them, I don't think that was fair, but at the same time I don't want to have to deal with them myself..again." he said remembering the battle where Vuka got his limp and Vallen got that slash, he knew his son thought it was rather dashing but it had just miss an eye for craps sake.

"Have you seen any Yaeli yet in your travels between towns? I think I would like to meet one."

"I'm not really sure, its all very vague from what I have been hearing, perhaps your Father has better sources and he would to if he has met some. All I'm getting is rumor passed to others passed to others." He nodded, "I think they would like it here of course we have our own monsters in the dretch but hey there is a lot more room and a lot more people to fight, and I would fight if someone were after my children. I was an only child too but that doesn't mean I don't want to protect all of them even those not my own."

"I sincerely hope they don't try fighting I am getting so tired of war. I've been in two and they are never a good time."

"Oh my mistake then, forgive me. I know someone who has met the dretch as well, to this day she maintains a hatred of bugs." In fact Iroia was staying with them for a while, her and her son Arron, who seemed also to dislike bugs, however he had come home one day covered in nondwa dust and after he was questioned told Saron and Iroia that he and some friends had caught one, so perhaps he was a little more fond of them then his mother was.

"I however haven't had the displeasure, I hear they are quite disgusting and fantastically creepy." He had contemplated hutning some down for practice not long ago but with the trip to Oba coming up soon he thought better of it. "It astounds me that they can use magic," he added wistfuly, he had minimal power at best and had never gone into it far enough to learn much.

"From what my friend tells me they mostly ue magic over weapons, but that could be false." Sauron glanced at the pretty Nondwa, "Well I've never seen one quite that beautiful before, where did you happen to find her?" It was a startling nondwa in fact, elegant, well more so then other nondwa.

"Radaku do eat nondwa but they prefer other things fortunately, he shouldn't bother it all that much, hes well fed so no worries there."

"I don't think any of my family have nondwa, but perhaps some point in the future one of my children may decide to bring one home." He shrugged.