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"Sure. It was nice meeting you. I'll come around sometime soon. See you around, Em. Take care." He watched her go and when she was out of sight, he then left himself.

End.

The jungle was warm, and that seemed to put Zach into a good mood. He'd recently climbed down from a tree branch when the height had gotten to him, and decided instead to sit at the base of the tree. Clawed hands flew through the air to ward off the larger mosquitos and other bloodsuckers that plagued him where he hadn't grown scales. His face was still pretty sore, and the left side was spotted with ugly bluish-purple bruising, but he'd been able to take off the splint that morning.

After taking a couple of the perscription pain medication, he dozed off against the trunk of the tree, tail twitching as he slept.

"Hrrrrrgh!" Both eyes snapped open, and his tail now sweeped in wide arcs, some whisking close to the fallen individual. He bared his teeth in a gutteral growl, but soon went back to snoring, his eyes dim but still open. It was lucky Zach wasn't that light a sleeper.

But he'd only had a minute more of his nap before the yelling snapped him out of it. Once again some flicker of consciousness lit up his face, and he mumbled something unintelligible under his breath, blinking the sleep from his eyes. Lots of green... the jungle. He must have fallen asleep there. He stretched both arms out and yawned widely, inadvertently showing his teeth, and started to stretch his wings before he noticed he wasn't alone. "Uh, hello...?"

The giant red lizard stared back at the other guy for a minute and a half with a look of tired annoyance before attempting to smile pleasantly. Another new arrival, by the expression on his face. It spoke for itself. He folded his wings back and wondered if this guy would be more receptive to the lie he'd spun for Gaius.

He propped his head up with one hand. "Let me guesss - you're new here."

"I sssee." He continued to veil his voice and expression with a benign look, trying his hardest to keep his tail from moving around too much. It would give him away if it looked as real as it was. "Nicsse to meet you, Marshall. I'm Zachary." He held out his scaly left hand confidently, as if daring Marshall to shake it.

"Three daysss, hm?" He released Marshall's hand after a single shake. "How many other people have you met around here?"

"Oh, thisss?" he laughed quietly, waving absently at his tail. He drew on a lie he'd heard before, hoping it would correlate with whatever Marshall had been told. "Don't worry about it. It'sss... exsspensssive, but replacssable. Just animatronicsss."

The question caught him off guard, making him raise his frill slightly in alarm. This newcomer caught on awfully quick to what was going on, and that ruined all the fun of misleading him. "I, uh, I do mind. It takesss an hour and a half jussst to get it all on. I don't want to wassste time. You underssstand, right?"