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"Oh... alright, as long as you don't mind and they don't get in trouble ", Wayra sighed in relief, glad that the man wasn't mad anymore and that the situation was being resolved. "The offer's still open if you want me to show you how that works", she commented to the kitsune before continuing in a more quiet voice, "I have a feeling you all are a lot smarter and know more of what's going on than the others give you credit for."

Leaving the offer on the table should the kitsune decide to take it, Wayra packed away the camera she'd been offering and turned, in a much more relaxed state, to see more creatures had joined them. "Aww, this one is just adorable", the vet crooned, walking over and kneeling down to give the tiny wyvern that was clinging to the man a gentle pet on the head. "It's okay little guy, I won't hurt you."

Turning at a flash of gray and silver without ceasing her petting of the wyvern, she saw the fluffy dog, the fu dog, was strutting around like he was on display at the dog show."You look great!", she called to the creature with a chuckle, giving it the praise it was rightfully earning. "It almost looks like he could be walking down a runway, doesn't it Mr. ...", the vet commented to the man before realizing she hadn't even gotten his name... nor had she given hers.

"Oh, I feel silly now. I've been talking to you all this time without even introducing myself. I'm Wayra, a zoo veterinarian", she finally greeted with a warm smile.

Oh boy, Azrael was enjoying making the human who got tricked by the kitsune squirm. What kind of face would he make if he saw it?

{ Hello, tiny one. No need to fret, we don't bite... much.}

The human called Wayra was gaining points with the dragon. that one looked like she understood the Forest's inhabitants weren't some mindless animals. The big serpent let a discreet rumbling noise of approbation towards the playing trio and the human vet.

"I hope so. It'd be a shame to lose the pictures you took the time out to take." Wayra looked at the creature she was petting thoughtfully for a moment before replying, "Well, first glance would say it's a dragon, but... from what I read in books, dragons tend to have two arms and two legs, usually clawed, and sometimes wings on their back. This one, however, looks like it has two legs and two frontal wings with hooks on the end, kind of like a bat. So, if memory serves... that would make it a wyvern?" She nodded after a moment, deciding that answer felt right.

Suddenly, the little wyvern decided she was trustworthy enough to climb onto. Wayra giggled and squirmed as the creature climbed around on her clothes before it finally jumping up and settling on top of her head. "Well, it seems I made a friend quickly enough. I just wish I wasn't so ticklish", she chuckled as it let out a chirp.

Hearing a rumbling, Wayra turned her head carefully with the creature on top to see what she could safely identify as a dragon laying on the ground a fair distance away, watching everyone. "There really are a lot of amazing creatures here", she murmured in appreciation.

He gives looks back down at the little creature stuffing the trail mix in to it's mouth " A wyvern huh." He watches as the wyvern scampers and perches on top of Wayra's head " looks like you got a new hat there." he laughs " it's very nice looking."

Steve still couldn't shake the feeling that something was in the tree's watching them, every once in awhile he would glance towards that direction to see if he could get a glimpse of it. He heard a little rumble and watched as Wayra turned in the direction of it. " you see something out there?" he whispered.

Wayra chuckled at the thought of a wyvern as a hat. It was a pity that this couldn't last forever, she was thoroughly enjoying herself now. Steve's whispered question broke her out of her train of thought.

"Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell with just a casual glance, but there's a black dragon hiding over there in the shadows of the trees", she replied, nodding her head in the direction of the creature. "The first tip-off was the noise it made, which gives the general direction. After that, you just need to pinpoint the exact location. For example, even though it's hiding in the shadow of the trees, you can still see patches of sun breaking though to shine on its black scales that are moving as it breathes", she went on, waving her hand toward the area where the sun shown through the trees. "Also, all animal's eyes have a certain luminescence to them that can't be hidden unless they almost completely shut them. Using those three hints, it's only takes some keen observation to figure out its hiding place. I spent a lot of time looking for animals that didn't want to take medicine, change bandages, or get shots, so I picked up a few tricks over the years", she chuckled.

"It looks like it's just observing, so as long as we don't do anything to upset it, I think we'll be fine", she added reassuringly as she reached up to give the wyvern on her head a scratch under its chin.

Nyanin was surprised to see another friend! He was so distracted by Friend and HeadPetFriend and BiteyFriend that he didn't see FluffyFriend!

Excited chirps, whistles and whirrs burst from him as he waddled around in circles on HeadPetFriend's head-nest, trying in earnest to keep Fluffyfriend in sight. {Hello FluffyFriend! Hello! Hi! Fluffyhello! Friend has nuts! Do you eat nuts? Or do you eat fruits?} He was excited to have a new friend, but hoped FluffyFriend didn't eat fruits - FluffyFriend was much bigger than Nyanin, so would probably want to eat all the fruits.

Nyanin quickly forgot this fact. There was so much excitement! Another Friend! Another headpet! The BEST DAY!

Abigail frowned a bit as it seemed like one of the guests had gotten into an altercation with a resident--clearly it couldn't have been the resident's fault, or anything. "Um, I think that--oh, Mr. Steve, please don't feed our residents, we have them on a carefully controlled diet! Ithinkit'stiemtogonow," she said a little frantically, her voice growing smaller and smaller.

Steve Watched on as the dog like creature and the wyvern seamed to have communicate with each other. He grabs his note book and starts writing down notes. Every once in awhile he would look up to the trees and roll his eyes at the group of creatures still playing with the camera. " still don't see no dragon but i think that's a good thing." He whispered to himself. If that's the thing that has been giving him the chills and watching them all day he wasn't sure if he could handle meeting it if it came out of the trees.

" Oh sorry about that I promise not to do it again." He said when he heard Ms. Matthews call him out on feeding the cuteness that was the wyvern. He thought he had been much more stealth like when he was doing that.
As Bear came out of the woods and up to him talking about food " ahh do we have to go?" he said in a little whine. He gave the wyvern one last little pat on the back since he couldn't reach it's head this time, " bye buddy." and went over to pat the dog creature on the head. He looked over at the Kirin, centaur and Kitsune and gave a small little smile, they sure seemed to have fun with that thing.

He crawls back into the car like a child that was just put in time out he didn't want to leave this forest. Even with his little fight about the camera getting taken he loved all the creatures here.
He leaned his head out the window "bye Wayra." Maybe we can meet up at dinner or something." He turns back to Bear " Where have you been anyways. you look like you got lost?"


Exits to gnome car and dining area