ooc: Sassa has two young Nile Monitor lizard NPC, they are not the focus of the thread right now just the start xD

This was a good as place as any, to let them practice their skills at hunting. Plenty of dragonflies and bugs for them to chase and attempt to eat while she watched over them, since she found them in the caverns they resisted the urge to run from her. It seemed they knew they could feed with her protective watching, laying in the shadows of a nearby bush she crossed her limbs to watch her two nile monitors run and squawk. ”Sigrud gentle!” she hissed at the female who was being a little rough with her brother. Ear was twitching carefully listening in case someone was trying to sneak up on them.

He had seen a lot of odd sights in his time.

After all, being alive for 6 long years - very long years - would expose you to all sorts of oddities. But a lion playing with lizards? That was.... different. Magnus didn't believe he had yet been spotted, and so would spend a moment or two silently watching the interaction between @Sassa and her scaled companions. If he hadn't seen the glimpse of hairless black hide, beady eyes and long tapering tails with his own eyes (eye), he would have assumed she was speaking to cubs; her tone, after all, was one of a chiding mother. And yet.... Well, who was he to judge? Clearing his throat, he would take one step forward, and then another, fully expecting for the crunching of foliage beneath his mammoth weight to betray his position before the sight of him did. "Your companions are..... unusual," he stated after a pause, mismatched gaze flitting down to watch the little cold-blooded beasts.

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Suddenly the lizards fleed to nuzzle into Sassa's back, after their traumatic bringing into the world she didn't blame them. The crunchin gof the foilage made her head turn but she wasn't worried, not yet. He didn't seem threatening and she could move quite fast if needed, with the lizards clinging to her neck peeking around her she looked him over carefully.

”that's far enough” she said softly, no force in her words, she just didn't want him closer. ”They feed themselves. Can't complain on that aspect” she shrugged her shoulders slightly making the lizards rise up and down but their heads didn't move. It looked eerie. ”Besides not all of us can have cubs” she added, not that she couldn't just... well it was hard to wasn't it without the right lion? Thoughts drifted to Art and she cleared her throat suddenly, ”Sassa Wynter, you?” she asked for his name to get a name to the face.


@Magnus

To see a lion mingle so closely with lizards was.... strange. His attention would follow them as they scuttled up the pink-pelted female's back and settled to perch on her shoulders, flitting to the young lioness' face once she spoke again. He would arch a brow, but oblige to her request. He'd keep his distance; he had no reason to get any closer, nor any particular desire. "Don't worry," Magnus would offer with a gruff, an assurance to the girl that he'd respect her personal boundaries, "I'll stay back. I don't feel like getting my ankles bitten." A jab; both at the height difference between the two lions, and a joke made at the expense of her 'attack dogs'. "Magnus Sigrún." A glance would be cast back over at the beady-eyed little things that found purchase on @Sassa's back. "Have you named them?"