[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Nathan's scared of a lot of things right now.  Always been nervous and skittish about others.

Poison's always been one of those many things.

He...he didn't want to be scared of Aspis, though...

...so despite how much his hand is nervously shaking, he touches one of Aspis's fangs, his eyes closed as he does so...

...it sends a VERY cold shiver down both his spine and Kirlia's that not even being engulfed in flame could stave off...brrrrrr...Nathan almost drops Orthros...

Kirlia's tense now too.  If Aspis tried anything that might physically harm Nathan, he was going to give the snake a (hypnotic) stare of his own to try and get the snake to stop/relax...

Apsis watch as Nathan, nervousness and fear wracking his (to her) puny frame, blindly reach out to grope her left fang, with it shaking so hard that it threatened to fumble straight down her maw. Well now. So the boy was willing to put himself at great risk in order to earn her approval, even if he had his annoying little Psychic giving her the stink eye and acting as a fail safe. Interesting, *Hiiiissss*

The giant snake patienently stood still like this with Nathan for a good solid minute, intently staring into his shuttered eyes and watching him squirm all the while......until she darted her tongue across his hand, gave it a niiice good slobbering in the process, and slowly leaned away with a pleased look on her face. There! She had planned to coat the boy in a layer of saliva for their past transgression against her master, and she had finally accomplished that goal! Revenge was there's at last, *Hiiiiissss!*

Now with a much less severe but much more amused yet piercing stare, Apsis craned her head down further to let Nathan pat/stroke her there. With her vengeance at long last achieved and acknowledging the fact that Nathan was willing/determined enough to leave himself in vulnerable to her tender mercies in order to garner her approval, she had deamed he had re-earned the right to touch her magnificent scaled body once more. Of course, should the boy cross her and her master aggergously again, the regal snake would just have to plan an even more humiliating way to 'get even' with them, *Hiiisss Hiiiisss!*

Ventus let out a breath he didn't know he was holding as his sister and the young trainer did not run afoul with one another, though now their was a hint of a smile in his severe experssion. He didn't savor the idea of recalling his sister and/or expending Healing Items on Nathan, since those consequences lead back to some rather.....dire events, to say the least, so he was quite grateful such things didn't need be done! The researcher continues to watch both, now much less tense and waiting to see how Nathan reacts. They still kept glancing at the archmage every now and again, of course, but much less likely to spring upon them now that he had an distraction to occupy some of his attention.....

Though that didn't stop him from shooting yet another disapproving/VERY worried glare as Shiva spoke to the archmage before he was finished with his task! Was that fae woman trying to get herself/them all killed?! Fortunately that didn't occur, but still, why did she take such a STUPID risk?! Graaggh, his blood pressure.....