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Chapter 2- Living Together

Daniel awoke to find the two pieces of meat gone. Nothing else seemed to have been taken. So he stood and stretched looking around. "I guess I could use a bath; I have been riding for a while now..." he mused out loud. "A nice quick bath and then I'll take a look around these caves and see how far back they really go." He said to himself as he headed outside stripping off his clothes revealing a number of scars across his torso and arms. Setting his clothes and armor aside he slipped into the water swimming around for a moment. Daniel sighed as he swam allowing the warm water to relax him, unaware that he was being watched after jumping in.

Oriana watched him for a while, pondering as to the source of the scars, as the strange man swam in her lake. She debated on joining him for a moment, until he stood revealing his manhood to her eyes. Oriana could only wonder at her bashfulness as the sight made her blush for some unknown reason. She was so distracted and consumed in her own thoughts, of what such a male might feel like within her.

Imagining his hands roaming over her heaving chest, and between her now slick folds, that she almost didn't notice as he dressed himself again and headed in her direction making her scurry back into the caves.

She watched him wrap a piece of cloth around a large stick, soaking it in the fatty grease from the kill the prior evening, before lighting it and heading back towards her. Seeing he was obviously intent on exploring her cavern home, she gasped and rushed to hide, scurrying as quietly as possible back into the caves, not stopping till she was deep into the caverns hidden amongst her gold and treasures she had horded for over a century.

Even as she hid, she could hear her heart pounding in her chest, as he drew ever closer stopping occasionally to search other rooms. She hurriedly hid herself behind a mound of gold just as he stepped into the den and saw his astonished face as he found her treasures, suppressing a growl knowing he'd soon be stealing her treasures preparing herself to slay him to keep her precious treasures.

Daniel marveled at the caverns as he passed numerous passages and chambers. One containing a small hot spring, apparently raising from the same stream which fed the warm lake outside, and not much further he found another which held cold water. He could only surmise this to be runoff from an underground stream originating in the mountains somewhere.

The he found his greatest surprise as he entered a large chamber at the very back of the caverns. As he stepped into the chamber he was amazed to find a vast cavern filled with gold and treasures reflecting the light of his crude torch. "Incredible!" He exclaimed as he examined a few bits of the treasure. Then he stopped and set the golden trinket he was holding down as he looked around. I'd be richer than a king with all this.

Amazed, Oriana watched as he set the gold down, stepping back shaking his head, and after straining her ears she could hear him barely. "It's not mine though and someone has obviously spent a long time collecting it. It would be wrong of me to just take what isn't mine." He muttered to himself, unaware she was listening, before he turned and left. Stunned she watched him turn and leave taking noting but his torch.

"He didn't take my gold and he said he had no claim to it. Is he truly going to leave my wealth alone?" she asked herself in a whisper pondering his actions. "This human IS different." She thought as she followed him silently observing him.

Daniel awoke to find that, yet again, two strips of the meat were missing. This still left two, but sitting on the stone he'd used before was a pair of gold coins. Forcing his sluggish sleep addled legs beneath him he went to take the two coins. "So whoever has the gold is willing to trade for food; Fair enough." He said to himself as he sat and ate the last two bits of meat before heading outside to start work on building his cabin, having decided to make his home here.

By nightfall he had just finished the bottom run of logs in their earthen settings, unaware of the Dragoness watching from the woods nearby. "I wish I had a faster way to cut down these damn trees then I'd make twice the time." He complained as he sat his crudely made stone axe aside and going back down to the cave starting a fire.

Once the fire was roaring he took his lance from the side of his hoarse he had left to graze by the lake and went about fishing in the lake. Soon he returned with a number of large fish he'd managed to spear, and he set about cooking them over the now warm coals. He made sure to leave a few of his catch for his trading partner, whoever they may be.

He'd just lain down and fell asleep when she decided on a plan. Silently as possible she stole past him and took off into the air, careful not to startle his horse, flying far enough away that he wouldn't hear. Smiling at her cunning, she used her tail to quickly fall a number of trees, flying each one back and laying them in a pile of cut logs outside the cave.

Seeing the foundation of his home, it struck her that it needed to be a bit bigger. She fell a few more logs carrying them back, and then set upon re-arranging the set logs forming a larger cabin. This new layout varied in that it had a pair of rooms divided with a wall and a large span for a door easily 6 feet wide, as well as a single large door at one end.

*Just in case we ever need to meet, or if we keep trading.*She though, secretly loving the idea of a good man nearby, even if he was a human. When she had gathered up the cut the logs she set about notching them. Then she cleaned her tail and happily slipped back past him, snatching four fish from their cords as she did, and gave a slight smack with her tail to the floor. She had just vanished into the dark of the cavern as he woke up to find the pile of logs and the missing fish.

"Perhaps I'm dealing with fair folk? Who else could so silently fell so many timbers and leave them for my cabin in trade for just fish?" He wondered aloud. Then he just smiled issuing heart-felt thanks in case the fair folk were to be found nearby. What he did not know was that his speech was making a young dragoness blush in the shadows of the cave.

"Thank you whoever you may be. You're much to kind and I appreciate your gifts. I shall endeavor to continue to gain your favor in the future." He says before going back to sleep, smiling as he considers how much faster his cabin would be built with this incredible aide.

And so it went, that he would work till mid day, then fish or hunt. He was always careful to gather enough for whomever it was that was being so generous in their trades. Then he'd lie down for the night, only to wake and find the materials awaiting him, the set aside portion gone.

He was rather surprised at first when he tried to re-arrange the logs to make a small standard cabin, only to wake to find them once more re-assembled into a larger home. Decided that he should not upset his unseen help he then continued to build on the larger cabin. In just over a week's time the walls were up and he sat making the doors under the shade of a solid log roof. This too was added, much to his pleasure, by his unseen friend the night he had finished the walls.

He finished the front door from a few short bits of tree trunk, attaching them with wooden pegs, once sized, and using a hammer and small axe, also traded for from his friend, as just hours before nightfall. Glad to have the aid of his unseen partner, who seemed to be quite happy to provide for his construction and to do labor that would have taken him weeks on his own, he decided that he'd be more generous in his gift that night.

It was then, during his musings, that he heard the sickening thud at the cave which had him rushing back. He was greeted to the site of the cave entrance smeared with blood trailing into the back of the cave. Grabbing his torch, a beautiful golden leafed one his partner had given him, apparently to allow him access to the water, he followed the bloody trail intent on finding it's owner.