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“What the hell was that? I was tempted to pretend I didn't know you. To just walk away and leave your sorry ass face down in the dirt."

“Ugh." Leon groaned as he opened his eyes and saw Erik standing nonchalantly against a worn brick wall that looked in desperate need of whitewashing. “What happened?" he croaked, putting a hand to his forehead.

“What happened? The hell do you mean, what happened? I Just asked you that!" Erik groused, glaring down at Leon.

“I don't know what happened," he responded, blinking his eyes several times in an attempt to stop seeing double. “Who knocked me out?"

Erik barked a laugh and then spit on the ground. “You did, you dumb bastard."

I did? He rubbed his head, feeling a large bump forming. His right eyelid twitched feverishly. Did I run into a wall? He reached out a hand in Erik's direction.

Erik looked at the hand, and then to Leon's face. “So I can catch whatever you've got?"

Leon glared, and then grimaced as it pulled the skin over the forehead lump.

Erik reached down and grabbed the outstretched hand, hauling Leon to his feet.

Head spinning, Leon reached out a hand to hold himself steady against the wall. This feels familiar…

“No, wait… no. I think maybe… no… yes. I'm remembering something."

“Don't make me knock you back onto your ass," Erik growled, both of his slowly spinning heads looking fierce in Leon's eyes; so he closed them. That actually made things worse, so he opened them again and just focused on the peeling wall inches from his face.

“I think something's wrong with Niara."

Erik spit again. “Neara," he said, “Who the fuck is Neara?"

“Nee-ar-ah," he enunciated slowly. “And she's the dragon who healed me."

Erik raised his left eyebrow questioningly. “So you got rescued by a girl dragon, you know her name, and now you're worried about her? Don't tell me you've got a little girl crush on her. Ha, ha, ha." Leon's face must have betrayed something of his feelings for her, as Erik spat on the ground again and cursed under his breath. “You do. You're even dumber than I thought. You've as much chance of getting with a dragon as you do of becoming King of all Africa." Again, something in Leon's face – Something… like my ridiculous grin, maybe? – must have betrayed him. Erik's face became the definition of shocked surprise. “No. You didn't… You did! You managed to infiltrate her pink, velvet, sausage wallet with your one-eyed, custard spitting, sea lizard?"

Leon couldn't keep a grin from being plastered on his face as he nodded enthusiastically, and then stopped abruptly, as the nodding was making his head throb even worse.

Erik was laughing appreciatively as he reached out and clapped Leon on the shoulder.

“I'm not normally interested in lizards that way, but I think I'd make an exception for a dragon. Or a crocodile, for that matter. Matter of manly prowess, you know?" He snorted, lifted one leg, and shit his pants. “Oh, shi… fuck..."

The sound had barely faded and already both men suddenly looked entirely serious, shifting their eyes left and right to see if anyone had noticed.

No. He didn't. Leon erupted into gales of laughter and collapsed back against the wall, sliding down it until he was sitting. He could hardly wait to tell Niara about this when she woke up again.

“Hey, fuck off. It's not funny," Erik protested. He suddenly acquired a very prim, proper, and poised look, and then said, “I have something I must attend to, and our naked friend has disappeared. Meet me back at the tavern in the morning; I'd like to see how this ends," he finished, and then turned on one heel and shuffled away into the crowd.

Leon wiped the tears from his eyes, got back to his feet, and started off in search of an inn to spend the night. He definitely would enjoy telling Niara about his day.