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Scales and Honor: City of Light

Chapter 3: Dragon's Delight

Veledar was currently laying down inside the bedroom of the little girl Gwen, his tail carefully curled around him and his head resting on his paws. He gave his tail a slight twitch, letting it smack the hard wooden floor with a thud. Gwen was currently holding a small little stuffed red dragon plush toy and was holding it proudly out to him. It looked to be fairly new, as the stitching on it seemed pristine. The cloth seemed to be silk and had a small sheen to it, that reflected the glow of the lantern in her room. The little red dragon had crimson membrane wings, little black horns, and two small orange buttons for eyes.

“This here is smoky!" Gwen said, with a smile on her face. She put a finger to the little dragon's nose and pressed down. “See he likes to fly all day, blow fire, and...uh kidnap princesses."

“Kidnap princesses?" Veledar rolled his eyes and drummed his claws on the floor. He imagined some dragons ended up doing that, but he had not heard of any that had. How that little stereotype got started he would never know. His thoughts turned to Cordenth and how he had gone about 'kidnapping a princess'. “Why would.....Smokey here go about doing that?" He cocked his head, as the frills on the side of his head fidgeted.

“Because he wants to bring them home to his giant lair and have a.....a tea party!" Gwen cried out, and twirled the small dragon around as if he were flying. On one such turn she lost her balance and fell onto Veledar's snout, with an “ooomph". She laughed with glee as Veledar let out a playful snort from his nostrils, ruffling her dress. “Sorry about that Mr. Crimson Sky sir."

“It's just Crimson Sky my dear little whelp."

“I'm not a whelp!" Gwen stomped her foot slightly, “I am a little girl!"

Veledar just chuckled at her, “Whelp is what I refer to all offspring when they are young. Your not exactly a dragon, so I cannot give you the proper aging." He put a claw to his snout, as Gwen cocked her head.

“Well if I were a dragon Mr. Crimson Sky sir, what would I be called?"

“It's just Crimson Sky." he said again, tapping his claw against his chin. “Well Gwen, how old are you again? I am not sure exactly how old human children are.

“I am six!" She held out her hands, proudly showing off six of her digits.

“Ah so you are 24 seasons."

“What? I said I was six!" Gwen pushed her hands closer to his eyes. “See this many!"

“No, Dragons measure age by seasons."

“Oh well that's weird." Gwen laughed slightly, “So what would I be called, you havn't said!"

Was I this impatient as a wrymling mother? He asked himself, only to get an answer almost instantly. Who am I kidding, I am still this impatient. “Well Gwen, since you are 24.......6 years old you would be considered a wrymling." He took one of his claws and tapped her nose slightly, illicting a giggle from her.

“Would I be able to fly?" She asked, holding smokey close to her chest.

“Just barely, since as we do not have the ability to fly when we are small. Our parents carry us into the sky." Veledar thought back once again to his time flying with his adopted mother. Remembering the wind battering his face, the sun's warm rays on his scales, and the thrill beating in his chest.

“Wow that must be scary." Gwen pouted, “So how do you learn ta fly?"

“They drop up one day, so that we may try." He chuckled, remembering his first time.

“They drop you!" Gwen gasped, looking horrified. “That's terrible!"

“It really isn't, we have out wings of course." He stretched his right wing wide, for her to see the membranes. He felt his wing push a small wooden box on a small bed side table. The box hurtled to the ground and burst upon contact. From it's insides spilled brown wooden jewelry, and beads. He cringed as the last bit of wood rattled against the floor.

“My box!" Gwen cried, bounding over to the mess the dragon had just made. She started picking up the scattered things and placing them once again in the box. “You got ta be more careful!" She said, turning around and closing the box with a harsh smack.

“Sorry, I did not mean to damage any of your.....things. I meant to show you my wing here." He wiggled the wing he still had extended, almost hitting a painting on the wall of a horse running in a forest.

“Your wing is nice Mr Crimson Sky sir! Can you put it away? Before you make a mess?"

“Its just Crimson Sky." He folded up his wing and let out a hiss. Although he instantly regretted it as the little girl backed away suddenly, face full of fear. Good going. He held up a claw, “Apologies Gwen, I forgot you are not used to my sounds. I did not mean to frighten you."

Her face softened, as her muscles untensed. “Okay." She said softly, taking a deep breath as she clutched Smokey tighter than he had seen her do before.

“Than he just barges in and trips onto a table." Arcturus laughed, as he walked into Gwen's room. He had a big grin on his face as his eyes looked to Gwen and than swiftly to Veledar. With him was the blue gryphon Krotos, who seemed to be in mid laughter as he was no doubt picturing Veledar's moment of breaking a table in Trost.

“You think that's funny? You should have seen Arcturus here scream when I took him flying for the first time." Veledar chuckled in his throat as he remembered that first loud ear piercing scream. “It was than I learned here my paladin likes to scream out for dragons." I think that sounded a bit more dirty than I meant.

“Oh does he now?" Krotos put on a sly grin, as he slid a talon across his beak. His eyes looked to Arcturus and he rose one of his eye brows. “He likes to scream for dragons? Do you like to do anything else for our red friend here?" He nudged the human slightly with one of his wings.

“Not what your thinking kitty bird." Arcturus replied back, “And it was not taking me flying. He snatched me suddenly from my ship and dove out the bottom!"

“Kitty bird! I have not heard that little name for my kind before, where on earth did you hear it? I mean it makes sense of course, but wow."

Arcturus gestured to Veledar by holding out both of his hands, and flipping them over to show his palms. “This one here started using it to refer to gryphons. I cannot get him to stop of course."

“So Crimson Sky, what were you to with Gwen in here?" Krotos asked, his eyes turning to the little girl. “Nothing devious I hope?

“I was showing him Smokey! He told me I was a whelp!" She smiled, thrusting out the small dragon for the others to see.

“A whelp huh?" Krotos padded over to one of her dressers and grabbed a small brown gryphon doll with one of his talon. “So will Smokey and the great champion of the air do battle again like normal?" Krotos lowered himself, but raised the claw with the doll and shook it playfully.

“NOO!" Gwen held smokey against her chest, “They are going to become friends and go on an adventure!" She ran over to the gryphon, and pressed smokey against the gryphon doll. “They will fly away together, get treasure, fight bad guys, save princesses, and get rid of bed times."

Veledar grinned, Well that certainly sounded better than dragons fighting gryphons. See I am already having an influence here on her. Perhaps if the Lumarians did not have the constant lies, they might view dragon's better.

“Well fine!" Krotos exclaimed, pouncing several feat away, and landing without a sound on the wood. “They will travel to the farthest land, together!" He held up the small gryphon and pretended to have it fly, as Gwen bounded after him with smokey. “Will they perhaps find love?" The gryphon asked with a smile.

“Of course, they will marry one of the princesses they find!"

“How about if they find a prince?"

“They can do that too!" Gwen ran back towards Arcturus, as Krotos playfully followed her the entire time. “Oh no what if one of them gets hurt on this adventure?" Gwen suddenly stopped and turned around. Her eyes full of despair at the imaginary injury of her dolls.

“Well than.......... they will find someone to heal them!" Krotos replied without skipping a beat, causing Gwen to give another giggle.

As the two chased each other around the room Veledar returned his attention to Arcturus, who with a smile was following Gwen and Krotos with his eyes. “So what did you and Krotos end up doing while he showed you the rest of the house? I can't imagine it being interesting in the slightest."

“Not really, he just showed me the rooms and all. Asked me some brief questions about dragons. Tried to insinuate some things about us. Nothing big."

“What kind of things did he imply?" Veledar moved his snout closer to the human, close enough to touch. He gave the human an innocent look as he cocked his head.

“You can probably guess what he implied, you don't have to play dumb." He pushed Veledar's snout away softly with his soft warm hands. “Course I think most gryphons are like that when you get to know them. They are unafraid to ask questions that I might find personal."

“I guess dragon' share the same attitude then Arcturus. Honestly I do not understand why you mortals are so squeamish about those sort of those things. If you find enjoyment about it, speak about it. Do not feel shame for what you do." Veledar twitched his tail. “So what did you end up telling our little kitty bird here."

“I told him what was going on, which was nothing." Arcturus replied, his face starting to turn red. “I told him to drop it because I did not want to discuss it further is all." Arcturus rose a hand to start rubbing the back of his neck.

Veledar felt a sensation run through his body, just like the other times he had gotten a ping of emotions from Arcturus. He put a claw to his hand as the human returned his attention to the playing gryphon and child. Veledar tried to dissect the feeling he had just felt. It certainly was not disgust, or annoyance, or hate. Which is just wonderful for me. He swirled around the thought in his mind, like someone might do to a pot of cooking noodles. Embarrassment, mixed with want. Veledar's eyes widened slightly at that realization. Was it possible the human was having the same thoughts as the dragon and had simply not said anything? Are we both just too afraid to simply ask the other one? Veledar thumped his tail against the floor once more, causing the room to rattle. Wouldn't that just be wonderful.

“So what did you and Gwen really get up to? I can't see you playing with dolls." Arcturus broke the silence thankfully. “Unless you were hiding this dark secret from me the entire time.

“Well I was not playing with it. She was showing me her doll, and talking about it. Than she went on to ask questions about the dragon life cycle."

“Oh gods you did not talk about......the birds and the bees did you?" he placed a hand to the bridge of his nose and let out a long drawn out sigh.

“What in the heavens is that?" Veledar moved his head back and cocked it. “Do you mean drakes and dragons? Like as in mating another dragon? Why would I tell a whelp so young about that Arcturus?

“Well I don't know with you sometimes. You are kind of don't have a filter sometimes." He laughed, patting the dragon on his shoulder. “Last thing we need is you going on about the... specifics with her."

“Well you should know me better than that Arcturus." he stuck his tongue out at the human with a grin. “Besides if anyone needs a lesson in drakes and dragons its you." He watched the human's face turn red again, as he felt that same feeling radiate through his own body in return. Excellent.

“Foods ready!" came the bellowing voice of Mary from downstairs, causing Veledar to perk his head up.

“Well we might as well go get some." Veledar rose to all fours, his every movement graceful as he padded over towards the door. He gave the air a great sniff, already finding the alluring aroma of cooking fish wafting into his nostrils. Another breath discovered the smell of pepper, garlic, and a hint of honey dashed in. He carefully placed his paws on each of the wooden steps leading downstairs, he did not need to trip down again. He followed the sweet scent of recently cut fruit, and freshly made bread.

He rounded the bottom of the stairs as he heard the sounds of the others right behind him. The first thing he noticed about the first floor, was that all the furniture had been moved to the edges of the room, as if someone had gone through the trouble of clearing the entire thing for him. He was thankful for this, as it meant they would not give him any trouble for his tail having a mind of it's own. His eyes were than drawn to the large table from before, now covered with a tan table cloth. Atop the table were plates, bowls, cups, and utensils all made of a dark brown wood. The bowls placed on the table were filled with red and green apples, oranges,and he think he even spied a banana. There was also two plates, one plate for sliced orange cheese, and another for apple slices.

Around the table sat all of his friends that were not upstairs. Lyndis was among them, having apparently returned from her meeting. It must have gone well, because she certainly did not look like she was in a sour mood. She was sipping a wooden mug while she seemed to be listening to Asterion. The bull was talking to Gus about something, and Gus had his elbows on the table with the palms of his hands on the bottom of his head. Veledar strolled over and settled down onto his haunches at a particularly large section of the table meant for himself. He looked down to find a large wooden plate, that was barren of any food. The others soon followed suit and sat down around the table and began to chat among themselves, Arcturus of course sat beside him.

Mary padded over towards the table, holding up a large plate of steaming cooked fish. Veledar breathed in and recognized the scent of cooked salmon, mixed with the pepper, and honey he had smelled before. Merlia was right beside her carrying another plate with two large loaves of bread. They both placed their respective plates in the middle of the table.

“Do I just dig in?" The dragon asked, watching the steam slowly curl over the fish, teasing him. He felt his stomach rumble, like a dagger thrust into it. He reached out with a paw and slowly went to spear a fish with a claw.

“No you wait to be served, like a good dragon!" Mary laughed, smacking his paw with the a large wooden fork.

Veledar instantly retracted his paw, and glared at the woman.

“Well wait your turn." She took the fork and plunged it into one of the cooked, and cleaned salmon and placed it onto Gwen's plate first. She did this each time to another one of his friends, until everyone had one of the delectable smelling things in front of them. However when it was time for Veledar she placed four of the fish on his plate, just as many as Krotos had gotten. With that done she took a knife and sliced the bread into pieces, and handed that out as well.

Veledar looked to all the mugs around the table, noticing they were all filled with what appeared to be with water. “Will we be having something besides water to drink?" he asked the woman, as he adjusted his tail to curl around the bottom of Arcturus' chair.

“Well are you not the impatient one." She placed her hands on her hip as she gave him an amused smile. “I was just about to ask if you wanted anything. Krotos there can't go a meal without having a whole bottle of wine."

“Guilty as charged." the gryphon laughed back, placing a talon to his blue feathered chest.

“Well I would than like some of your booze as well." Veledar held his head up, and resettled his wings.

“Well should I fetch you a mug then?" she gestured to his claws, “Although I suppose you are too big for one."

“Well he Could change down to size, or be a humanoid dragon." Arcturus swallowed a bite of bread. “But I guess that's out of the question?"

“Arcturus, Arcturus, Arcturus." he said, shaking his head slightly each time. “I spent the entire day as a human." He snaked his head so it was eye level with the cheerful human. “I would like to very much spend my time relaxing in my own body."

Arcturus held a hand up to his chin and cupped it, causing Veledar's frills to twitch. “You just have to make things difficult don't you." he laughed. “I would like some wine too if you don't mind Mary."

There was a collection of requests from the table for various ales, wines, or booze from the others.

“Okay, okay." Mary waved to them as she grabbed Merlia once again and went through the small door next to the kitchen area. “Crimson Sky, what should I put your drink into? I have pans, pots, or-

“Whatever is largest."

“Well large pot it is than! Now what kind of drink would you want to have? We have-"

“What does Krotos here drink? I will have whatever the blue kitty bird is going to have."

“Are you sure about that dragon?" Krotos gave him a smile, “What I drink is fairly strong. You might not be strong enough to indulge yourself."

Veledar gave a dismissive snort. Who did this kittybird think he was? He could certainly not fly away from a challenge like that. “Perhaps strong for a small kitty bird like yourself. I however am no small kittybird." He breathed in, letting his chest swell and his scales slightly clink.

Merlia came back moments later with a tray of mugs filled with the bitter smell of wine, mixed with berries. Mary was carrying in both hands a large pot, that had the same dark liquid swishing inside of it. She slowly strode over, and placed it carefully onto the table in front of him. He watched the liquid swirl inside the pot, but thankfully did not splash onto the table.

“Why thank you Mary." He rumbled, as he lowered his head towards the wine itself. He flared his nostrils as he took in the fruity smell of the liquid. He dipped his tongue into it next, and slurped up a mouthful of the tart tasting drink. He swished it around his snout, finding the taste not too unpleasant. He swallowed it down and felt a slight burning sensation trail down his neck. 'Well that certainly was delightful!" He exclaimed, turning to Krotos. “This is not that bad, perhaps your definition of strong is much different than mine!"

“Don't you worry Crimson Sky, it can often sneak up on the un-prepared." Krotos dipped his beak into a smaller bowl placed in front of him containing the same liquid. The gryphon pulled his head up, and slurped with his tongue, catching up the dripping liquid with a satisfied gasp.

Veledar next sampled the fish, taking one in his claw simply holding it high, letting it drop into his open muzzle. He could have just swallowed the hot fish whole, but were was the fun in that? He chewed it around in his snout, tasting the spicy pepper on his tongue, mixed with the sweet honey. His frills twitched in pleasure on their own, as he let out a small shiver. Next he speared an apple with one his claws, drawing a giggle from the little girl who was watching him. He held it up, letting the juices drip down his white talon for a moment as he gave her a large grin. He popped the apple into his mouth and devoured it in an instant. Not as tasteful as the fish, but an apple was still good, and it was certainly sweet.

“Gwen dear use your utensiles," came the stern voice of Mary.

“But Crimson Sky just used his claws!" Gwen pointed to him. She had grabbed her fish with her other hand.

“Well dear Crimson Sky is a dragon, you are not."

“Hmmph." Gwen crossed her arms and gave a little pout, as she sat back in her chair.

Veledar dipped his snout into the wine again and took a large gulp, before eating another one of the delectable fish again. He popped it into his mouth, and found himself cleaning his claws to get every drop of flavor from them. He sucked on each talon until it was clean, he laughed internally at himself since someone might think this act was lewd. He perked his head up at the conversations that had started around the table, filling the room with chatter. Arcturus was chatting to Gus about something they had done years ago in the guard. Something about drunk half-lings chasing people through the streets with things called pom-poms. Whatever those things are. He grabbed some cheese to focus on Merlia, who was talking to Krotos about flying. The kitty bird seemed to love the attention as his words dripped with narcissism. He watched Merlia take a sip of her drink, and her cheeks flush red.

“So Crimson Sky, do you eat like dis often?" came the inquisitive small voice of Gwen, who was currently chewing on a slice of an apple.

“No my dear, it was not until rather recently I had company of any sort. Dragons generally live alone.. although sometimes we get visitors." His thoughts went to the gryphons that used to visit him, than to the time Arcturus came and attacked him. Wow I do not see that many people.

“That sounds really sad, and lonely." She took a drink from her mug of water, “You should be happy."

Well after this adventure of mine, I think I will be less lonely. “Well I imagine all of my friends here will visit me in my lair." he smiled, “So I won't be entirely alone after all." Especially if Arcturus visited him. He imagined flying in the air with the human once again, the breeze against his face.

“Could I come visit your lair? I have never seen the home of a dragon before!" She turned to Mary, “Oh mom could I?"

“Could you what dear?"

“Can I visit Crimson Sky sometime at his home? Oh please mom, could I?"

Mary glared slightly at Veledar, “Perhaps one day when said dragon is not on the run. Than we can talk about visiting him.. Crimson Sky were is your home anyway?"

“Well I suppose it is now close to the town you call Drakenburg." He replied, wrinkling his snout. To my utter irritation. His mood darkened as thoughts of his mother surfaced, and he lowered his head.

“Whats the matter? Did I hit a nerve?" Mary cocked her head, “Is that town filled with arseholes?"

“It has some unpleasant memories now." He said softly, “and I would not really like to discuss them this evening." His head rose, and his voice once again took on it's usual confident tone. “ I would rather much focus on more pleasing things." Like getting Arcturus to suck my cock. He widened his eyes, Well what did I expect? like Alcohol was going to stop these thoughts. He shrugged and took another sip of the mind effecting drink. Doo do doo. Arcturus sucking my cock.

“Gods, I will have to keep up!" squawked Krotos, as the gryphon took another beakfull of wine. “I cannot have the dragon beat me on my own stuff!"

“Well my apologies Crimson Sky, I will refrain from mentioning that town then. So what should we really discuss than?"

“How about how Lyndis is the princess of Drenedar?" He let out a large burp that radiated around the room, and caused others to giggle or laugh. Wait was that a secret?

“Shes a what!?" cried Gus,Mary, and Krotos all in unison.

“Thanks Crimson Sky." Lyndis grumbled, taking a sip from her drink. She leaned back in her chair as the others turned their attention to her. “Yea I am a princess, can't you tell?" She brushed her hair from her eyes, “I just don't go around blabbing it all the time like our big red secret spoiler." She gestured to the dragon with her mug.

“My humble apologies for the drab accommodations my lady." Mary gave a bow to the half-elf. “You can of course stay in our room if you wish."

“No,no,no." Lyndis gestured for Mary to get back up. “I don't tell people cause I don't want to be treated any different. So you just treat me like them." She gestured to Veledar and the others with a sweep of her left hand. “You understand Mary? I ran away and gave that life up."

“Why did you do that? I think being a princess would be neat." Gwen chimed in.

Veledar snickered to himself as Lyndis had to explain how she had run away to everyone. The want of freedom, how she hated responsibility, and how she wanted something more. Veledar thought it sounded a tad cliche as he munched on some bread, but he ignored it with a shrug of his shoulders.

“So that explains that whole thing, but I want to know about that little orb of light of yours Merlia." Gus laughed, “You should have seen it honey." He turned to Mary, “There was a pony there one second, than poof, it was gone."

“Oh ya mean Ulga?" Merlia turned towards the stairs, and cupped her hands to her mouth. “Ulga!" she shouted out. She held up one of her hand and extended her pointer. “Hold on a moment, sometimes shes shy. Course she could jus be playin wit me. Sometimes she can be such a kidder."

From upstairs came the small little orb. It danced and swirled as it moved through the air, floating several feet off of the floor. It soared towards Merlia, before deciding at the last second to do a circle over the table overhead. Ulga did a second pass around the table before slowly coming over to orbit around Merlia's finger. “Dis ere is Ulga." she proudly said, as Mary, Krotos, and Gwen gasped.

“She is so pretty!" Gwen cried out,practically bouncing out of her chair, “Can I hold her?" She thrust out her arms and opened her palms.

“Dat be up ta Ulga here. How about it , ya want ta visit da wee child over dere?" She pointed towards Gwen. “She doesn't bite Ulga." she chuckled as the orb slowly flew from her finger and towards the little girl.

Ulga nestled right into Gwen's palms, causing a smile to sprout forth onto her face. “She is warm!" she said with bated breath. “She kind of tickles!" Gwen giggled as Ulga rolled up her arms and onto her shoulder. “What is she doing now?"

“Shes getting a good look at ya." Merlia took a swig from her mug. “She likes ta do dat from time ta time.

“So Merlia." Veledar said loudly, “I would certainly like to know were you found the little glowing spirit over there. I am almost certain my hirelings would as well. I think you have been with us long enough to warrant a story." Or three.

“Ooooo!" Gwen cave a happy croon. “I love stories!"

“Is it a salacious story?" Krotos raised an eyebrow.

“No ya dirty bird." Merlia laughed, “those can wait till afta da wee one is in bed."

“What does salacious mean?" Gwen turned to ask her mother.

“It means a story that is meant for grownups, or gryphons, and I perhaps dragons." Mary replied quickly.

“So dere I was roamin tru da forest near me old home." Merlia lowered her voice and held up her arms. “I had jus been kick out a few days before." she waved her hand, “Not important to da story, cover it anoter time. Anywhoo it was about one hundred forty years ago. I was feelin down o' course, draggin meh feet true da dirt." Merlia held up two fingers and placed them onto her palm and dragged them against it.

“Kind of hard to see you dragging your feet in the dirt." Veledar snarked.

“Well I was ya baby. It was a hard time for meh. Now back to da story." She held up her hands once again, “I stumbled onta a part of da forest I had neva seen before. Plants dat hung from trees of so many different colors. Dey seemed ta be callin me name as I walked towards em. Now I know wut ur tinkin, Merlia why did ya go to da voices, dat sounds like bad plan." She took a drink of her wine again, than wiped her mouth with her hand. “Ya'd be right most o da time, but I wasn't tinkin clearly at da time. So I followed da feelin inta da place. So I collapse a time later among all da strange plants dat started ta curl around meh. I was so tired, so jus done." Merlia's face darkened and lowered her voice to almost a whisper, “It was my lowest moment I tink, almost taught about enden it right dere."

“dats wen I saw her. Floatin ta me like a little angel." She gestured to Ulga, who was orbiting around Gwen's head. “She flew roun meh, inspecting meh, and changin colors. I felt so happy wen she was around, and dat pit in meh stomach vanished.

“But why call her a girls name?" Veledar snorted.

“Cause I taught she was a lost friend of mine. Returned ta meh as a spirit. Den when I went ta leave da little Ulga wouldn leave meh alone. I was like her mother! No matter wut I did she kept comin after meh." Merlia shrugged, “Wut was a dwarf ta do? I just kept walkin and let da spirit follow me." She placed a thumb on her chin, “It was den I vowed to be da best explorer in the land, and forget me clans exile. If dey wanted ta do that, I'd make da best of it."

“Tell us more about your exile!" Krotos practically shouted, wine springing forth from his beak to coat the table. “Oh, sorry about that." the gryphon laughed, and grabbed a rag to start cleaning his spittle.

“Nah it be a tale for anoter time." Merlia took a drink. “I agree wit da dragon here. Only good stories for tonight!"

“Well if we are going to be telling good stories, I have one that involves Gus over there. It may also have something in similar to Veledar's tale of Arcturus.

Veledar stretched his neck back, and raised one of his eyebrows. “And what would that be kitty bird?"

“Gus likes to scream as well. Well during flying I mean, not during the …..." Krotos coughed, and than dipped his beak into his drink to silence himself.

“You screamed Gus?" grinned the dragon as he turned his head to the now reddening guard. From the drink or from the mention of him screaming the dragon did not know, or care. “I may want to now see who can scream louder, Arcturus here or his friend Gus? Course I would bet my scales it's my little human here that can scream the loudest." Veledar wrapped a wing slightly around Arcturus and pulled him closer. Although I would prefer you to be screaming something else. My name for instance. He laughed, and took another sip from his wine. He frowned slightly as the pot was almost empty at this point. I will of course need to get some more.

“What? I had never gone flying before." Gus stammered, “It can't be helped if I may have shouted a tad."

“You screamed Gus, so loud I thought I would nearly go deaf."

“Nonsense, it couldn't have been that loud." Gus took another sip.

“Trust me, it was loud enough I thought there was a nearby gryphoness who had reached an orgaas........" Krotos suddenly stopped, his gaze returning to Gwen, than back to his drink. “Perhaps this was not the best idea to do before Gwen goes down into her nest.

“Oh I coulda told ya dat!" Merlia cried, smacking her hand against the table three times in rapid succession. “Lets get a randy gryphon, and an accident prone dragon drunker den da nine hells, wut could possibly go wrong!?"

“Heyyyyyyyy. I am certainly not accident prone! You just place things all in my way!" Veledar raised his snout and looked away. “Besides I am most graceful in the air anyway.

“Only because dey dont' build tings dat high for ya to smash inta!"

_ If only I were closer I would boop you so hard on your little dwarven head._ Veledar narrowed his eyes as his friend continued her cackling.

“Well when we had finished the flight, Gus was hugging the ground for ten minutes thanking Thor for a safe landing."

Everyone let out a lout bout of laughter as the stories continued. Veledar found himself biting his tongue, as he did not want to share the story about the gryphons while the little Gwen was up. He was most certain her parents would not appreciate him going into detail all that had happened that night. He ate the rest of his meal in silence, and slurping up the rest of his wine. He found himself licking the thing clean for several moments before his attention was pulled with Mary coughing loudly.

“Can I help you Crimson Sky? You seem to have fallen madly in love with out pot there. Should I perhaps leave you two alone? She grinned, as he licked in one motion around his snout.

“Well if you kindly, I would like some more of this booze you provided me."

“I would like some as well dearest!" Krotos cried out, as he the gryphon had now taken a seat beside Merlia on his haunches. She had a hand curled around the bottom of his beak and seemed to be talking to him about something. However his attention was pulled away as Mary returned with another pot of the delicious wine he had been slurping on all night.

“Well if we are telling embarrassing stories, how about we tell that Arcturus and I were in the military and he mistook some gryphon's for females." Gus burped, his face now bright red.

_ Sounds like Arcturus and I may have had more similar stories than I thought._

“Gus, this may not be the time or place!" Arcturus laughed as his face also had taken on a crimson shade. He raised his mug to his lips, and gave a loud slurp as he emptied it. “Besides that was supposed to remain a secret!"

“I am real good at keeping secrets!" Gwen suddenly added, “Just like I know dad, mom, and Krotos like to wrestle. Although he seems to be the best at it since he always ends up on top."

The room suddenly went dead silent, as the little girl finished eating her meal. Everyone turned to Gus, who's face now matched Veledar's scales in color and intensity. “Well I think it might be time for your bed darling." laughed Gus, as he picked up his plate and cleaned it off.

Well I certainly did not expect that. Well I suppose I did, Gryphons are quite promiscuous. Heck they would practically jump into the act at a mere suggestion. To a gryphon the act of mating was as casual as a hello. I am just surprised the mated pair were so eager to let the gryphon express his behavior on themselves.

Gwen was whisked to her room by Gus, as she waved good night to everyone. Gus brought her swiftly up the stairs, as Veledar heard her ask why everyone went silent over wrestling. “It's ok if you lose dad, hes much bigger than you."

Now I get the screamed during something else comment. Veledar let out a snicker of laughter as he tilted his neck down, took another slurp of his wine, and twitched his tail. He felt it catch on Arcturus' chair, but the human was fast enough and caught himself from falling over. His hand hit the table with a slam, and rattled all of the dishes.

“Watch you freakin tail Veledar!" The human playfully punched his scales, “Your going to make me fall for you...I mean because of you." He smacked his mug slightly against his scales, “You know what I mean." The wine inside the cup swished around and some of it splashed onto the dragon's scales. “Oh, sorry about that."

“It does not matter." Veledar licked his scales with his tongue slowly. He made sure to look up and lock eyes with Arcturus. He saw the human shiver slightly as he ran his pink tongue up and down his scales. When he was finished he licked his lips with a smack. “You know if you want to make it up to me you could pet my scales."

“W-waht?" Arcturus stammered, face still red. “N-Now why would I go about doing that?"

Because your dragon ordered you to do it? “Well it is pleasant experience for me, and you spilled your wine on my beautiful scales. Consider this a payment on the long list of items you still owe me."

“That tab has not gone away yet?" Arcturus laughed, setting his mug down on the table with a thud.

“It certainly has not, and besides I think you would rather enjoy petting me anyway. You already know how warm and comfortable I can be." Veledar lowered his snout so it was closer to his human. “Well go on than, don't be shy."

Arcturus reached out after a moment of hesitation, and placed his hand softly on Veledar's nose. His touch was warmer than usual. Probably from the wine. Veledar smiled, as he savored the feeling. He nuzzled himself against the human's palm. Causing Arcturus to laugh slightly.

“Well you certainly like that don't you?"

“Yes, Veledar flared his nostrils and playfully snorted air onto his hand. “Well go on, its not really petting if your not rubbing it."

“Your not tricking me into something dirty are you?"

Veledar nuzzled his palm harder this time, giving the human a slight purr. “Why would you want to get tricked into something dirty?

Arcturus blushed brighter than ever at that comment, or from the wine, Veledar knew not which. He did not care and continued to nuzzle against the human's hand. Arcturus ran his hand up Veledar's muzzle, towards his blue eyes and back down.

Veledar continued to rumble, as he leaned into the touch. “Have you done this before Arcturus? I think I may ask you to do this again."

“Can I work off all my debt this way?

“I may have to think on it." He sighed, “If your touch is this pleasant." Or we can work out a different arrangement. He grinned to himself. “You may touch my snout frills if you wish." Veledar flexed his frills back and forth, as he tilted his head and showed them off.

Arcturus raised his brow, but did what was asked. He put a hand on the frill on the left side of the dragon, then gently stroked it. His softness was divine against the sensitive tan membranes. Veledar gave out a pleased moan as he leaned into the hand.

“Veledar you better be just enjoying this in the normal way." Arcturus laughed, as Veledar continued to lean into his hand.

“Oh please Arcturus it would take more than a little frill petting to get me excited." Veledar narrowed his eyes to pleased blue slits. He let out another long drawn out moan. Although perhaps with an extended session of this he could.

“Good because I wont be seduced into doing anything lewd with you."

“Who mentioned doing anything lewd with me? Your the one with the dirty mind Arcturus."

“Well I suppose your right, besides if you were lets say enjoying yourself its not like you could hide it." Arcturus gestured to the dragon's slit.

“I am enjoying myself, just not in that way at the moment." Veledar let out a happy sigh as Arcturus started to caress his frill in a slow circular motion. Perhaps later though.

“You know, I think I may have you melting in the palm of my hands." laughed Arcturus, as he lifted his other hand and started rubbing the other frill.

_ I'll say_ .“ooooohhhhhhhh." Veledar murmered, warm, soothing pleasuring radiating from both sides of his head now. “That is excellent......"

“Ok I am back!" Gus said loudly, clasping his hands together as he took his seat once more at the table. His view turned to Arcturus, and the moaning dragon in his grasp. “Did I miss something here? Why is Crimson Sky all moaning?

Veledar wrinkled his muzzle as Arcturus pulled his hands away from his snout, and returned his attention to the others. Curse you Gus. Veledar narrowed his eyes. I will certainly have to get Arcturus to do that again. It was..._Veledar shivered. _So niiceee.

“Well since you so rudely interrupted a good frill rubbing of mine. I hesitate to tell my story about the gryphons I knew." Veledar took another slurp from his pot, and held his head high.

“You knew other gryphons?" Krotos asked, cocking his beak to the side. “How, why, and what did you do?'

_ Essentially everything_. “Wouldn't you like to know little kittybird." Veledar grinned, showing off all of his sharp white teeth.

“No! I want ta here dat story! I been waiten all da damn time since ya mentioned it!" Merlia pounded her fist against the table, laughing loudly. “Ya can't keep a gurl waitin like dis dragon! I wanta know all da little lewd details!"

“I actually second that motion. Despite it sounding like it is going to turn into a dirty focken story I would wish to hear it." Lyndis added leaning back into her chair.

Asterion just gave a snort in reply, chugging down his drink.

“Well since the ice has already been broken, I would not mind a story about gryphon and dragon relations." Gus laughed, followed by Mary. “Since living with Krotos over there we can figure were this story goes."

“Besides, I would like to hear about Dragon mating habits." Mary laughed into her drink.

Arcturus rolled his eyes and got up, and headed towards the back room. He clutched his mug firmly in one hand.

“Were ya goin lad? The dragon was gonna start da tale about dose gryphons of his! Surely ya don't want ta miss it!" Merlia chuckled, “or are ya tryin ta hide from it!?"

“I'm getting more to drink, I am not drunk enough to hear that particular story!" Arcturus returned with his mug, practically overflowing with the dark wine. He took a seat, and placed his mug onto the table, causing some to spill onto the wood. He raised the mug to his mouth and took a good ten second chug of the wine. He held up his other hand and rotated it slightly, “You may proceed with your lewd story."

Excellent. “Well it all started when I met these two gryphons around my cave one day." Veledar spread his wings slightly. “I angled my wings, and swooped into greet them. As they had decided to take a hunt in MY territory. They seemed shocked I was there, you should have seen them shivering in their feathers." Veledar chuckled in the back of his throat. “So I swelled my chest a-"

“What were dere names lad?"

“I have not gotten to that part yet!" He hissed, curling his neck to look at Merlia. “Now as I was saying, I swelled my chest and gave them a proper dragon greeting. Now you can imagine this was the wrong thing to do, as they nearly wet themselves. Veledar twitched his tail as he remembered their terror filled pleas.

“Don't kill us great dragon." The golden feathered one had said almost in tears, later Veledar learned his name was Rundak.

The other one was called Vik, and he had stood their trembling. His eyes full of fear, as the dragon had slowly approached.

“So I told them they needed to pay my toll to stay safely in the surrounding area." Veledar resettled his wings and placed a paw to his scaled chest. “You should have seen them think it over, and offered something I had not expected. They had offered to pleasure me instead of using coin or goods." Veledar chuckled, “I had heard of Gryphons openness, but this was a first for me."

“Really, you expect us ta believe da gryphons jus went and bent ova for ya?" Merlia raised an eyebrow skeptically. “Dat seems mighty strange dere."

“Not really there Merlia, if you go ahead and ask our blue feathered friend there, he can tell you about the openness among gryphons." He gestured to Krotos, “To them Sex is as simple as a hello."

“You say that like your any different!" Krotos cried out his voice cracking.

“We will take an offer for it dearest kitty bird, but it certainly is not the first thing we go to. We of course show more restraint than that."

“Not from wut I've seen." Merlia laughed, taking a sip and gesturing to Arcturus with her eyes. “Huntin o course Crimson Sky." Arcturus did not seem to catch the woman's eyes, as he seemed focused on downing his drink as fast as he could.

“Best slow down dere lad! Ya goin ta be more wine den lad!"

Arcturus held up his finger as he finished off the rest of his wine, setting the mug on the table and letting out a loud burp. “Dats Dee Idea!" he slurred, trying it seemed to do an Merlia impression.

“Oh ya tink its' funny do ya?"

“Aye I do!"

Merlia crossed her arms, and grinned. “Well I've hurd worse o course. Ya make a fine dwarf laddie!"

“Thank ya lass, I certainly aim ta please!" Arcturus laughed, giving a slight bow and nearly falling out of his chair. He caught himself on the table, causing it to rattle.

“HAH, ya best slow down lad, or ya goin ta be worse den Crimson Sky ere in wrekin stuff!"

“WELL as I was saying!" Veledar said in a loud brassy voice. “They were certainly eager to please, so I brought them to my lair. No sense in doing the deed as it were out in the open, where any hunter could take advantage of us." He remembered back to the flight that had been full of silence, as the two gryphons seemed unsure of what they were doing. Rundak however had seemed thrilled at the idea.

“I've never mated with a dragoness before." Rundak curled his beak into a grin. “I will certainly show you what a gryphon is made of my dear." He cave a soft coo, as his eyes had filled with lust.

_ ** Female!?** The thought had raced through his mind. Oh he was certainly going to get a surprise. Veledar just did his best giggle in a feminine voice._

“We made it back to my cave, and the one called Rundak was quite eager to get started. He however informed me that the two were a mated pair. I did not mind this at all, but Rundak had assumed I was female...."

“He did what?" Arcturus gasped, standing up to go get more of the wine.

“He taut ya was a gurl!?" Merlia laughed, “Well I guess without the proper bits dats understandable!" She gestured to the dragon's hindquarters.

“Just because you lot ran around with your genitalia flapping in the wind, does not mean we have to." Veledar stuck his tongue out as the dwarf, causing another laugh. “I mean look at Asterion, he has to have a loin cloth so it's not flapping every which way while he moves."

“At least I am not mistaken for a female." the bull chuckled, taking a large gulp of wine, some spilled out of his mug and dripped down his beard.

“Well Arcturus never mistook me for a female. He knew right away that I was a male." He held his head up proudly, and curled his tail around him.

“Dats probably cause da human took a peek wen ya was knocked out on da ship!" Merlia mimed opening his slit and peakin his head into look.

Could that have happened? The thought was laughable, Although what if I did have him reach down in there? Veledar gave a pleasured rumble at the idea.

“It's because I was taught how to identify dragons!" Arcturus slurred, slowly making it back to his seat with a few stumbles. “Sorry Mary." he said, looking back to the small driplets of wine he had dribbled all of the floor.

“Don't worry." she waved towards Arcturus, eyes not swaying from Veledar.

“Ya I bet ya know how ta identify a dragon. Yer probably know what a dragon cock looks like too!" She laughed, taking a large sip of what was left of her wine. She gave a loud belch and set the mug down.

“Only because some of the books had dragon anatomy in them! Arcturus dismissively waved his hand, “I only skimmed through those parts of course. You don't need to know how to handle....er...identify a dragon's cock to fight it."

_ HAH I knew it! He did spend some time on those pages!_ Veledar rumbled softly in the back of his throat. His frills gave a pleased twitch at that thought. Oh Arcturus such thoughts exist below the surface. Let me be the one to free them.

“I don't know, I imagine some dragons would be more manageable if you had a boot to their cocks." Lyndis laughed, “It would certainly keep Crimson Sky here in line from time to time."

“So your saying you want to touch my cock?" He gave a large tooth filled grin, as he turned his snout to her.

“Very funny Crimson Sky, but you know well I meant kicking it if you misbehaved.

_ Ouch!_ He almost moved his claw to defend his slit at the mere thought. “Well that certainly would be rude of you." he stuck his tongue out at her. “To get a poor dragon all aroused, than kick him in the maleness."

“Only if he was misbehaving!"

“Get back ta da story!" Merlia pounded her fist on the table slightly. “Ya keep changin da topic, an I wan ta hear it!"

“Why Merlia, the story of two gryphons having sex with a dragon have you on the edge of your seat?" Krotos leaned towards the dwarf, and raised his eye brow. “Or is it just the gryphon part?

“Oh look at you, ya tink I get all hot and bothered at every handsome gryphon like yerself in stories?"

“handsome?" the gryphon gave an intrigued trill, and shifted his body so he was seated on his haunches practically rubbing up against the dwarf with his feathers, causing Merlia's to blush a deeper red then before.

Enough of this! “Well back to my story!" Veledar gave another hiss, drawing everyone's attention. “So since I was pretending to be a girl I suggested that Rundak pleasure me with his beak. To which he was very keen on that prospect. I imagine he thought it would lead to him pounding my slit. His mate on the other hand did not want to be left out, so he went to taking care of Rundak's other end."

He remembered the gryphon practically drowning himself in his slit, tongue rotating around. The gryphon had given out a purr as he swallowed Veledar's slits moistness. It was as if the gryphon had been without water for days, and Veledar's slit was his relief. Veledar held the gryphon's head slightly in his claws, preparing for the moment that he was sure would surprise the kitty bird.

While Veledar had moaned, and his cock started to grow. Vik had not been idle during this time, the brown gryphon had mounted his mate and swiftly thrust into Rundak's eager backside. With each thrust of his mate, Rundak was pushed more and more into Veledar's slit, to the gryphons moaning approval. That's when he felt the gryphon's tongue swirl around the tip of his cock still within his slit. He remembered the gryphon struggling slightly and looking up into his eyes. “That's right little kitty bird" Veledar had groaned, his cock slowly growing into the gryphon's widening beak. “I am NOT a FEMALE."

_ Rundak squirmed for what could only be called a token resistance, before he was eagerly bobbing up and down on Veledar's exposed organ, illecting a loud moan from the dragon as his cock was tended to. Rundak traced every ridge with his tongue slowly, sending shivers down Veledar's spine. He gasped as the gryphon's tongue circled his cock head's slit and lapped up the small dollops of precum. The gryphon then grasped it firmly within his soft paws, and started stroking softly, practically trying to milk Veledar for his white treasure within._

“So while Rundak was eating me out, I held his head. So you can imagine his surprise when my ridged cock soon was dominating his mouth." Veledar smiled, “Although he did not seem to mind of course, and was soon going at as if he needed my essence to live." Veledar snorted, and held a claw to his chest. “I of course gave him what he wanted, and the little kitty bird swallowed all that I was willing to give.

_ He remembered his tail twitching, his claws slightly digging into the gryphon's head. “Now be a …....good kitty …......and drink it all." He groaned out, as his climax reached it's peak. His entire body shuttered as his claws twitched, and he flooded the gryphon's eager beak with his essence. Veledar continued to groan as he felt Rundak start to swallow everything , not even slowing down. The dragon took pride in the moan from Rundak, muffled by his cock. Vik on the other end, gave a screech of victory as he thrust down to the hilt, spread his wings wide, and gave a few last deep thrusts into his mates rear as he no doubt planted his seed._

Veledar let go of Rundak's head, the gryphon pulled off the cock with a pop, and a soft moan. “You did not seem to mind that little gryphon." Veledar chuckled, as the gryphon gasped. His beak still dripping thin treads of dragon essence.

_ “That.....tasted.....incredible..." Rundak gasped in ragged breaths. He released another moan as Vik rotated his hips and drove himself deeper into his mate._

_ “I think I might like to see you pleasure a dragon more often." Vik cooed, nuzzling the gryphon below him. “You were quite the little submissive Hen."_

_ “You should try his cum than, it was nearly orgasmic on it's own." Rundak gave a rumbling purr._

_ “Than I hope you are ready for the next round than." Veledar chuckled, “Since I have not taken my toll from you yet." He thrust a digit towards Vik, as his cock continued to bob, dripping onto the cave floor. “Now bend over little kitty. So I can show you how mating is meant to be done."_

“Oh no." Vik cave a half hearted exclamation, as he dismounted his partner and presented himself on all fours. The gryphon moved his tail to the side, and curled his head back towards Veledar with a grin plastered on his beak, “How unfortunate of me, that I find myself with a horny dragon. Whatever will I do?"

_ ** Get pounded to the cavern floor.** “How unfortunate indeed little kitty bird." Veledar padded over to the gryphon, and grabbed his rear with a firm claw. He opened his mouth, and snaked his tongue out to lick the kitty birds tail-star. It tasted musky but not all too pleasant. He figured gryphons did like to keep themselves clean after all. He continued to lick as Vik arched his back and moaned aloud. His tail twitched suddenly, batting against Veledar's head as his tongue continued it's work. He circled, and circled, and teased the gryphon with each passing minute. He wondered how long he could keep the gryphon like this, how long until he melted in pleasure._

_ “P-please." Vik gasped out through his latest collection of gasps and moans._

“Please what?" Veledar retracted his snout, than gave a long slow lick back up the gryphons tail-hole. He internally cackled with glee as the gryphon's entire body shivered in delight.

_ “P-please fuck me."_

_ “Well if you insist." Veledar released the gryphon, and took his place above him. He watched the gryphon below him start to breath in deeply as Veledar took a firm grip with one of his paws. “Now brace yourself kitty. This might be a s------tretch." He thrust in slowly and firmly, spreading the gryphon's hole wide below him. They both let out entwined moans of lust, as Veledar felt his cock squeezed tight . He forced himself to remain in control as he slowly pushed further in, stretching the gryphon out inch by pleasurable inch. There was no need to injure him after all. He came to a stop, as Vik gave a large moan._

_ “There, now relax for a moment while you adjust." He gave the back of the gryphon's neck a long lick with his tongue, causing Vik to shutter below him._

_ “Well how can I let this go un -attended?" Rundak rumbled and took a seat in front of his mate. He placed his paws on either side of Vik's head and guided him to his own exposed red barbed cock. “There now, you enjoyed seeing me dominated so much. I figure I will do the same." The gryphon chuckled as Vik eagerly downed his mate's cock, going straight down to the hilt._

_ Veledar took that as a cue, and pulled back everything but the tip of his ridged cock. Than in one firm thrust, pushed it all the way back inside. He groaned out as Vik shut his eyes and gave a muffled cry around his mate's cock._

“Shhhhh." Rundak whispered, carassing Vik's head softly.

_ Veledar continued with another firm thrust, one right after the other. Each one illicing more and more pleasured muffled, moans from the gryphon. He started to increase his tempo, each thrust picking up strength as he worked himself into a frenzy. His claws dug into the cavern floor as he roughly humped harder and harder into the gryphon. Each impact brought the soft feeling of the gryphon's fur, and his cock to be squeezed ever so wonderfully. His nostrils flared as he snorted, he could feel the rising climax starting over again. This was going to be bigger than the last time, it took all his effort to not try and shove his knot into the gryphon below him. THAT was for someone special. Instead he battered the growing section of his cock against the gryphon's rear his climax once again neared his peak._

_ He arched his back, spread his wings, and rose his tail, as he gave three large forceful thrusts into the gryphon, dug his claws further into the cave, and let out an earsplitting roar of victory. Each thrust delivered large bursts of dragon essense, deep within the gryphon. Whose eyes had practically rolled into the back of his head, as he came just from Veledar's own powerful orgasm. Veledar continued to thrust lightly, as the two gryphons below him gave their own cries of bliss. He curled his snout down and licked the gryphon's beak. “There now you have paid your toll."_

_ “That was.....incredible." Vik gasped, as he gave a pleasured sigh as Veledar thrust lightly again within him. “Can we pay another fee next week?" Vik gave the dragon a small smirk, and squeezed his rear around Veledar's cock. The dragon let out a pleasured moan._

_ “I am sure we can work something out." He rumbled, licking the gryphon's beak._

“Well what happened next ya bloody lizard!" Merlia shouted, slamming her fist on the table.

Veledar blinked his eyes as he was pulled from the memory. He briefly flashed his eyes downward. Oh thank gods I did not flag from that. “What were you saying Merlia? I got distracted."

“No doubt ya were tinkin of what happened! Share wit us! Some of us want ta know!" she banged her fist against the table once more.

“Well I than took the other gryphon, and pounded him on my cavern floor. Where I reached a most excellent orgasm." Veledar grinned. “I also learned my essence tastes exceptionally good to non dragons. I believe the words were orgasmic, than later followed by addicting." Veledar chuckled, “They both spent the night, and were practically begging to suck my cock in the morning." He threw his head back and let out a laugh.

“Well did they do that?" Mary laughed, her face just crimson like Veledar's scales at this point.

“What do you think?" Veledar lowered his snout once more, and gave her a mischievous grin. This caused her to let out a giggle and finish off her drink.

“Well knock me over, now I have heard the entire damn story" Arcturus set his mug down once again, his eyes glazed over from the drink. Apparently he had gotten up for a third drink while the dragon was remembering the past. The human held a fist to his mouth as he let out a long and loud belch. Veledar swiveled his head towards Merlia and Krotos, as the others started laughing and talking about other lewd things. He swore he heard something about a pegasus.

“Well I liked the story." Krotos cood softly to Merlia. “It was quite erotic."

“Oh ya tink so, ya cute Gryphon." She tapped his beak with one of her fingers. “I see dat look in yer eye ya got dere."

“What look?" Krotos said trying to play innocent, by shaking his head and putting a talon to his feathers.

“Don't play dumb birdy. I can see da wheels turnin in ya brain. Ya tink just cause yer handsome, and ya make me so wet I could slide all the way to me room, that I would just bend over for ya and take it like a good little hen." She jabbed her finger again into his beak, and moved her face close to his own. “You'd be right." she whispered, cupping the gryphon's head as he gave her a purr.

“So ta yer nest den? I can show ya how I tame beasts." She ran a hand through his blue feathers, causing Krotos to give her a lustful glance with his eyes. “Just let me show ya a little dwarven Subtlety in action lad." She turned to the others, and loudly said. “Krotos needs ta show me his nest. Some tings of interest in dere."

Veledar heard Krotos chuckle , and thump his tail against the floor. The others just laughed and continued on with their conversation. Veledar could smell his rising lust, as the gryphon was no doubt flagging. Well that was interesting. He arched his neck back, and resettled his wings. He watched the dwarf and gryphon rise from the table, and rush carefully to the stairs. I'll have to tease Merlia about this little predicament in the morning. He cocked his head as he wondered if gryphon's and dwarves could reproduce. He wrinkled his snout at the idea of bearded gryphons with the attitude of Merlia. He pictured them with feathers that matched Merlia's hair. They were taunting him with that speech pattern of hers. He shivered at the thought, his scales rustling softly. Gods I hope they can't. Although by the look Krotos was giving Merlia,and the playful nip he gave her behind on the way up the stairs, they were certainly going to find out.

Veledar continued to take in conversation was the night wound down. Gus and Mary went to their room with little whispers, followed by giggles. Did he get everyone aroused at his story? He chuckled, as he finally walked away from the table with his tail swaying back and forth. He passed the couch, which now had the form of Asterion plopped down onto it, snores loudly filling the room. Veledar gave the bullman's loin cloth a look with his eyes. It was not hard all he had to do was take peak. He shook his head, and kept walking. He gave out a yawn, and covered it with one of his paws. He could feel the weight of the day slowly pulling him down to sleep, as his claws clicked on the stairs down to the basement. He took pride in himself as he did not trip this time down them, he rubbed the top of his head as it throbbed with a phantom pain. He gave another yawn as he reached the dimly lit floor, and found the spot where Arcturus had placed his things previously in the day.

The human had his pack propped up against the wall, with the flap unbuckled and open on top. He had thrown down a bedroll to no doubt try and sleep on. Veledar chuckled and settled down onto it. If your sleeping anywhere Arcturus it is firmly within my claws. He drummed his tail as he noticed he was alone, and with Asterion passed out, Merlia no doubt taming a gryphon, and Lyndis upstairs. He wondered, Am I going to get Arcturus to myself? He almost bounded up, and jumped onto his paws at the thought. He did however give a large smile, as the human slowly came down the stairs. Arcturus' feet touched the stone, and he stumbled his way over to Veledar. How much did he have to drink? Veledar cocked his head, and moved his snout to catch the human before he fell down.

“I think I may have had too much to drink!" Arcturus gave a happy cry, as he leaned against the dragon's head. “Thanks for catching me."

Veledar pushed the human up with his head, until he could stand on his own. “You should be more relaxed like this all the time. I have to say it looked like you were even having fun." He retracted his head, and thumped his tail as Arcturus got closer.

“Well I did have fun Veledar, even despite the lewd story you told." He chuckled, holding a hand to Veledar's snout, the dragon leaned into the warm touch. He let out a loud rumble, as he sat up onto his haunches, his tail curling around him.

“You sound like you have stones rustling around in there." Arcturus now started to rub the dragon's nose, than trailing under to his chin. He started scratching there, causing Veledar to give him another rumble of approval.

“Are you going to start purring now?"

“Do you want me to?" Veledar replied, giving now a loud throaty purr. Causing Arcturus to laugh, but continue with his scratching. The human than moved his touch towards the side of Veledar's snout, his hands once again finding the sensitive frills from before. “Oh yes get there." Veledar moaned softly, as Arcturus started rubbing them in circles. He leaned further into the softness of his human's touch. My human. The thought filled him with such fuzziness, he thought it might simply spill out of him. Among other things. He gave another pleasured moan at the divine touch being administered to his frills. The human was so close to him now, and there was no one around. He could feel his heartbeat quicken as he imagined what could lie in store form them both within the next few minutes.

_ Should I simply just tell him? Should I plant a kiss on his mouth, and hold him tight? Should I say something seductive?_ His mind raced with his pulse picking up, and he gave another moan, and still the human continued to rub him. He couldn't help it, the thoughts, the drink, the story from before. He felt his arousal growing, and soon the cool air as his dragonhood rose from his slit like a tower of lust. He let out a gasp as Arcturus continued to stroke and caress him, having moved onto his neck.

“You really like this don't you?" the human gave a soft chuckle, as Veledar let out another pleased hiss. The dragon just nodded, as his maleness grew with each pulse of his heart. Until he felt Arcturus stop, he gave an inquisitive “hmm." As he shifted his snout to look down. The paladin had stopped, and his eyes had locked onto the twitching dripping sight of his ridged maleness. Veledar took pleasure that Arcturus did not run away, he did not yell, he did not say anything at all. He simple seemed dumbstruck as his eyes looked up to Veledar.

The dragon slowly lowered his head, careful not to spook Arcturus. This was a critical moment, everything could be lost or gained right now. “So Arcturus." he said softly, a small rumble rising in his chest.

The human did not let him finish as he rose his left hand to shut his mouth, and he felt Arcturus grasp the head of his cock in the other. Veledar gave out a muffled moan at the soft touch. Yeeeeeesssss. He moved his snout lower to Arcturus, as the human rose his. He felt him give a tentative firm stroke, causing the dragon's tail to twitch, and his cock to squirt out a bit of precum, dripping down and covering the human's hand. Veledar turned his head to the side and opened his maw. It would not be a traditional kiss, but he was prepared to snake his tongue into his human's mouth. With his next breath he could smell the human's arousal, and could make out his erection pressed firmly against his trousers. Perfect........His thoughts trailed off as he leaned in, millimeters from contact.

“Arcturus!" Came the shout of Lyndis from above. “Can I borrow you for a moment!?"

NO! Veledar's mind screamed as Arcturus suddenly stopped his forward motion. He retracted his hand on the dragon's maleness and held his head with the precum covered hand. Veledar might have laughed at this if not for the ramification. _IGNORE HER,IGNORE HER, IGNORE HER! _ He pleaded into his mind, as his cock bounced, demanding attention.

“Yea I will be there in a moment!" Arcturus said in a daze, before stumbling towards the stairs. Veledar almost grabbed him by his shirt and forced him back down to pleasure him. That wouldn't be right of course. He narrowed his eyes at the thought, and glared at Arcturus as stumbled up the stairs. Well there goes your chance right there. Curse you Lyndis. Curse you and your need of help!

He held his head up and let out a loud groan of disappointment. I was so close! His hand was stroking me! He thrashed his tail, and scratched a claw against the stone floor in irritation. He lowered his head and locked his gaze on the needy form of his bouncing male organ. He gave out a sigh. By the time he was done, Arcturus may not even want to continue. Veledar had seem him shake his head in a daze. He was probably too drunk anyway. Veledar let out groan into his paws, I want Arcturus with his senses intact, not as some drunken fool anyway. He gnashed his teeth, at the form of his taunting cock. But I was so close! He held his head up and looked away from his cock, although kept it in his peripherals. “You stay out of this. I know what you want." A nice human paladin wrapped around you. He curled on himself, and stretched his muzzle towards his ridged organ. Veledar opened his maw, and pushed in his cock. Savoring the few spurts of his essence on his tongue. They were sweet, just not as divine as Rundath had said, but perhaps it was far tastier to non dragons. He sighed and gave his cock a gulp. He closed his eyes, and pictured how it should have been..

He locked mouth and muzzle with the human as they both moaned into each others mouths. Veledar drove his tongue into the human's mouth as he felt him start to moan around it. He replied with a rumble of pleasure as he practically melted into the paladin's mouth.

Arcturus broke the kiss first, his eyes locking onto the dragon. “Veledar …..I have thought about you for so long..... I just...." the human rubbed the back of his neck, and blushed. “have been unable to express myself to you." he gave the cock in his hand another stroke. Veledar moaned in response, his precum dribbling out once again onto the human's hand.

“I as well." Veledar groaned, “Now will you tend to me? Your dragon needs release." He gestured to his cock by pointing with his tail and giving the human a coy grin. This seemed to work as Arcturus stroked once more and lowered himself to his knees.

“You know I always wanted to taste you." Arcturus snaked his tongue out and gave one slow long lick up the whole length of Veledar's cock. He ended it at the tip, and gave the tapered length a slurp.

“oooooooohhhh," Veledar moaned as a small burst of pre, fired into his human's mouth. To his delight Arcturus did not pull back, but instead gulped it down before returning his tongue to work. Like he had done this before or at least pictured it in his mind. Arcturus stroked the dragon's cock as he traced every single ridge on it. With each flick of his tongue Veledar would twitch, or curl his tail. The gryphons had been good, but this? Arcturus' ministrations were like liquid ecstasy to the dragon, who was leaking quite profusely now. Still Arcturus did not relent as he moved his way back up. The dragon moved one of his claws to caress the human's brown hair as he found the tip once more with his mouth. Arcturus opened his trousers, and grabbed his own erection and started pumping at the dripping shaft. Veledar licked his lips, next time he would have to torture his human with his tongue.

The stokes intensified as the human started sucking the top of his shaft in earnest. He could not fit much of the girth Veledar had to offer, but it did not matter. The humans hands, eagerness, and muffled moans were enough to drive Veledar towards his peak. His breath started to quicken, as he felt the pressure of his orgasm build within his body. “Arcturus......."he let out a long sigh, as is his body began to shutter. “Don't... spill.... a drop." He closed his eyes as he gave a small thrust up into the human's eager orifice. The first spurt was quick, and Arcturus swallowed that one down quickly. However he was not fast enough as the second shot made him sputter onto the dragon's shaft. He went to pull off the rod, but Veledar held his claw firm as he climaxed. His tail thrashed as he felt Arcturus enter a rythem of gulping, and soon swallowed all of the dragon's offering. He smelled, and felt Arcturus fire his own load onto his scales. Not nearly as much as himself of course, but oh so arousing. He gritted his teeth as his mighty cock gave one last spurt, to which Arcturus naturally swallowed like the good little human he was.

Veledar was rocked back to reality as his cock pulsed within his muzzle, flooding it with the rich taste of his essence. He gulped it down easily, making sure to get every drop from himself. He drummed his tail happily as he came down from his peak. With a small pop he released himself from his muzzle. He grinned as there was no mess, no one would know what he had just gotten up to. He placed his head back into his paws, and tried to keep himself awake. How long had Arcturus been gone? He did not know, it seemed to be taking the human forever. He will be here any second, than we can cuddl-" His eyelids drooped, as this thoughts mumbled off into his dreamland.