The King was looking at her building. He was studying her building with his massive dragon eyes, and she couldn't tell what he was thinking because she couldn't read reptilian facial expressions. This was the worst. And then he said "Hm," in that big deep dragon voice of his that rumbled in her chest, and left.
What.
Why was he leaving?? Had he said something else, like "I'm going to go be terrifying somewhere else for a second, please hold"? Had she missed some hidden signal that he had to go somewhere? Was she so boring that he just decided to go do something more interesting, like other people did whenever she got too into explaining something?
The tip of his tail slithered out of sight, and Tiff was suddenly struck with a horrible thought.
What if he was shrinking.
She immediately went rigid, pure horror sweeping across her face as she stood there, rigid. Oh, no. He was totally shrinking, she had messed up somehow, and now he was going to shrink to an iguana size and eat her alive! Right in front of Bridget! That would probably completely mess up what little goodwill she'd garnered with the woman! No one wanted to be friends with someone who got eaten by an iguana sized-king! Should she run? Were the doors locked? Could she even outrun an iguana?
...How fast did iguanas run? Pretty fast, she assumed, since they were lizards and those were always pretty speedy-
Another horrible thought struck her, the rest of the color draining from her face as she stood there, paralyzed with terror and indecision. What if he kept the wings? How scary would a flying iguana be? What if he ate her face first because he could fly and everyone knew the face was the tastiest part of a person!
She was too busy inwardly screaming to notice Bridget's tail beginning to wag furiously. She was too busy standing completely still, her face going through a range of emotions that could all be described as 'panic'. She did, however, notice when a tall, strange man came over and started touching her notebook! Where had he come from! Where was the King iguana! She opened her mouth to protest, stepping forward, and then he was talking, and oh.
Oh.
Okay. She could see the crown on his head now, and now suddenly Bridget's warnings earlier were making sense. The King shrunk into a human, or at least into something that looked human, and not into a smaller dragon. This really wasn't much of a relief, since it was still entirely possible for him to eat her face as a human.
"Uh," she said back, rather eloquently. "You- you couldn't see?" That made sense, now that she thought about it; she'd prepared the charts with a human eye, from a human perspective. Because she was rather bad at thinking ahead, clearly.
She opened her mouth to try and explain her charts, maybe try and give her presentation again, when his eyes settled on her. She flinched automatically, still half-expecting him to begin the eating process, but all that happened was that he stepped closer, and his hand landed solidly on her head. "Um," she started again, a flush rising to her cheeks at his remark. "I-I'm actually kind of tall for a halfling?" It came out more of a question than anything else. She didn't really know how to react to this. How were you supposed to handle this situation.
...he really was kind of cute in a terrifying dragon-man kind of way. He had nice hair.
What.
Why was he leaving?? Had he said something else, like "I'm going to go be terrifying somewhere else for a second, please hold"? Had she missed some hidden signal that he had to go somewhere? Was she so boring that he just decided to go do something more interesting, like other people did whenever she got too into explaining something?
The tip of his tail slithered out of sight, and Tiff was suddenly struck with a horrible thought.
What if he was shrinking.
She immediately went rigid, pure horror sweeping across her face as she stood there, rigid. Oh, no. He was totally shrinking, she had messed up somehow, and now he was going to shrink to an iguana size and eat her alive! Right in front of Bridget! That would probably completely mess up what little goodwill she'd garnered with the woman! No one wanted to be friends with someone who got eaten by an iguana sized-king! Should she run? Were the doors locked? Could she even outrun an iguana?
...How fast did iguanas run? Pretty fast, she assumed, since they were lizards and those were always pretty speedy-
Another horrible thought struck her, the rest of the color draining from her face as she stood there, paralyzed with terror and indecision. What if he kept the wings? How scary would a flying iguana be? What if he ate her face first because he could fly and everyone knew the face was the tastiest part of a person!
She was too busy inwardly screaming to notice Bridget's tail beginning to wag furiously. She was too busy standing completely still, her face going through a range of emotions that could all be described as 'panic'. She did, however, notice when a tall, strange man came over and started touching her notebook! Where had he come from! Where was the King iguana! She opened her mouth to protest, stepping forward, and then he was talking, and oh.
Oh.
Okay. She could see the crown on his head now, and now suddenly Bridget's warnings earlier were making sense. The King shrunk into a human, or at least into something that looked human, and not into a smaller dragon. This really wasn't much of a relief, since it was still entirely possible for him to eat her face as a human.
"Uh," she said back, rather eloquently. "You- you couldn't see?" That made sense, now that she thought about it; she'd prepared the charts with a human eye, from a human perspective. Because she was rather bad at thinking ahead, clearly.
She opened her mouth to try and explain her charts, maybe try and give her presentation again, when his eyes settled on her. She flinched automatically, still half-expecting him to begin the eating process, but all that happened was that he stepped closer, and his hand landed solidly on her head. "Um," she started again, a flush rising to her cheeks at his remark. "I-I'm actually kind of tall for a halfling?" It came out more of a question than anything else. She didn't really know how to react to this. How were you supposed to handle this situation.
...he really was kind of cute in a terrifying dragon-man kind of way. He had nice hair.
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