Kitten answers them before doing anything else. "I am a little dirty now, but that's easy enough to fix. I am a little hungry too. I can wait for food till after I've talked to you.
Yours is with my friends now. Let me see if I can help her talk to them. I'll be back soon, alright? I would like to spend more time with you." She needs to keep them calm. If the babies are powerful, a rush of them would hurt her friends' chances of surviving unscathed. If they aren't, running out to check on their mother would get them killed, and it would be all her fault.
With her casual reassurances accomplished, the small dragon faces back the way she came and takes off running. Kitten makes it a little ways before she stumbles, tumbling awkwardly downhill and coming to a rather abrupt halt wedged up against a rock. Ouch. She gets back to her feet.
Breathing in, Kitten concentrates and projects her mindvoice as far and as loudly as she possibly can. "IT'S A NEST! There are young here, lots of them, all talkative and curious. She is protecting her babies!"
If Kitten is too late to stop anything happening to their mother, she fully intends to make all of the young things her responsibility. Even if she is just an infant herself.
Hoping the Gasfella and all her friends are still in one piece, she pleads, "If my friends stop fighting, if they leave you and your family in peace, will you promise not to hurt them? We didn't know, and we mean no harm to your children!" Now seems a time for honesty, and Kitten adds for everyone to hear, "I won't allow harm to come to them, whatever happens."
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Yours is with my friends now. Let me see if I can help her talk to them. I'll be back soon, alright? I would like to spend more time with you." She needs to keep them calm. If the babies are powerful, a rush of them would hurt her friends' chances of surviving unscathed. If they aren't, running out to check on their mother would get them killed, and it would be all her fault.
With her casual reassurances accomplished, the small dragon faces back the way she came and takes off running. Kitten makes it a little ways before she stumbles, tumbling awkwardly downhill and coming to a rather abrupt halt wedged up against a rock. Ouch. She gets back to her feet.
Breathing in, Kitten concentrates and projects her mindvoice as far and as loudly as she possibly can. "IT'S A NEST! There are young here, lots of them, all talkative and curious. She is protecting her babies!"
If Kitten is too late to stop anything happening to their mother, she fully intends to make all of the young things her responsibility. Even if she is just an infant herself.
Hoping the Gasfella and all her friends are still in one piece, she pleads, "If my friends stop fighting, if they leave you and your family in peace, will you promise not to hurt them? We didn't know, and we mean no harm to your children!" Now seems a time for honesty, and Kitten adds for everyone to hear, "I won't allow harm to come to them, whatever happens."