He pauses before he gathers his objection, noting primarily, "Toads don't smell bad! You're thinking of dogs."
Which this village also has, though for once the oddities of the magic which had (disturbingly) altered the edges of his memories continued to hold village away: they knew to keep those beasts away from him.
He listens to the nonsense of the frogs and toads of the silty waters, a slow build into a rumbling chorus. To be asked to call, to lure, like this?
A toad has never sounded as deadpan as he, answering.
"I don't speak frog or toad, Lan Zhan. And the kind of lure I would be means getting eaten. Toads eat other toads!"
Not universally, but he's being very complaining aware of his current extraordinary circumstances, and how I'm some villages he's visited in the past, animals like him are on even the human menu! The thought discomfits enough he shudders before setting to crawl, slow and careful, to poke his small head beyond lapel and realise he can't really see worth shit.
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He pauses before he gathers his objection, noting primarily, "Toads don't smell bad! You're thinking of dogs."
Which this village also has, though for once the oddities of the magic which had (disturbingly) altered the edges of his memories continued to hold village away: they knew to keep those beasts away from him.
He listens to the nonsense of the frogs and toads of the silty waters, a slow build into a rumbling chorus. To be asked to call, to lure, like this?
A toad has never sounded as deadpan as he, answering.
"I don't speak frog or toad, Lan Zhan. And the kind of lure I would be means getting eaten. Toads eat other toads!"
Not universally, but he's being very complaining aware of his current extraordinary circumstances, and how I'm some villages he's visited in the past, animals like him are on even the human menu! The thought discomfits enough he shudders before setting to crawl, slow and careful, to poke his small head beyond lapel and realise he can't really see worth shit.
"Go ahead and guoguo Lan Zhan!"