Ankyra Sound dinner at deviant's palace

cruel though she was, lasher found affection in the dark glut of her tongue's venom upon her -- if they came only to this point, he preferred her thorny presence to none at all, and so let his eyes fill with humour at her own prim lip, flashing her a wide and mysterious grin, though he said aught upon their previous talk.

"about this large," he murmured, drawing lines in the sand a mere five inches apart. "i have never seen such a thing. it did not look edible or i might have brought it as a dessert for you."