Luna watched the exchange silently. Though the lich's sentence caused her to pause. He wanted information, well answers. Answers to what? Her questions grew and she stayed away from both the dragon and the lich. She didn't trust either and, and she wanted her dang physical conditions to stop.
The dragon snorted, curling its scaly lips back. With a slight lift of its head, although unable to do much in its current state, it looked at the sky. “Answers, you will not receive from me.”
Oton stayed silent as the dragon moved on.
“I have them, but do I give it to you, is the question?”
“Yes.”
“I refuse.” Lightning flashed in the darkening clouds a little ways away from them. Oton slightly looked over but did not move his attention away from the dragon. The chains that held onto the dragon began to fade - Oton could not keep holding onto them for long.
Luna stepped out from where she was. The chains were fading and she needed to do something or else the dragon would attack. Her bow was drawn back and aimed the dragon's other eye. Her voice was cold but quiet, "You'll give them to him or you'll lose your other eye."
The dragon turned its head to her, with a snort and a strange laugh it spoke to her. “I’ve already lost my sight, the Lich cast a spell which dulled my senses,” Although the dragon would regain them soon enough once Oton was far enough for the spell to wear off. The dragon seemed to recognize that as it soon said “But fine, what is it, Lich?”
“Who do you serve?” Oton questioned.
The dragon rolled its eye. “No one.”
“Alright, let me fix that - who did you serve?”
As if in thought, the dragon falls silent. The chains still have at least two minutes to go before they vanish, maybe less.
Luna didn't know the specifics of the spell. But that didn't mean she couldn't affect his vision once the spell let up. If she could help the lich and his magic she would have, but she didn't know how to either. She kept her bow trained on the eye, maybe if she shot another arrow the dragon would let up.
(Bump)
((Sorry for late response, I’m on a small break right now and I will be for the next few days so apologies if things are slow!))
The dragon inhaled, a deep inhale, then exhaled. It seemed to be in deep thought.
“Hurry up,” Oton seemed to command to the dragon. Time was running out, after all. You couldn’t blame him. He wasn’t at full power, he couldn’t keep the chains on the dragon for long.
“Yes, yes. A Sorcerer.. Inorim.” The dragon, at last, decided. “And the one who killed you oh so long ago. Are you really so upset about that?”
“I am, given that he did not properly kill me, and I am now a Lich.” Oton’s tone sounded almost annoyed, but it was clear he still attempted to be neutral.
The dragon chuckled. “I didn’t know that there was a proper way of killing things..you see, I’ve been doing that for the past few weeks now. Do you mind telling me how I can…properly kill people? Enlighten me, please.”
Oton did not answer to that one. The dragon paused.
“And besides, I highly doubt Inorim lives, it has been centuries since that event. I don’t know how he could survive that long.”
“He must be alive, if I am ’alive’. If he weren’t, I would not be here.”
The dragon sniffed. “Inorim was human, last time I checked. And humans rarely live over their 60s - much less to a century.” It stated. “Even if there was a possibility, he must have grown incredibly powerful over the years. You can barely handle me on your own, Inorim wouldn’t have to even look at you and he’d take you out.”
The chains on the dragon began to fade and loosen as it began to ready itself to soar into the air.
(Your fine! Take as long as you need.)
Luna didn’t know an Inorim or anything about sorcery. She stayed silent through the exchange taking in what information was given. Her eyes spotted the dragon getting ready to take off again with the chains fading. From everything she had read about dragons the skin on their wings was the least protected often being thin but hardy.
She didn’t want the dragon to leave just yet, but killing it here and now just wasn’t possible. But… She could make movement a little bit harder in hopes it kept the dragon away from her village long enough. Her heart continued to race as she pulled her arrow back and aimed for the skin in the dragons wings still debating if she should take the shot or not.
“I’m much stronger than I first was waking up.” Oton stated. “By the time I’m facing Inorim, when I find him, I’m sure I’ll be stronger by then.”
The dragon did not respond to that. Instead, the chains finally snapped, and Oton stiffened, backing up. “I have no need to be here anymore, now that I know what is going on,” the dragon growled, raising its wings, and beginning to take off.
Oton made some distance between him and the dragon, not wanting to be directly in front of it when it took off. He didn’t really want to use any magic on the dragon. Not right now, at least. And he also wasn’t sure where the dragon was heading or what it was doing.
Luna stepped back her body shaking slightly. She kept an arrow trained on the dragon hoping it would fly away from the village and not towards it. As the dragon said, there was no reason for it to be here any longer. Her family and home could finally be left alone, hopefully. If it flew towards the village, Luna had no problem tearing its wings to shreds if possible.
The dragon had made a turn away from the village, soaring higher and higher until it vanished into the clouds. Oton watched it go, having a feeling that may not be the last time he would be seeing that dragon. Now…
Oton turned to the woman, the archer who had assisted him. “Thank you,” he spoke after a moment. He fell silent after that, considering in what was next to do. He now knew Inorim, the name of the person who had killed him before. But he didn’t know where Inorim could possibly be.
Luna let her bow go slack as she watched it fly away. Her eyes never left the figure until it was completely gone. She looked back over to the Lich and gave him a slight nod, "Your welcome." What his party would do next she didn't know. She would probably go back to what she had done earlier, hunting these forests and trying to make a living for both her and her father.
(Bump?)
Oton had all the time in the world anyways, to figure out who - or what this Inorim was. Where he could be, what he was doing all of these years. As long as Inorim lived, Oton did too.
Oton stared into the distance for a moment, seemingly at nothing, he wasn’t looking at the dragon. That dragon was long gone, flown off to wherever. Maybe to report to Inorim? Maybe not.
A thought sprung up in mind and Oton turned to the woman again. He recalled her earlier symptoms.
“What are you, exactly?” He knew she was not human at this point. Humans didn’t react to Lich like that.
Luna had almost forgotten about her chills and shaking as they had gone to the back of her mind due to the dragon. She felt them in full force though now it was just her and the Lich. Her head turned towards him as he asked his question and… She honestly had no clear answer. She had been told all her life she was human and now she was finding out she really wasn’t one. Her eyes glanced at the ground as she shrugged, “I, I have no idea.”
(Bump?)
((Sorry, been mega low inspiration and I haven’t had that many ideas for this RP recently))
Oton had thought there were no Angels here. Apparently, he was wrong. But Angels did not typically look human. If they did, it was the form they shifted to when associating with humans. But…hybrids could occur, could they not?
Oton tilted his head. “Half Angel…?” He finally mustered out. He wasn’t so sure himself.
"Umm maybe?" Luna admitted softly. She wasn't sure if she was, but, but it was the best explanation. She had never known her parents or at least didn't know them very well since they had died when she was such a young age. Her eyes shut as she let out a fluttery breath, "I don't really know because I never really knew my parents. So um yeah."