The conversation between he and Odette, though brief as it may have been, was much enjoyed by Xarces. For after being trapped in her tum for what he can only assume to be going on an entire day, based on the fact that his only manner of tracking time was from the beating of Odette's heart, and such times when she chose to fall asleep, he was pleased to have some interaction with the woman who's body was his temporary home.<br/><br/>It comes with much disappointment then, when a combat of sorts seems to suddenly break out around her. Xarces feeling her muscles tense as she draws something from her person. The distinct twang of a bowstring, letting him know she was opening fire upon someone, or something. "Is everything all right?" he asks her, pressing his ear to the exterior wall of her tum, curious to see if he could hear anything that may shed some light on the goings on outside. Was it simply resistance guarding  Eliam’s journal that was causing the commotion? Odette's voice suddenly booms around him as she calls out for the others to fight... whatever was going on it didn't seem to be going well judging by the tone of her voice. "Just relax...and line up our shots." he instructs her, trying his best to help despite not having any other information to go on save for that which he can faintly hear through the walls of her belly.<br/><br/>The shifting of her weight, and the gentle, if not hastened, sway of her tummy would tell him that she was on the move. Seeming to be backing towards something, as whatever battle was unfolding seemed to be a particularly bad one. Whether following his advice, or acting of her own accord, the second shot he hears seems much more sound, the woman's heart and breathing and muscles more controlled, making it all the more likely to find it's mark. "Good, just keep that up and you'll be fine."  he commends her... though perhaps a little prematurely. As shortly after her entire body tenses up around him, the muscles in her stomach squeezing in with a sudden jolt of surprise. Groaning from the sudden pressure, Xarces is left to wonder what is going on, as he hears a wet slurping sound up near Odette's face. Much like that of a kiss, though much much deeper. Her belly lurches as she begins to panic, her heart rate rapidly increasing as every muscle in her fiber begins to tense. "What is it?" he murmurs to her, cursing the fact he could not see for himself. *splerch* Xarces can faintly hear what almost sounds like swallowing, having experienced slick muscles pressing slim coated walls to his ears as they pull inward many times before. This is further backed up by the fact Odette seemed to be lifted from the ground, his body wobbling and swaying as her belly hangs free in the air, a testament to his.<br/><br/>Xarces remains speechless as the sounds of consumption play out above him....unable to believe that anyone would eat the woman who'd devoured him. Soon however he'd have no way of denying the truth for as gravity shifts, and more of oddette slumps forwards and down, Xarces would soon feel the bump of something warm through the tightly stretched layer of flesh that enveloped him. "Hmmm? who's out there?" he asks, only to be answered shortly after by impossibly strong suction. His softened body, is pressed within her tum, squeezed like paste in a tube towards the far corner, towards the very base of Odette's constrictive tum. With no where else to go he cries out in pain as his body is squeezed so very tightly. His head forced against the entrance to the woman's intestines, threatening to spread wide open and allow him inside if only to alleviate the pressure that was being exerted from trying to force the large bulge of her tum down the throat of another predator.<br/><br/>It all seems to play out in slow motion as a tight band of hot flesh slips up and around him from the outside world, his body being basked in an additional layer of heat....as he wiggles and squirms able to feel another beings tongue lapping against the flesh of Odette's tum all around him. The bulge that he was soon compressed even more, squishing audibly within her guts as Ryla could hear a meaty *squelch* as Xarces' mass is fitted into her throat. The undulation of powerful throat muscles, spread so tightly around the combined shape of he and odette cause him to shudder, moaning with a mix of pain and pleasure. He feeling another beating heart being pounded into his body, Odette's own beating rapid, in alternating patterns to the new predator's heart, Xarces treated to a near constant pumping thud as the multiple lives, and hungers of two predators pound and pulse around him. He feeling their combined bodies descend, feeling his mass stop only to be painfully squeezed through the entrance of whatever manner of being had eaten Oddette's stomach. Hearing Odette's protest, he knew the chances of her escape where likely to be slim...especially considering how easily she'd been swallowed down. As he settles once more in her stomach, able to feel her body compacted in around him as if holding him in a tight loving hug, her arms and legs brought tight to her core. Xarces wonders what will become of them, "Odette...what's happened? What can i do to help?" he asks, not particularly wanting to be eaten twice, and a small part of him saw it as his duty to protect the body he seemed almost destined to become a part of......as just moments ago he was starting to come to terms with being her meal.....and now this?<br/><br/>Before he can so much as shift to get comfortable, in the extremely tight embrace of two stomachs, he receives a rather painful blow from something hard and heavy on the outside of the second predator's tum. "ooomph!' he gasps, as it impacts against his softened frame, he absorbing the blow for Odette. Xarces does not seem keen on the idea of taking further blows like this at all...for even if it would rescue Odette' he'd be so far gone from being 'tenderized' that he'd hardly be conscious to witness it. No instead he does what he wishes he would have done before any of this even happened. Focusing himself, he concentrates despite the tightness of Odette's tum crushing in around him, determined to protect her, and himself from any subsequent blows....tummies he could handle, being a punching bag he could not.<br/><br/>Xarces<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/255386">concentration</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+16</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">24</span><br/> going to cast invisibility sphere, rendering himself and those around him within 10 feet invisible for 7 minutes. The effect moves with him so as long as Ryla doesn't attack again she'll be hidden, and the guards flanking her shall be uncovered the moment they are out of range, or if they attack Ryla themselves for any reason.</div></div></div><br/><br/>[[ 52/52 hp 18 AC  23 CMD ]]