Listening close, Xarces is pleased to see that the priestess no longer seemed to be in danger, that his efforts to heal and mend her wounds must have been successful. With a smile on his fate, he settles back in to await his inevitable digestion. The muscles of her stomach squeeze and clench, but instead of grinding to break him back down, they rather push him upwards, pressing his body against the tightly sealed knot of flesh that serves as the entrance to her tum. The sphincter parting as he is pushed up into her throat, pulled along it's length and inevitably deposited back onto the cool stone floor of the lizard folk's temple.<br/><br/>Xarces had mixed feelings about this, for on the one hand he had been denied his accepted fate, but as he looks around he is pleased to be able to see the priestess body. More then just that though, his mind is drawn back to Shaklik, to the others in his group, and is like wise happy to see that they all seemed to be all right, all the same as he had left them. That is aside from Linda.....his eyes setting in on her with disbelief. Rather impressed by what he saw, he couldn't help but wonder just all that she had eaten while he was stewing away within the belly of the priestess.<br/><br/>It takes him a moment to gain his bearings, to readjust to the outside world. Setting his cyan eyes back on the priestess he inspects her wounds, seeing that she was disappointed in the dragon he frowns. Reaching out to gently caress the outside of the tummy where he had so recently been held captive. In draconic he speaks soothingly to her "It is good to see that you are all right....I must thank you for releasing me, I'm sure it must have been difficult." he looking knowingly into her eyes. "I do not wish to see you harmed any further and I am truly sorry things had to go this way..... but if you could help us out, we come seeking an artifact you see, a demonic one at that. Perhaps you know where such a thing may be hidden?" he asks wanting to get what they came for and be gone from this place at this point.