(OOC: He hasn't actually mentioned that he was the one that killed it! As far as she knew his only contribution was running away.)<br/><br/>"Well... mmmmmpphh!" He let her kiss him, indeed did some kissing of his own, but when he got his breath back he asked. "How did you know that? I didn't say, mostly becuase I didn't think anyone here would believe me. Besides, I had help."<br/><br/>"I'd gone out to reconoiter a safe way across town, the thing was still out there and we wanted to avoid it. I was the stealthiest one there, so it was only commmon sense. Unfortunately it spotted me and came after me, that's where I got the whiplash. I ran down an narrow alley to trap it, but it managed to shoulder it's way through.<br/><br/>"I was toast, out in the open with no cover and nowhere to run, when my friends came up after me and distracted it with gunfire. It turned to attack them, and I saw the only possible place it couldn't get me, was between the spines on it's back. I jumped up it's tail and climbed up to the small of it's back. Pure self preservation.<br/><br/>"Then it caught one of my allies with it's whip, and was about to smash him. Fortunately we'd found a power sword earlier. Too big for me to weild as a weapon, even if I'd ever handled a broadsword outside a VR simulation. I could lift it, that's about all, but that's all I needed. Oka, the naga of our party had it. She hurled it up to me, and she's strong, the thing was about 25 foot high. All I had to do was catch it, and slam it into a gap between it's scales."<br/><br/>He shrugged. "I was acting out of a sense of self preservation, not heroism. I'd like to be a hero, but instead I'm just a victim of circumstances. I couldn't let it hurt my friends, and I was in a position to do something. Likewise, I couldn't leave those soldiers to die. And I couldn't let you get hurt either. Not and feel I was worth anything as a person."