Damien’s cheeks flushed several shades of red and for a few moments he could neither set his eyes on the sprite like form of Ally; nor hasten her with a reply; his discomposure was furthered when the dice slipped from his hand and clattered to the floor.  He quickly ducked down to retrieve, hoping that he could compose himself in the moment he was out of sight  but as he bought his head back up he caught it against the lip of the counter with a dull ‘thunk’.<br/><br/>In that instant his eyes rolled and filled with water;  the pain was accentuated by the soundless insult directed at his stupidity that came from one side of his jacket and the throaty croak that came from the other.  Damien smiled; a lopsided smile and was still rubbing the top of his head with his hand as he spoke with a shy chuckle and glanced down at his chest; “It’s a little more adventurous than I usually go in for.”<br/><br/>He dipped his hand into the jacket and fished out the bulge and rested it in the palm of his hand;<br/>“It seemed that last ti….” he glanced down and his face fell.  Sat in the palm of his hand was the shrunken head; its baleful eyes mocking him in silence.  With great haste he shoved it back into his jacket and sought out the hump on his other side; The toad now sat in his palm; its eyes regarding Damien with an odd look and for a moment Damien felt that they had both been discussing him last night as he slept.<br/><br/>“erm …” the discord at having shown another the head was noticeable in his voice and the best he was able to offer in a weak stammer was “T..t…oad.”