<strong>"Thick? Dim? Dull? Stupid?"</strong>The farmer seemed to be growing annoyed with the question.<strong>"You know, useful muscle and cocks, but not the kind of person you want to try to talk with more than necessary."</strong>The way the farmer said these things, it was as if this was the most normal and natural thing and it was Izusa was the strange one for asking.<br/><br/><em>"So I can go and talk to people? Nothing weird is going to happen?"</em>Izusa asked.<br/><br/>The farmer sighed and finally straightened up, pulling her shovel from the ground,<strong> "You're a weird one.  Off with ya now.  Esszie's house is that big one.  Be polite and try to be a little less strange eh?  We're simple folk and not looking for trouble." </strong>Then with that she made a shooing motion with her hand and hefted her shovel in her hands before chunking it down into the dirt and attacking what looked like a dead plant's root structure.<br/><br/>Izusa wandered into the small collection of houses and saw a few women going about their business and the one home that was obviously the largest was the center of the cluster of homes, so she made her way over towards it.  There in the side lot, she saw a small wooden fence obviously designed to keep out small wildlife.  Over the fence she could see a woman with gray hair hunched over inspecting a trellis of low vines.  From a distance Izusa could tell that the woman had elfin pointed ears and her face had some lines that showed age, along with her shoulder length grey hair that gave credence to her age, but otherwise she looked rather young, with high firm breasts beneath the green shirt she wore and youthful mostly smooth skin.  It was hard to guess the woman's age, and in fact even her race.  Despite the ear tips, she looked human and not elven.<br/><br/>Approaching Izusa called out,<em>"Pardon me, are you Esszie?  I was told you might be able to answer some questions?"</em><br/><br/>But as Izusa got close to the fence, she realized this woman wasn't human, not at all, as the woman turned, smiled softly and said,<strong>"Yes, I'm Tesszeik, but you can call me Esszie, what can i do for you young woman?"</strong>As she turned she rose up, not on human legs, but on the body of a great sinuous snake.<span class="bbc_u">Not human, not elf, but a naga!</span>(https://i.imgur.com/q1lqYlR.png)