<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/Zaaylj3.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Xia (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=276392.msg13585581#msg13585581)<br/><strong>Tagging: </strong>Snippets<br/><strong>Wearing: </strong>As pictured, chainmail<br/><strong>HP:</strong>20/20<strong>Armor:</strong>1<br/><hr/><br/>Xia's smile faded as Snippet's did, seeing the concern replacing it quickly.  Rumors?  Rumors came from somewhere!  There had to be something to them, right?  "Xia find rumors, beat anyone lying to Xia!"  She insisted, pounding a fist into her open palm.  "That what bow for, hunt liar and bad."  She added, nodding her head for emphasis.  "Xia sure.  Want tail gone, want body back!  Pray to Green Mother, fight Gaia!  Xia win, Xia swear!  Snippits good friend for help, Xia not forget.  Help Snippits if see again, beat enemy for."  Finally, with their path set, Xia grabbed Snippet's hand, allowing the eager lizard to lead her through the confusing city.  The air itself seemed to gradually change, not to mention the color of the bubbles themselves.  What kind of magic was this?  Nowhere back home had anything like that, not even the shamans in her tribe.<br/><br/>In truth, she was growing more and more nervous, at odds with her determination to find a way out of this curse that Gaia's creatures had placed upon her.  The light of the denizens of this city grew stronger, odd scales and colors alike shining and illuminating the streets.  Those at least seemed like useful mutations.  Why couldn't she have gotten-No, no!  She couldn't think like that!  Gaia wouldn't control and tempt her!  "Blue...now purple..."  She noted, trying not to be swayed by the noises she heard coming from the mushroom houses.  Strength, strength!  Each bubble seemed to be designed for a specific type of being, whether they be floral, elven, fungal, draconic, or otherwise.  It was painstakingly organized, but as they traveled deeper, something in Xia's gut seemed to cry out, begging her to take it back and just leave the city altogether.  Of course, the lizard girls weren't all too bad, even friendly, just like Snippet.  To them, Xia gave a small greeting before continuing on, still not wishing to linger for too long.<br/><br/>Finally, they came upon a darker blue bubble, complete with odd cages and all manners of tentacle...<em>things</em>.  Tentacle grass, tentacle posts holding fairies...She wondered what might happen if she released one.  The natural light didn't reach here, only adding to the foreboding air about this place.  Even her companion seemed on edge, finally arriving at some five-story house, though even it looked small compared to the buildings on either side of it.  "Ah!  Is magic-maker!  Like knife-ears, but...not so mean?"  Xia was hopeful, actually cracking a smile before she exchanged farewells, growing flush at the kiss, and even more embarrassed as it turned into a show of dominance, despite Xia's size advantage.  "A-aaah...Xia come out fine!  Finds Snippits if can, will be normal!  Xia show!  Xia legs beautiful!"  She boasted, watching as the lizard girl crawled off.<br/><br/>Suddenly, everything was lonelier again, as she was once again on her own.  She hadn't considered that, and wondered if it might've been better to hold off on this so she had company for longer...Then again, her tongue might grow numb if she tried.  She slithered up to the door, working up the courage to open the door, only for it to open on its own, revealing a rather fancy and welcoming room, watched by some other denizen of the Anus, chained up but...smiling about it.  It was easy to see the bindings on her body, so why was she so happy, Xia wondered.  "Xia...Xia here to speak with powerful magic-maker?" She tried and failed to sound tough, working herself up again as she slithered over to the chair, eyeing it curiously while trying to figure out how she was supposed to sit in it now.  Eventually, she just settled on climbing up the thing and coiling her tail up beneath her, giving her even more of a height advantage, if nothing else.  "Xia means...Xia wants talk to magic-maker, wants tail gone!  Hears from lizard that magic-maker can do!  Xia name is Xia!  Wait for magic-maker be done with meeting. But...who Mistress?  Mistress name Mistress?"  She questioned, eyeing the bindings again.  "Why one-horn happy with chains?  Xia not understand."