"Tlatrien," the half-dragoness named herself, swimming along and occasionally giving Kass or Aria the most cursory of glances. Up closer, her body could be confirmed to be start naked, save for an amulet and headband of jade and gold which joined with one another in a vertical chain running down the back of her scalp and neck, its loops large, and almost reminiscent of the loops found on some animal collars to link leashes to. Her flesh had an overly firm, supple and leathery look to it, golden-black in hue, with the wings almost completely black and the front of her body and limbs lighter than the backsides. "The subtle flattery directed towards my sire is noted; it is, I suppose, an advisable way to deal with dragons."<br/><br/>After three hundred feet, the circular tunnel had curved very gradually to the right and had narrowed to forty across, now pitch-black but with walls within Kass's blindsight range from the center.<br/><br/>Just then she and Aria would also sense a current of faint water, and swimming sounds, coming from behind them - the distance beyond Aria's darkvision range, at the very least.<br/><br/>"Is the dragon outside?" Aria asked, frowning and looking nonplussed by the idea that it might be trying to put itself between themselves and the exit (of little consequence with Kass's teleportive magics, but not something that would bode well for its demeanor), "Behind us - or perhaps, siblings or friends of yours?"<br/><br/>Tlatrien paused and treaded a moment, seeming to listen and pay attention to the feel of water rushing across herself - she even stretched her wings as if to maximize the surface area exposed to currents through the tunnel. "It must be the worm!" she then spoke in a rushed, fight-or-flight voice, "Woken from the lake bed by your passage!" Her vertically-pupiled eyes widened, but Kass and Aria would both get the sense that while she was speaking of a real creature, she was not in fact really surprised - and perhaps had even expected or banked on the visitor.