"I don't think she mentioned a mate for this dragon," Aria indicated the corpse, "But rather that this dragon, which lived in a cliffside, was a territorial competitor with a black-scaled dragon that lived in a lake." She queried the woman, then told Kass, "She doesn't know whether either dragon has a mate, or whether the two are mates of each other."<br/><br/>Aria queried the Maztican woman further, to get the lair locations like Kass had suggested, even taking out a piece of papyrus and a charcoal pen - the woman seemed bemused at what it was; Aria illustrated - literally - by marking the map. The woman kept speaking verbally, and Aria translated, "If we follow the grade of the ground here, downhill a little ways is a stream; downstream it feeds into a larger river, which in a few hours' walk goes over a cliff edge as a waterfall. If one follows the cliff edge north for an hour, there is a cavern mouth midway up a sheer cliff face; they have seen the rainbow dragon flying in and out of it, and understand it to be the dragon's lair."<br/><br/>"If one instead works there way to the base of the waterfall - which apparently involves walking several hours south to where the cliff is shallow enough to climb down and then doubling back, through of course we could fly - and follows the river from the base of the cliff, in several miles it feeds a lake. They have seen the black dragon flying in and out of the lake, with captives even, and believe it to lair at the bottom of the lake, or underground via some submerged cavern, or something. She says she could lead us to either lair, although she's scared of being seen by the other dragon or anything else which light lurk at either lair."<br/><br/>As she spoke, Aria was using a kukri to pry various scales in the dragon's rainbow-colored corpse....she'd sensed no magic auras from it or the winged women (more's the pity), but, like some dragons, this one seemed , for the sake of vanity, to've bejeweled itself by inserting gemstones - almost all diamonds and emeralds and discs of jade, she noted - under its own scales, which enhanced the shimmer of its own body in the sunlight. The tiefling scoured the body with a thorough, disciplined greed, even cuing Volera to turn over the massive body at one point so she could inspect all sides.<br/><br/>"She doesn't know exactly where the jaguar-men came from or went. She does know they appeared from and left north, and thinks they used a certain northeast-southwest running shallow flat stream to travel - apparently it's not uncommon for people here to use streams like roads; the jungle is so thick that it can be faster to travel by wading through shallow water, and the air tends to be slightly cooler over a stream."<br/><br/>"The other thing she's mentioning about the area," Aria continued to translate as the woman rapidly spoke, "Is that those like herself - humans, I guess she means - in addition to other nearby villages, live in at least one larger 'village' to the northeast. A great village built with wood upon a lake, and who build 'hills of stone'. They were many different skins and feathers, and make more and better weapons. She fears these larger tribes; apparently they sometimes demand tribute from the villages as well, but not lately, and they more often carry disease."<br/><br/>Aria queried her again, then translated to Kass, "She says the city can be found from that aforementioned stream; it diverges from a larger one which in turn flows out of that lake."