Shadowfur and Lionheart

by Shoughad

When I was playing Neverwinter Nights a year ago I started to post one or two screenshots of the actual gameplay on my homepage and wrote tiny, somehow fitting scenes or dialogues. I called them "snippets" - until they grew into my first fanfic ... Enjoy

2. There are dragons and there are dragons

Still "warming up" ...

This snippet is another small scene from chapter 3 of "Neverwinter Nights", taking place shortly after outplaying Akkulatraxas, the Green Dragon.

"There are dragons and there are dragons ..."

"Dragons are tall, dangerous creatures. They'll freeze you, toast you, mangle you, trample you down ...- You didn't tell me, that they'll bathe me in slime, ugh!"
With disgust Teloki shakes off his vambrace some splashes of green acid.
"Tssss, unbelievable! Look, how cute he is, lying there stock-still. I almost could forget that he called me a tiny pet!"
Linu sighs. "Little people and their tall ego! Teloki, if you are going to bear a grudge against all dragons I seriously have to fear for their future!"

A smile flickers on the halflings lips. "There are dragons and there are dragons", he says shrugging.
"This one has been kind of ... that ... dragon, but surely somewhere live others - just like the one, over whose last years Tamorlyn, the bard has been watching patiently."
"A weary, old philosophizing lizard?", Linu teases. She earns an amused shrug and an innocent glance out of narrow gray eyes.
"Hmmmm, whats wrong with it as long as it guards a treasure, that is waiting to change hands?"