I closed my eyes and hoped I had made the right decision. I felt the things hot breath down the back of my dress and I felt the ground shake as the dragon loomed closer. Its shadow blocked out all the light now. At the worst time to notice it, a sulfurous stench hit me. Was the dragon going to breathe fire on me and this poor creature above me? I wish I hadn't noticed the smell.

Knowing your going to die is worse than not knowing. If you don't know then there is still a chance of making it out alive, right?

The hot breath of the creature drew away from my back and I felt it in my hair. A pause told be the thing had breathed in. It did it twice more, Sniffing me. The sulfurous smell slowly began to dissipate. Either that or I was getting used to it. The dragon crashed into something and stones clattered, from what sounded to be a few feet in front of me. Right where I was a few minuets ago. The crunching of stones grew fainter as the dragon moved away.

I felt something wrap around my middle and lift me off the ground.

~Oh no, it's going to eat me!~

I felt my back touch whatever this thing is and it pushed me closer to it. As it pulled me closer I started to turn upside down. Reaching around the thing that was currently holding me I grabbed my skirt and wrapped it tight around my knees so it wouldn't fall to an even more humiliating position. A stream of hot air told me this thing was sniffing me again. Opening my eyes I looked toward the stream of hot air and saw two rather large yellow eyes staring at my legs. Light barely glinted of the things skin. Staying as still as I can, I try to get a better look at the thing.

Briliant yellow eyes, and if that's the top of the head then there are two small horns. To the side and slightly higher than the eyes are two small nubs that twitch. From the outline I can see it is just a bit taller than me. But wait it was so much taller before. Whatever was holding me up twisted me around so I was right side up again and I could see the things eyes right in front of my own. If I could see its eyes then I know it can see mine.

I feel my body more than see it moved to the things back.

~What. . . . the? Its not going to eat me?~

~Maybe it's taking you somewhere it can cook you first. Mmm toasty sacrifice for lunch.~

~I really have to stop being so negative with myself.~

I snapped back to what was happening as I started to slide down the creatures back. Reaching out my good left arm I felt for a hand hold to pull myself back up. I found a small spine thingy and grabbed it. Pulling myself up I reached for another one that I assumed would be on the other side. My wonderful luck strikes again as my right arm reaches nothing but a large bulge in the creatures side, and my arm slides back useless. So much for that idea. I pull myself up a little ways with my left arm only to be pushed farther up onto this thing by something.

That something, I might pleasantly add, went up my skirt in the process. Cringing as the thing wraps around my left knee and pushes me up I reach out with my left hand and find what I think is its shoulder. Its straight and juts out from the things spine. I reach out with my right to find that there is another strange bulge on this part as well, or is it part of the same one? The bump has a steep enough slope at the top that I can hoist myself up with it. Cringing at the pain I lift myself up to attempt to sit as I would on a horse, sideways.

This was not a good idea.

I try to sit on the whole shoulder to find that it is not even a shoulder. But some kind of appendage. All I feel as I try to sit is a bone like pole where I thought the shoulder was and a wall of flesh extending up. If this is something moveable I do not want to be on it when it moves. I carefully slide backwards, farther out onto the bone thing and place my left foot at the very base. Slowly I lift myself higher, there has to be a place for me to sit so I don't die.

~Or would it be better to just fall?~

Just as the thought crosses my mind the creature shifts under me and I jump at the small movement. I jumped jut enough to propel me upward a few feet. Thinking that I would come into contact with a shoulder or something I reach out with both hands and let go of the bone thing. Not a very good idea. Again. I feel nothing as I flip over what I was looking for. The things shoulder.

I hit the ground pretty hard, but oddly the ground was soft. I sniffed and the smell of old animal pelts filled my nose. Where did I just land? And where is the . . . Thing. . . Creature. . . . Whatever it is! I turned around as fast as I could to try and get a glimpse of where it was. As I turned I got a whole face full of. . . What ever it is.