Thanks for what, Tal wasn't sure, but he shrugged laconically until the direct question turned his scowl to a grimace. "Guess so. Got a request to take care of a 'gator problem that's been eatin' cattle, an' this seems like it. Hopefully it's just the one out here." Did allogators travel in packs? A question worth asking, except his erstwhile partner-in-fuckery was suddenly going all Attuned on him and turning into a big, flaming dog.
He'd been chased by a big, flaming dog like that once. He spared a wistful thought for Fiadh and all the things that had never happened between them, but with the fyrhund going on the attack there was no time for nostalgia.
"Fuckin' hail," he grumbled as fire hit water and steam billowed up in a vast cloud around the allogator, hiding it from sight. Tal scrambled to pull his Goggles up from around his neck and over his eyes one-handed, squinting through them and edging reluctantly forward as their magic stopped at twenty feet out.
Which was better than ten feet, especially when an angry bitey log lunged out from under the water fifteen feet away and Tal stabbed out with his Dagger while back-pedaling again. "Shit shit shit I think y'pissed it off!"
Though the bloody hole in its shoulder from the Dagger probably didn't improve its mood as it opened its toothy maw and charged the man and Fyrhund with murder on its tiny mind.
He'd been chased by a big, flaming dog like that once. He spared a wistful thought for Fiadh and all the things that had never happened between them, but with the fyrhund going on the attack there was no time for nostalgia.
"Fuckin' hail," he grumbled as fire hit water and steam billowed up in a vast cloud around the allogator, hiding it from sight. Tal scrambled to pull his Goggles up from around his neck and over his eyes one-handed, squinting through them and edging reluctantly forward as their magic stopped at twenty feet out.
Which was better than ten feet, especially when an angry bitey log lunged out from under the water fifteen feet away and Tal stabbed out with his Dagger while back-pedaling again. "Shit shit shit I think y'pissed it off!"
Though the bloody hole in its shoulder from the Dagger probably didn't improve its mood as it opened its toothy maw and charged the man and Fyrhund with murder on its tiny mind.
