pc catchall for tsurumaru.

[agleam]

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[agleam]

[awkward pause]

Yeah. Maybe.

[preowned]

What about your... dragon?

[agleam]

What about Porridge?

[preowned]

Where did the two of you meet?

[agleam]

Oh! Back home. We were traveling through a forest and had to stop in a cave for shelter, and that's where we found his egg. He hatched not long afterwards. It's funny - until we found him, we were pretty sure they were extinct by now. It was a pretty big surprise when the egg started to crack.

[preowned]

Is he the last dragon then? Or is there probably more out there?

[agleam]

I think he's probably the last one. I'm guessing nobody found the nest his egg was in because it was in a really dangerous area... But if you don't train them well from when they're young, they can be really destructive and violent, so people tended to fight them when they came across them when there were a lot more.

[preowned]

That must be an interesting existence, to be the only one left... I'm sure you make up for it by feeding him a lot of non-chicken treats.

[ that last part is said pointedly ]

[agleam]

I will make sure that he doesn't even remember what chicken tastes like by the end of this whole thing.

[speaking of which, he's handing her back to tsuru now.]

And thanks for letting me pet her!

[preowned]

Not a problem. I think petting a chicken is a good way to relax during times of stress.

[ sometimes you offer one to sad children. ]

[agleam]

Yeah. You can pet Porridge any time you want, too! Just, um, when Bob-chan isn't around, probably.

[preowned]

I'd love that! A friend of mine would be jealous...

[agleam]

Just be careful. If you give him too much attention, he'll never leave you alone.

[he laughs before he moves on]

Which friend?

[preowned]

Ah, he's not here... Kara-bou. [ a pause. ] Ookurikara.

He's very, hm, dragon themed? I suppose?

[agleam]

As in, he likes them a lot, or...?

[preowned]

It's because Date Masamune was known as the One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshu...

[ a pause. ]

He was a famous warlord in Japan.

[agleam]

Oh.

[he immediately just chalks it up to kara being a nerd, which is valid in his book.]

Maybe we'll get phones sometime and you can take a picture to bring back home to him.

[preowned]

... take pictures with a phone?

[ they didn't have phones in crau1 or subd ]

[agleam]

Oh, yeah!

[a long pause.]

I have no idea how to explain this, but I can probably show you if we do get them at some point!

[preowned]

I see... it sounds like technology has advanced again?

[ humans are so neat with their little items... ]

[agleam]

Yeah! I was surprised, too.

[a beat]

Well, not because technology advanced, I know that always happened. But by the phone, definitely! I've never seen anything that could do half the things it could.

[preowned]

Was it at that school then...?

[agleam]

It was, yeah. I learned a lot about how to use them! I probably don't have the full picture, still, but they're neat.

[preowned]

Wow! Well, you still know a lot more than I do.

[ which is literally nothing! he's starting from the literal bottom! ]

[agleam]

Maybe you'll get to text...

[he says that like it's a magic word]