#ES vc: you look weird and I wanna go back to the sea thx

[bikmui-a]

[A dragon out of his element | @musetothemusic]

        Amumu had been absently digging at the sand, bored, lonely, when he heard a voice call out from the distance.  Looking in the direction the voice had come from, he spotted a man and scrambled to his feet.  A friend?  Way out here?  The man didn’t look happy, though, and he wanted to know how to get out of the desert.  He’d called it a “hateful place.”  Maybe not a friend, after all…

        Amumu shuffled closer to him, trying to close the gap between them.  He wanted the other to hear him, but he was naturally soft-spoken and didn’t ever shout much.  Still, he did his best.  “Um, I-I think there’s a path th-through the mountains up north!”

        He got a good idea just then and added, “I-I can take you there!  It’s k-kind of far, but… it’s the best way.”  If he accompanied the man on his journey north, that would solve both his problem of wanting to get out of the desert and Amumu’s problem of loneliness.

Talon tilted his head, looking upon the odd creature with a curious look - he had never laid eyes upon another such as he. The size of a child, yet there was something about him which smelt of a much older... magic, he supposed. 

“Very well.” He crossed his arms. He did not wish to remain any longer with the creature than absolutely necessary, yet if he insisted upon leading the way, he supposed he could manage that. Besides, he knew not how to survive in the wilderness of this wasteland, and it would be much simpler to survive if he had another to order around. To demand sustenance and shelter from whenever he had a need. 

“Lead the way.” Talon smiled as benevolently as he could manage - all that resulted was an odd kind of expression. Something at war with itself. 

“I am Jí Bìméi, the dragon king of the southern seas. You may call me ‘Your Majesty’.”