The golden gleam of treasure sparkled brightly at her from the interior of the cave. A ransom of gold that could easily have bought her village several thousand times over, a ransom fit for multiple kings. Alia sighed, an amount of gold that would bring no end of trouble for and her people if the word were ever to get out about the massive hoard of wealth in the mountains. She wondered idly if it would be better to seal this cave entrance now and be done with it. However, her sharp eyes caught a hint of slithering motion. What Alia had at first taken as a crimson decorative statue had begun to move. A serpentine head rose up to regard the light reflecting off of her knife, she quickly pulled it back, but not fast enough as the crimson beast began to call out in a deep and rough voice.

Alia listened pressed up against the reassuring strength of the stone wall beside the car opening, heart beating wildly in her chest as the being introduced itself. When he was done a large plume of smoke exited the cave smelling of ash. Alia stood stock still, before calling out [color=00a651]"Alright, I'm leaving!"[/color] To Alia, this seemed the most rational course of action, she was no great dragon slayer out of Shema's tales, nor was she armed with any particular weapon that could even hurt the self proclaimed King of Dragons. She began making her way down the stony wall before pausing noting that the expanded entrance of the front walls had crimson streaks of blood along it. She frowned at it and groaned before calling out again, [color=00a651]"Is there any chance that I can convince you to take your treasure and leave this area? If the local guard hear there is a wounded dragon here, I'm sure half of them would die on the trip over here from excitement before you incinerated the rest. Then the King's Forces would come and overall it would be a rather large ordeal for the village and quite a annoyance for you as well. Besides what gold we once may have had we traded for seeds and iron. Oh and we just had out last Harvest Festival so I don't even think we have any eligible maidens. All in all, this is probably not a fantastic spot for you."[/color]