[color=ed145b]"Sumbuddy ya knowed lady?"[/color] [color=f7941d]"If'n he is, bettah talk' 'im daown!"[/color] [color=f7941d][color=ed145b]"We ain't push-o'ers"[/color] "---But HE WAAY BIGGER'N US!"[/color] Rose was clearly still trying very hard to push the imposing figure's unseen aura out away from the group, and struggling to do it. Lily ready, but fearful, to try physically tangling with him. [color=ed145b] "You gots a trick up ya sleeve--[/color] [color=f7941d]"--Bettah pull it! Afore uhs pass out!"[/color] [b]"Pardon the roughness in my voice, Friends. For The wound from this fool's marble hasn't healed yet."[/b] Intoned the monstrous elder being. Timidly, the girls started to back down, the odd "pressure" Rose was exerting, seeming to relent. [color=ed145b]"Sorreh fella-- Dis here MO'RON dun know how tuh behave hiself!"[/color] [color=f7941d]"We ne'er wunn'd no trouble ta start wit! DA DUMB-ASS!"[/color]