The birds sang out lustfully at the new day, the wind washed through the trees causing them to sway lightly and gracefully, the clouds stood out a wondrous white against the pale blue of the sky, and Auri snored raucously. Many from the outside would question the sanity of anyone sleeping past day break when the draconides grew active, but for Auri they presented no problem. This was due to the fact that Auri was busy snoring the morning away near the top of one of the skinniest pine trees in the area. They had long ago figured out that draconides lack the agility and sleight weight needed to climb trees, sure some Raptors could manage the first few braches of thick sturdy specimens if the branches lay close to the ground but never any great height and never anything as skinny at this pine. So since this area lacked any significant wyvern presence, Auri slept on.

Slept on until a giant mouth chomped down on the foliage not a meter from their head. Auri was shaken into the waking world from the impact and let out a small scream that sounded not dissimilar to the startled chattering of a squirrel, the giant mouth of course chewed on without worry and Auri was forced to retreat hurling insults and curses to the uncaring giant. "You senseless, brainless home wrecker! Gutless, spineless coward! Who eats an Auri nest eh? Only fools and monsters you big... giant..." Auri flustered around for a word as they made their way down to the ground, hoping lightly from branch to branch deciding that if bigmouth up there had breakfast, they should have some too just to show it up. They paused at the last branch from the ground and shouted up towards the intruder "Leafy mug!" Giving a satisfied grin they turned to face the ground to see an adolescent staring up at the Tower asking it questions. Well Auri had seen stranger things, but this was the oddest in a long while. Of course they missed the irony of a poncho wearing, skull toting, grubby tree felon thinking that.

Auri's stomach growled. The young one was wearing clean clothes, not fancy like the ones that came out of the big walls from time to time, but clean. That meant they lived in a village or something, and that meant food that wanted to stay down. "Hey! You got food?" They yelled out at towards them, Auri had never grasped the subtleties of polite conversation "You should give me the food!" they added for clarity and mimed chewing and tummy rubbing just to make sure the message got across.