Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Buckles my knees and catches it with my nearest hand*
If I wished you harm I would have done so with the element of surprise.

@Valiance

It must've been you! You must've killed Ringo!
*Twists my wrist and uses the momentum to kick you in the side*

Myriad Reality

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*Lets go and takes a few steps backward from the blow, raising my hands in the air*

@Valiance

*Grows in aggression and rushes after you, striking you in the knee with my good hand*

Myriad Reality

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*Blasts forward and snatches you up and away from him, sliding to a halt afterward by digging my feet into the dirt*

@Valiance

*The infectious nature of the dragon ceases in that moment*
W-who?
*Spins with unnatural flexibility for a child and kicks you in the bottom of your jaw*

Myriad Reality

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*Stops by the nearest tree without immediately interfering*

@Valiance

*Visibly fights against the creature's instinct, shaking and pulling my hand back when it seems to extend toward him on its own*
Stop! Not him!
*In a moment of sheer desperation, lurches for my own hand instead of the boy, and seeing no other choice, slams my razor-sharp teeth shut*

Myriad Reality

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*Blasts straight into the woods, cutting directly through the path you’re making while zigzagging through the trees*

@Valiance

*Eventually, you catch me hunched over the body of a young boy around my age, clearly mauled apart by some kind of wild beast, and my hands tremble with a combination of shock and disbelief, still fighting off the infectious attributes of the dragon's heart*
No... Ringo...

Myriad Reality

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*Clenches my fist and takes off in a storm, surging past the army in pursuit of Faering like a strong burst of wind*

@Valiance

*Zig-zags throughout the forest as if following a trail, while the scales continue to encroach on my limbs, and I knock down several trees in my wake*

Myriad Reality

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*Speaks to the air*
I don’t know what you expect from me, dragon. But I refuse to engage with a pointless illusion. And I refuse to engage with the past in any meaningful way.

@Valiance

*I look between the townsfolk in a mix between aggression and terror before finally, with great difficulty, running on all fours in the direction of the forest you came from; as I pass the alley you’ve ducked into, the world seems to hesitate as a ribbon of the gold dragon’s light lingers in the air and a spark of recognition flashes in my eyes before the scene resumes and I run into the forest*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks solemnly on as you charge past me before I quickly duck around a corner behind a building to the developing scene, sighing as I rest my back against the wall*

@Valiance

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*Charges you and jams the spear into your wing*
We slayed one dragon today, we can crush another!

@Legend

*Swipes my hand across you, shattering the spear and leaving deep grooves in your chest plate, and then looks between the near by townsfolks, my eye constricting the more distant they are*
Get—get away from me!
*My breathing grows heavier and I vault onto the table, paying no mind to its extreme heat*

Myriad Reality

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*Stops in my tracks and snaps my gaze over*

@Valiance

*My body writhes and contorts, knocking several other impoverished residents over, while my eyes fill with a deep red hue and black scales creep up my arms*

Myriad Reality

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*Turns and walks away when the stranger who had been speaking to me diverts his attention to the feast at hand*

@Valiance

*On the far end of the table by myself and in some amount of confusion but delighted by the opportunity to eat, takes my share with my hands, biting into the tough organ meat*