>>5884489"Do you?" she asks, staring at him. She notices an odd color to his eyes she hadn't seen before. Her eyes narrow a bit. "Who are you?"
"Nobody really, I suppose. No father, my mother is thought of as a whore. And I'm... different." He looks at her. "I've never really told anyone this before, but you're different, too. Maybe I thought you'd understand, I don't know."
"Different how?"
He holds out his hand, and before her eyes, his normal skin changes from its sun-kissed complexion to that of a dark, purplish-red, his fingers ending in claws. "I learned a while ago that what I'm supposed to look like, what everyone thinks I'm supposed to be, isn't what I really am. I can hide it, and I do, always. You're the first person I've ever shown. If I ever showed this to anyone else, I'd have been killed, or exiled." He chuckles softly. "Maybe I would've been sent to your island and met you anyway."
She's heard the stories of demon infiltrators, the reason why she exists, but something about this young man doesn't strike her that he is an enemy. He seems sad and lonely.
After a moment, she stands up. "Why don't you come with me? I can take you to the island."
He looks up into her eyes, his own curiously-colored orbs meeting her fiery orange ones. "I'm afraid," he says. "I don't want to leave my mother. I love her."
"She can come too," the half-dragon offers.
He looks out at the sea, considering the offer for several moments in silence. "No," he says softly. "It feels like I'm supposed to stay here. I don't know why exactly."
"Then... perhaps I could visit you? It would give me a reason to come back here. Perhaps it could... give us both something to look forward to?"
He looks up at her and smiles, and accepts her outstretched hand that pulls him up. He doesn't mind her talon-like claws or the rough scales of her palm. "I'd like that," he says, and he watches as she steps back to spread her wings and take off. They share another look as she flies away before she vanishes into the distance, both glad to have made a friend.
>...At the current size of our civilization, we can support three player actions per age. As a reminder, player actions are purely on the initiative of whatever we would like to accomplish, such as exploring, settling, building, or more.
What will our first action of this age be?
