He saw the girl leaping about, without a care in the world and his heart dropped.
"Careful! You could freeze to death!" in his hurried warning, he had skipped the whole falling into the river part, which
then would be followed with her freezing to death. The girl seemed agile enough to not slip, and he returned her greeting with a smile and a tail wag. He was thankful for the friendliness of the wolves in Relic Lore (all two of them, anyways).
"I mean, uh, you could fall, then freeze to death," he wasn't really sure how the whole freezing to death thing worked and sort of regretted not asking Sahalie. He felt uneducated. Was it just when you went in water you froze? Or could you just be standing in the middle of a cold night and then.... die?
Tumblebelly's face was twisted in deep thought as he came up with more scenarios that you could be cold and possibly freeze. How cold did you have to be to really die? If you could freeze to death, could you burn to death? He remembered his own scar, an ugly burn that marred half of his face, and concluded that
yes. You definitely could burn to death.
Right, he was with company! A new face, and a new friend.
"I'm on a Super Important Rescue Mission," Tumblebelly explained.
"I lost my friend somewhere up the river," he motioned towards the direction he'd come.
"Or, I think I did," the gash in his head looked ugly, but didn't hurt as long as he didn't scratch at it. He couldn't exactly see it, but it didn't seem to be bothering him too much.
"Anyways, her name's Lykopis, have you seen her?" Tumble decided sparing the details -- ones he was sort-of sure of but also sort-of not sure of -- was in his best interest. Sahalie hadn't believed him when he'd said the girl was green, which had him second-guessing himself.
"I'm Tumblebelly, professional adventurer, savior of damsels in distress, dragon hunter," he grinned,
"and today I'm head of my missing wolf case, I guess." It wasn't a game, but it helped make him feel a bit better if he pretended it was.
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