not your stereotypical naga

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

[okay so maybe this wasn't the best place for a naga, especially considering he couldn't read. but it was a place he'd never been before, so it was up for exploring. so now there's a naga in the library. sorry guys.]

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[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[juuust hanging around in the library reading children's books--oh what is that.]

You have a tail!

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

[pauses in reaching for a random book and looks over.]

Yesss I do. It'ss a sssnake tail.

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

[Have a Keyblade living in the library dot dot dotting at you]

What's a Naga doing here?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

[dot dot dots right back.]

Exploring?

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

Huh. Do Nagas even read?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

[pouts a little.]

I want to.

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

You don't know how? [and yet in the back of his mind he remembers reading something about how Nagas are so more enlightened than humans.

.....riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.]

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[totally awed.]

Big snake. How'd you get it?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

I lived in a foressst with the only humansss within a week'ss journey dissstance being the sssmall village inssside the foressst. They didn't have thessse... thingss.

[motions to the row of books he's in front of.]

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

I wasss born with it.

[smiles, wiggling his tail.]

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

Books. Humans use them to write down their knowledge so it can be accessed by others.

[look, he didn't say 'we'. definitely not human.]

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Coooool. So you're a snakey-man?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

The word iss 'naga'.

[amused.]

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

That's a weird word. Why's it that and not snakey-man?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

I sssee. There were a few ssscrollss in the village, but the... sssquiggless were different than thessse oness.

[can basically taste the magic in the air, kind of figured.]

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

I don't know. We have alwaysss been known as naga; to ourssselvess as well as to the humansss.

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

Different language, then.

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Maybe you're all just silly. Humans're silly too.

..I like snakey-man better.

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

I guessss ssso.

[takes a book down, careful of his claws, and opens it.]

Iss it easssy to learn how to read?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

How about you jussst call me by my name? I'm Demyx.

[grins. look, pointy teefs!]

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

Yeah. After all, you know the language. Once you know which letters correspond to what sound, it can be easy.

[Pause] Want me to teach you?

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

I'm Antoine! You have neat teeth.

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

[blinks in surprise, closing the book and sliding it back into place.]

Would you?

[nagadem.livejournal.com]

Thanksss! They make it really easssy to kill my prey.

[fragmentedblade.livejournal.com]

Sure thing.

...As long as....you know...you're not a weaponvore or something.