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THE SIREN OF THE AZURE

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[div style="background-color:#BG COLOR;width:90%; overflow: stretch;text-align: justify; font-size: 8pt;"] Lifting her head at the sound of a voice, eyes finding Xibalba with relative ease. A dark as the midnight sky she-cat rested above her, speaking towards her, asking who she was. Quiet the chuckle, hell, she barely knew herself half the time, about who she was, or what she wanted. Only natural for her, truly. A twisted answer was prepared upon her tongue when another showed up, speaking to the dark hued molly. This one was brown, a shade of cocoa, her own eyes sliding over the Luminary with interest. Spoken on her behalf, about having more claim to the swamp. She might not have been born here or raised in the swamp, but that was correct. Alligators belonged in the swamp, and the saltie was merely making her newest home here - they could be found in swamps, though less often than the gator. This wasn't a saltwater swamp, it was more freshwater but if she needed saltwater, she could travel out to the sea.

Crack of shoulders, head tilting, she found herself amused at the words spoken next. 'You are a big girl ain’t ya?' rang through the air, pulling a low hissing laugh from the crocodile as Arrow continued to speak. She couldn't help the amusement at her words, blinking slowly as she looked the molly over again. Her Tanglers, hm? Lined up with what the dark one said about a place called Tanglewood. Next came a child, a lion cub, she could presume, loud hissing laughter leaving the giant reptile as her body shifted in place, settling. His reaction was the most amusing, as if he hadn't seen the alligator that she'd killed, and how he edged in front of the cocoa oriental.

Spreading her jaws once the laughter had subsided, her voice still holding a gentle hiss, as if the mirth still hadn't left her, "Been in your swamp for a while, if it matters much to you lovely ladies. Sorry I didn't come up to say hello earlier, was making sure these lovely brutes didn't cause me too much trouble", she spoke with a nod of her head to the corpse. She'd fed recently, feeding was not a priority at the moment, if anything she'd killed it to prove her point to the other gators. Clearing her throat slightly, no shred of embarrassment in her, so what if it was a group's territory? She had little care left for the groups around, so long as she lived, let them attack her for being within their lands if they so wished. "I have blood kin in this swamp, Ive come to found in my time here. I am not here for them, I am merely existing where I can thrive, and keep off pests. No, little lady, I have not been chewing on any of those that bear the scent your trio wears. Smarter and fleeter of foot than to slip into the swamp waters."

"Only things falling into this maw have been others with different scents. Been keeping em clear of your land.", she would rumble, eyes flicking back to Lucinder, wondering what the child thought he could do against her eleven foot length and massive body, as a young lion cub. Kids were weird, she could admit that, though the noises he made produced another hiss from her, the siren looking back to Arrow, "I wouldn't mind much if you decided you did want to climb into my jaws. I'm not keen on eating those who have the same scent on em. I know a pretty lady when I see one, two of em, and you two are not some treat to be snapped up." she hadn't answered their question though, but at this point the croc was standing again instead of resting on her belly, "Mei Lingré, eldest daughter of the Lingré Patriarch residing in your land here. Should be a long golden snake." -

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