3. A Chance Encounter
Saria returned at a tentative poke to her snout. She hissed her displeasure to the Naka-Duskael and opened her eyes to glare wearily at him. He looked young, no more than a child, far smaller than a hatchling, an insignificant being with a lifespan no more than a few decades, a mere fleck on the spectrum of time. He'd scurried back at her vocalisation, green eyes wide; face a mixture of concern and awe. She rumbled letting her gaze return to Drulkars rising eye; head still against the sand. It had been years since she'd seen the overcast blue space, not the green-grey taint coloured sky she unwillingly grown so used to