Role

Chapter 4

her tribe and ensure that the sun rose again on her people. Drustrui gave her the potion
of blessed death and she quaffed it and slumped to the ground without injury or blemish.
Drustrui bundled her into a thick rug and moved towards the twins to add to his collection
but he stood on a glass and the noise of the breaking awoke the closest twin. The twin
cried out at the sight of Drustrui for he had not taken the form of the beetle yet and before
he could muffle the boy sufficiently, four guards came bundling into the room. The blows
came thick and fast leaving Drustrui only a brief moment to take to his most defensive form.
The shell of his tortoise form gave him enough time to chomp at a few of the guards before
moving back towards the rug with the princess in it where he reverted to his normal form,
grabbed the princess and uttered the words of recalling. He slumped at the altar of Hamsah
Mutazz with his quarry in hand. He was badly hurt and without sufficient amounts of gold
to employ the healer effectively. It was by complete chance that he looked to the north at
to see the gigantic rushing form of Woldrun, the commander of the village. Drustrui, once
again ducked into his shell to take as little harm as possible but had to leave behind his
princess, wrapped in the rug, as he made for freedom and survival. After taking several hours
in a dark and dingy cave to recover from the grievous wounds Drustrui noted that he would
need a stronger form that combined both the attributes of his leech and his tortoise if he
was to survive such encounters with any comfort and so began studying the form of the
komodo dragon. This would have the strength he needed.
As luck would have it the rug had been left untouched at the altar so Drustrui carefully
retrieved it, at night, and took the Princess to her new friends in the shade of the trees
by the pond.