video; un: dovahkiin (backdated to early Nov)

[fusrodaaaah]

Um.

[Wow, it's a rare show of video from Melius. The Argonian is sitting on the beach, in the cold, at his little tent. A lizard, in the cold. But he doesn't seem at all bothered by it.]

[He shifts where he sits, and then just. Straight up thrusts a basket of mushrooms at the camera.]

I was - I was um. [He ducks his head, hiding behind the basket.]

I know mushrooms! Really well! I um - if you need! To know! I can - I can tell you!

Goodbye!

[He shuts it off, right there.]

[... basically, Melius is offering his services as a mushroom expert. With a lot more anxious yelling than necessary.]

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[possessum]

( Peter gives a little smile and a nod at that — he definitely won't be wanting these things back, and he can always just make more (a fact he.... should probably mention but doesn't exactly know how to bring up; it's So Awkward that he can just make demon gold now?? Is this really his life??) But it's genuinely nice of the other guy to be concerned about it. )

Wait— an actual dragon? ( Holy shit... He's heard of dragons being a thing in other people's worlds; he is in fact dating Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, so he's learned a thing or two about that. But still... it's definitely surprising. Peter looks stunned — and just as curious, in a boyish sort of way that borders on awed. )

Is it like... a big one or a little one?

( He's heard of different sizes, too. )

[fusrodaaaah]

Um. Yes.

[He ducks off camera again. Re-emerging onscreen with his Omen perched on one shoulder. It is absolutely a dragon. Granted, it's the size of a cat, but still.]

It um. It doesn't... say its name so I called it something in Dovahzuul.

Aakhahnu.

cw: linked image to snake

[possessum]

( THAT IS AN ACTUAL DRAGON.... Excuse Peter for just gaping openly for a very long few moments. )

Dude, that's so cool! Hey there, uh— Aak— Aakhahnu.

Oh man. Mine has some name I never even heard of before. Here, let me—

( Peter summons the snake right out of his chest, a thing he's used to but also never really used to — shuddering as it unfurls from him in a cloud of smoke, to form a python: pure black on top and white-bellied at first glance, but as the snake moves into the light, his scales shine iridescent all over. )

His name is... uh... Susurrus. ( Peter works his way through it, and the word itself even sounds like a hiss. The snake lifts his head at the screen, curiously flicking his tongue out at it. )

I guess it's good they're meeting, so I can just send the coins over to you with him.

that snake is gorgeous

[fusrodaaaah]

[The dragon hisses, and... chatters? It sounds like it's trying to speak, but none of the words are in any kind of language known outside Tamriel. Melius glances at her.]

She um. She speaks... Dovahzuul. Kind of. Aakhahnu is um. It means... Dream Guide.

[His head tilts, and his eyes light up. That. Is a lovely snake. The way the scales change color - it's familiar. His own have done that, in the right lighting. But not like this. That's uniform and steady.]

He... he's really pretty. He um. He has scales like an Argonian. [Not all of them. But a few.] S-so yes. I can keep an eye out. For him.

he needs to have a photoshoot w Melius for Iridescent Scale Boys

[possessum]

She's adorable. And— looks like she could probably kill me. But still really adorable.

( A tiny dragon is still a dragon, and there's a healthy dose of intimidation at the thought of being in the same room as her. At the same time, Peter's pretty enamoured; she's... very cute....! )

Really? I didn't even know scales could do that before I got him... I'm still not really sure how it works. ( Peter doesn't know much about reptiles... )

Yeah, I'll send the coins over to you real soon! And thank you, for the help. ( Though it's voiced shyly, it's nothing but sincere. )

reptiles of trench photoshoot heck yeah

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh. No. No, she um. Can't. She doesn't - she doesn't have their magic.

[His Omen can't Shout like the real dragons can. She can chatter and shriek like one, but there's no real magic in it.]

I uh. I don't know. Either. Just they - they do. I've seen... other Argonians with them.

[Heck if he knows how it works. Scales are scales.] It - um. It's not a problem!