Bryce and Ellie looked up from the water curious of the going ons
"What's going on?" asked Ellie "What do ya'll smell?"
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Denton looked at Zaine closely, studying his likes, then he shook his head
"No... I'm afraid not." he tilted his head with a slight frown on his face "Are you... lost?"
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The red glow of the dead sharptooth's eyes slightly dimmed as Blackclaw and Torgo stood as still as rocks themselves staring frightfully at the giant skull
"Yes, Blackclaw," came the booming voice again "Tt tis I, Kragoth, your father, communicating to you from the second beyond."
"But.. but how?!?" stammered Blackclaw after finally finding the courage to speak "Your dead! And what are you doing in that horrendous skull?!?"
"Do you even know who these remains belong to, son?"
Blackclaw shook his head, no
"A long time ago," continued Kragoth's disembodied voice "there was a mighty sharptooth... all who saw him feared him... even his own kind, as he was but a mighty tyrant of the ages. Our kind called him Maganog."
"Maganog?!?" gulped Blackclaw "You told me this story once already, and your telling me this is our so called mythical hero of time's past?"
"Yes" replied Kragoth "Once though he stormed that very same valley so long ago, none could take him on it seemed, and he prayed upon the leaf nibblers there for some time until one day, one did come. This particular leaf nibbler was called many names from his kind, The Great One, the Lone Dinosaur, Tail Slinger, and so on. He and Maganog fought the great fight that has been passed in many versions of storytelling from one generation to the next."
"And he was defeated and sent fleeing from the valley and yadda yadda and so on" said Blackclaw rushing the story along in his own words "You still didn't explain why you chose this place of all places to communicate to me."
"What were you expecting? Cloud formations? Voices in the wind? Echoing water?"
"Well... uh... yes, I think" said Blackclaw blinking dumbly