As you continue on into the lush rainforest the scent of leaf mould becomes stronger and mixed with the fragrance of ripening fruit. Over head a huge fig tree towers, its branches laden with ripe fruit. Standing on tip-toe you manage to procure a handful of the tasty morsels and happily munch on them as you circumnavigate the tree's immense trunk, carefully stepping over the snaking exposed roots which would trip an unwary traveller. On the far side of the fig tree, basking in a small, unlikely, patch of sunlight, you see a strange blue creature. It looks up at you, it's eyes half closed in pleasure at the warm sunlight on it's sapphire scales. Amiably it shuffles to one side to allow you enough space to sup up some sun-rays as well. "Mmmm: Nice isn't it!" She creels, her crest slicking flat, half opening one of her green membranous wings to catch the warm light. You agree as you sit beside her intending to catch at least a little of the elusive forest sun. "I'm Gz'tech, a Lidraock." The creature says conversationally. "My kind are a mixture of dragon, Lion and Peacock." She shifts her weight to expose the other vibrantly hued flank to the skin warming rays but as she does so the light fades. Both of you look up only to see, through the gap in the canopy, a black cloud sail across. Before you can blink huge raindrops fall, tumbling down over you. Gz'tech gives and indignant squawk and opens her wings, angling them to shelter both of your heads from the down pour. Gratefully you huddle under the leathery membrane. "Bah! Nast nasty weather! Lulling me into a doze with warmth then dropping calabashes of water on me!!" Gz'tech chitters at the sky. Strangely the wing in the fig tree's boughs almost seems to chuckle and a fig falls, bouncing off her snout. The rain storm is gone as fast as it came but the sun letting space in the canopy is gone. The lidraock makes a rude noise as she shakes the water from her wings. "Oh well." She flips the end of her tail and resettles her wings. "I suppose it was time I was away anyway." She stretches lion like then gives you a feather. If you want to see the land my kind originated from and perhaps foster an eggling hold this feather between your thumb and first finger then chant Aito Kidre Tuilo You notice that the Lidraock keeps her foreclaws well away from the feather as she says the triad of words but even then the plume glows slightly and you feel a slight tug from *somewhere* else. "Once you have used it you can't get back here unless you find another portal back to the Tir and the feather will crumble from the spell." Gz'tech cocks her head as if listening to the wind. "You'd best be away now, before the rains come again. I've got to go myself." With that the blue creature darts into the undergrowth leaving you with the feather. You could say the words and see where it takes you, head back the way you came or have a look at what might be on the other side of the fig tree.... The feather is (c) to me and the lidraock to Talonshawk ^_^ Do NOT pinch!!