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"What? Attack?" Asked Orcimedes, looking up at the cleric. Georgina took the opportunity to bite and scratch furiously at his hand, though he didn't seem to take notice of it. "I wanted to pet the hundur!" He justified with a look of minor offense as Georgina twisted out from under his grasp and pounced him to the floor.

The pair wrestled for superiority for an awkward minute and Georgina broke free, lunging at Maria and snarling. Orcimedes casually caught her by the reins and snapped her away with a level of force that may have broken a lesser creature's neck. She thrashed against his strength, dragging him slowly across the sewer floor.

"I mean... look how cute she is!" Georgina lunged at him. The sudden slack on the reins made him stumble and they tumbled around on the ground again like a massive, furry carriage wreck. Orcimedes found his feet and snatched the creature up by its neck, holding her at arms length while she scrabbled at his arm fruitlessly with her claws and tried to twist her head down to bite him. He squinted at her for a long moment, trying to hold his head farther away like an old man trying to read small print.

"Hmm... maybe it's a Djoahulzsukad," he muttered, stroking his beard thoughtfully with his free hand. She gained purchase in the stone somewhere and thrust her mass against his strength. Orcimedes' arm buckled, but he ducked under her snapping jaws and tackled her to the floor once more with a resounding thud! He held her firmly to the ground by the scruff and continued rubbing her belly with a child-like grin.

"But she's so sociable! Who's a good girl??"