Well, it COULD be true...

Yes, the merchant does nearly cry out cries in despair at the Frost Giantesses tale of failure. However, he DOES nearly scream out in agony as a magical field surrounds him and he feels his legs throb and shift, getting hairier and the ram horns growing rather nicely out of his head now.

"Waaait," he groans, a goat's bleat decidedly now present. The female giants and gryphon stare at the now half human/half satyre creature before them, stunned into compliance. Mistakenly believing that THEY are being addressed instead of the vile serpent who's inflicting a change upon the facilitor.

"I haven't failed yet," he whispers softly in his pain, only audible to the magical gemstone still around his neck.

Make it quick and good human, a rumbling voice hisses in his mind. Prove to me that you have not. It shall be entertaining if nothing else to enjoy how you keep the what little humanity you still possess, my soon to be son of Pan the shepard god.

She (a female dragon in reality but has been prone to magically disguise herself as male and human to throw off suspicions) still had a few debts to pay off from some druids and this fool would perhaps do to fulfill this debts. Nature and the forest always was better protected by such as this goaty kind, she'd seen....

Slightly amused, the female dragon mage watched and listened as the desperate man/goatman basically wove together a tale which state that since HE was magically bound by contract to the mage doing this to him that the Frost Giantesses are as well. If they ran off now. If they turned tail only the gods and goddesses above knew what they'd wake up as in the morning!

Actually, the dragon found herself having a grudging respect for the merchant. Under the gun, he may have found an effective means of persuasion. Using fears of that one human mage to blugeon the giants into aiding him.

Maybe when this was over and he succeeded (and survived), she would actually reverse the curse placed upon the merchant. Depends on how she feels at the time...

"So basically you wish us to go BACK to the mage who nearly got us changed into something ELSE and risk it all over again?!" Gilda screeches, angery almost beyond reason. "If we don't then we risk being changed into something else by your damn employer? RIGHT?!"

Braveheart gives off a low hissing sound, tossing his head angrily as his beak spreads open. Open and ready to spill this goaty man's blood for having upset his owners so badly! However, a ray of hope for what appears to be the doomed man/goatman...

A brief glimpse by sharp, increasingly lecherous eyes of something and. . . .

1. "NO!" the merchant shouts, fear in his eyes at the murder in those around him. Catching sight of something underneath"The mage is THIS gryphon! It's obvious it is, you see! His spell failed and now your MARK is upon him!!"

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