Teddybear

The farmland gave way once again to forests, and Kivven lowered his hood. He felt much more secure now that he was out of the open.

Kivvien tried to devise how he would explain this to his superiors should work get back to them. The truth would hardly do, he had only the most tenuous of ...

This was a horrible mistake. If any single person identified him here, with this thing, or with its master, Kivvien's life could so easily be ruined.

Kivvien dipped his head and returned his attention to the road ahead.

Kivvien found himself even more irritated by the groveling. "Go back to reading, creature."

"An esteemed one as well, which is why this entire scenario is rather humiliating," he said, giving the little creature a resentful look.

"I was chosen as a child to study under the royal scholars. I have resided in the palace itself for many years."

"I have spent many years on it," he said, "I was raised to do as much."

"A treatment and a deterrent," Kivvien said proudly.

"It depends. Contact with a demons skin, should they be the sort that secretes the stuff, will kill a person of my general size in a matter of days, a ...

"Every part of a demon has its own use," Kivvien said, "There is no part that isn't poisonous, some types even secreting the stuff. The focus of my study has ...

Kivvien glanced back. "What are what, creature?"

It detailed the dissection of a demon corpse, the gathering and testing of samples.

"Just keep quiet."

Kivvien sighed. A book may keep the thing quiet, at the very least. He shifted his satchel out from under his cloak and dug around inside. There was an early ...