Location:Nexus Mission — Transit World
Date/Time:Late Cinderfall, 9939 AZI
Realm:Off-World (Nexus)
The creature's name was, according to the mission briefing, Thornback Mire Basilisk, juvenile, female, approximately four months post-hatching, temperament: docile.
The mission briefing was a liar.
"It BIT me," Jayde said, examining the crescent of tooth marks on her forearm with the clinical detachment of someone who had been bitten by significantly more dangerous things and found the experience less offensive. "Again."
The Thornback Mire Basilisk — four months old, approximately the size of a large dog, covered in mottled grey-green scales that shifted colour depending on its mood (currently an aggressive orange), with a ridge of thorns along its spine that it could raise and flatten at will (currently raised, because everything was currently hostile) — sat in the centre of the transport cage and GLARED at her with eyes like wet copper pennies.
