[Regifortis]

The coarse and moist tongue dragging along his skin nearly made him dizzy with fear. Was this beast going to eat him?! He hadn't heard stories of dragons eating people, but he wouldn't put it past them. But then he heard what his captor was saying. He was...glad that Tobias was on his...land?

Oh, no. Oh, no...The earlier mention of a certain act with a certain goblet was now put in a different light. It wasn't just an off-color insult, or a promise of something torturous meant to rattle him. No...this Dragon King wanted, for whatever reason, to play with his body.

The kind of life he had led in recent months, and the body with which it had left him, came back to haunt him. He thought of how he should have been more disciplined as he pushed himself up and flipped over. And some alien impulse compelled him to get on all fours and present his bottom more directly. The Dragon King probably wouldn't mind, anyway. But as he did so, a strange warmth seemed to color his cauldron of terrified emotion.

Maybe it was because he didn't have to look at the dragon at that moment. Yes, that had to be it.