[What Beast had expected was crickets and Joker insisting on holding on to that joke an instant longer than anyone ought to before having to admit he'd been pulling her leg.
So to speak.
But then she starts... hearing things. Footsteps. Big ones. Not as big as her elephant, but.
Big.
Beast's expression turns more and more nervous by the second, eyes darting between Joker and where the noise was coming from, looking for confirmation that this wasn't happening. It definitely wasn't.
Except then some towering thing poked its head out from behind the house, and it has scales, and wings, and a tail, and it's a bloody dragon-
Stumbled back, some instinctive move to get away from it, deny it, something, but she tripped when her legs (leg) locked up in fear, landing flat on her ass, mouth open-
no subject
So to speak.
But then she starts... hearing things. Footsteps. Big ones. Not as big as her elephant, but.
Big.
Beast's expression turns more and more nervous by the second, eyes darting between Joker and where the noise was coming from, looking for confirmation that this wasn't happening. It definitely wasn't.
Except then some towering thing poked its head out from behind the house, and it has scales, and wings, and a tail, and it's a bloody dragon-
Stumbled back, some instinctive move to get away from it, deny it, something, but she tripped when her legs (leg) locked up in fear, landing flat on her ass, mouth open-
Nothing came out.]