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These aren't exactly dinosaurs. They're horned, partially covered in what seems like white stone, and their eyes are very human. There's people gathered in a sort of saddle on their backs, and they're calmly walking along the road. 

Tribbie is there, standing next to a white-haired man holding a sword and looking around. 

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"Hey there, who are you? Are you lost?"

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"Oh, that's Aria and Tora! We probably caught up to them! Hello!"

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"Oh, nice to meet you. I'm Phainon from Aedes Elysiae, and you've met Tribbie already."

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"Hello." Her second Beastspeak of the day on Tora, this seems like a good time to use it. What magic can she see about Phainon and the horned people?

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What a nice person, who talks to dire tigers when he meets them instead of assuming they're dumb animals!

...although here there may be no animals left. That is so terribly depressing. (Are the horned ones animals? She doesn't know their kind.)

"It's nice to meet you too! We were hoping to talk to people on the way to Okhema, but when we realized the land was so - desolate, empty except for plants - we came back to the road to meet you."

(Phainon won't understand her unless he has translation magic of his own.)

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"I could prepare another Share Language like I gave Tribbie," Aria offers, "so that you can understand Tora, but only one more today and I don't know which of you to give it to. Or I could translate for her." (She does this.)

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His clothes and sword are magical, in slightly less layers than Tribbie, but still a lot of separate auras. 

The mounts don't have magic on them. 

"The world has been approaching its end for a long time now. You probably won't meet anyone in the wilds who it would be a good idea to talk to."

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"We can be the ones translating for everyone. We've been translating for the titans for a long time, and this is no harder!"

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"Then we will walk with you to Okhema, if it is agreeable." Hopefully they won't be the first to tire, she needs an hour to prepare new spells with more Lesser Restorations. She can keep up in the air, or just perch on someone as a little bird, but that would exclude Tora from the conversation.

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"Can you understand us?" Tora asks of the horned ones. "What are your names?"

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The creature looks at Tora with curiosity, but doesn't seem to produce any response. 

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"Of course you can walk with us! You're probably too big to climb onto the dromas though..."

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So much for Tribbie's translations. Aria tries Speak with Animals. Hello.

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"Hello..." it answers, in a slow but curious tone.  

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We're friendly. We'll be traveling with you for a while.

Are you alright? Do you need or want anything? Are your humanoids treating you well?

It's hard to estimate the cunning of a novel animal on an unfamiliar world; she doesn't want to spook it by saying things it won't understand or saying too much at once. If it's as smart as she is and can understand Tribbie just fine, hopefully it won't be offended.

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"We are good. The earth is steady. It's lonely out of the city, no Earth-kin to talk with, but we'll be back soon. More food might be good." (Aria can understand that the dromas is definetely not hungry, and is fed quite well, and will just always enjoy more food)

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Good!

Your humanoids can't understand you but I can understand you. Do you want me to tell them anything for you? The animal looks like it might be smart enough to understand that.

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"Tell that one to stop touching the shells. It tickles." One of the refugees on dromas' back seems to have instinctivelly grabbed one of the stone-like outcrops to hold on to. 

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I will. If you have other problems, you can tell me!

"The animal asks you not to touch these shells, it tickles," Aria translates, and makes sure Tribbie translates it the rest of the way. She'll ask the other animals in turn if they're alright and need anything.

They seem to have a good working relationship with the humanoids, at least as far as they know. This already puts them above average on the Golarion basis, although a full evaluation would require her to learn what their lives in wild might be like and many more details of how they're treated. 

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Tora can't understand animals like Aria can, but she can sense her mood and everything here is fine.

"Are animals really gone everywhere in your world?" she asks Tribbie. "Except the ones who live with you. Or are they just - avoiding this area for some reason?" 

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It would take something unprecedented to keep not only animals but all vermin out of an area for a thousand years without affecting them or these animals. But the sun vanishing is also unprecedented, and Aria doesn't understand what that globe is doing, so she will wait for the locals to answer.

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"The black tide has taken a heavy toll on this world. We've seen animals disappear from the wilds long time ago. We don't think there's any left beyond the Dawn Device's light, except nymphs."

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Nymphs are great! They should meet the local ones!

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"...what are 'nymphs'? We have nymphs on Golarion but they are not animals; they are fey, intelligent and magical."

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