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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

The Isle Of The Griffins Chapter 21

Lolite tucked his legs underneath his body and wrapped his tail under his snout, becoming a loaf on the floor.

"Have you found anything new?" Grappleclaw asked Blink, who had since won the game of chess he was playing with the glowtail, which was now on the ceiling.

"I've found something, but it doesn't narrow our list of suspects down from the entire population of Erythala" Blink replied.

"While investigating the scene of yet another disappearance, I was rudely interrupted and almost had my cover blown by a snake! The pest tried to attack me but I managed to kill it"

"A snake?" Lolite asked.

"Indeed, when I killed it I noticed that it wasn't a normal titanoboa, it was smaller and thinner but had massive yellow eyes and a flock of tentacles round it's mouth"

Lolite started thinking rapidly.

"What are you even doing." Said the empty voice of the hopeless creature that lived in his mind, it wasn't a question, or if it was it was said with no expectation of an answer, as if the voice didn't even have a feeling of nothingness, it was just void.

Lolite continued thoroughly overturning and examining every thought, memory, odd feeling and calculation he could, cursing his messy mindscape.

just as Goldenbeak said From outside "what happened to the dead snake?"

Lolite was rapidly dragged out of his mind and opened his eyes.

"I brought it back here, here it is" Blink replied, unlocking a cupboard to allow the tangled remains of the snake, which was indeed only about two thirds of a titanoboa's length and a quarter the thickness.

Lolite looked at it and say that there was a jagged cut down it's stomach, letting the beast's decaying entrails drop free onto the ground.

Lolite had a sudden thought.

"Goldenbeak, exactly how large is your collection of small but remarkably sharp knives?" he asked

Blink lived up to his name at as slow a pace as possible.

"Well, I can't say that, but there are a lot" she replied, also blinking quite slowly.

"Can I have one, ideally with a single sharp edge, blade length of roughly three inches, long slightly curved handle, leather grip, and if possible with a blade of silver?"

Goldenbeak took off the bag strapped under her wing and flicked out just such a knife from a small pouch.

"As specified" she said.