Private Finished Spiders n' Ice Cream!

Drex was in the middle of contemplating what part to eat next of his ice cream when Amber asked him about what honors there were for Males. He had explained it before but it seemed Lady Amber wanted him to repeat himself. "Before the Gift of Form the other highest honors for a Male involve either Gift of Arms or the Gift of House."

Using one hand he motioned to his dark mythril armor and the spiked chain wrapped around his waist. "As you can see I achieved the Gift of Arms before I received the Gift of Form." He took another bite of his ice cream before continuing.

"After the Gift of Form it opens up the option of having a Matriarch to choose the Male as a Mate." He then licked the ice cream once more thinking to himself. "I think if I hadn't been pushed through the portal that was opened up to here than I think I might have been chosen to be a Mate when the next set of reports were sent back to the city..." His gaze became distant again as he thought about things.

Amber's next question did make Drex pause in his consumption of his ice cream as he thought on those words. When she asked if he had been fighting for anyone in particular his mind wandered. He remembered when he first started his training as a warrior one of the Matriarch Families had passed by while he was doing his drills. One of the younger matriarchs had caught his eye. Over the many years of his military life though that dream had been buried under the need to simply survive and to protect his homeland from the Elves.

"Once..." It was all he said at first, his gaze very distant as he thought on the subject a little longer. However he snapped back into focus a moment later. "No, Lady Amber, that was never a worry. It was your sibling that first found me in the woods when I first arrived here on the island. So I knew there was some like me here. It is not Loneliness that bothers me, it is more in the way of homesickness that has me distracted." Drex then continued to consume his ice cream with a vigor. His teeth still tingled a little at the sweetness of the food.

"It was indeed Young Matriarch Dalia. And it was less a coincidence that someone found me, more a coincidence that a Matriarch found me. Now that I know more about the island any way." Drex took another bite of his Ice Cream. The sweetness of it still strange and odd to his tongue compared to the meat he was use to.

"As for other people I interact with. None, on a regular basis any way. But I have had the displeasure of talking to the Arena managers in some of the fighting pits around the island for income." He dared not ask for pay from Matriarch Pandora, such things were below his station in life.

"I refuse to work for any lesser species. I serve the Matriarchy, I fight for the money for it keeps me fed and it allows me to do things in this world." Drex ate more of his ice cream, there was only a small pile left after all that he had bought. The flavors were still strange on his tongue but he ignored those for now. He had questions to answer. "Fighting is my life Lady Amber. And it would take more than what I've seen here to end my life."

Using one hand he motioned to his upper body. "So long as my head is attached to my torso I can regenerate from any wound in time. I once had to regrow my entire lower body after a battle. That took a few weeks. But my life is to serve the Matriarch and their house. If I die in my service then I will be rewarded in the afterlife. Until then I must do my duty and keep you and your family safe from harm as best as one mere male can do."

"I will do everything in my power to keep myself from falling to the enemy my lady." Drex crunch through the rest of his cone as Amber asked him to escort her home. "I have finished and I shall escort you where ever you wish to go Lady Amber." Drex had to stop himself from bowing, he was trying to act as these other creatures act here in this land.