The afternoon was hot and humid under the canopy of the trees, the trunks of which where so thick it would take minutes to folly traverse around them, the stretched up high, there leaves spreading to obscure the suns rays from the forest bellow. The only light were the few strands that escaped through the thick branches and the florescent flora and incests that would light up for breif moments before blinking out as soon as they had come. The jungle was full of wild life, though it was hard to find many without taking a good look. Much like the trees even the bugs where large, a single dragon fly nearly as big as a horse, a butterfly stretched to seem like umbrellas, asthey landed on flowers that where nearly as big or larger.
One area in particular however was not so beautiful to behold. It stretched far and wide, the sunlight hardly penetrating and the only glow came from moss and lichen that grew along tree trunks and boulders. Thick gashes riddled the tree trunks, casuing the faint glowing sap of the species to drip down almost like freshly drawn blood from a wound. This was the territory of the scalemen, or lizardmen if you prefered. Theu where a race of humanoid reptiles, taller then men, and stronger then even oxen, there eyes gave off faint glows in the dim light, small speckles of light glowed off there scales though like the insects they could control this feature to suddenly vanish in the dark forest.
A single hunting party was out and about, there tails dragging along the ground, though they moved silently, save for the faint ragged sound of there breath. Half a dozen strong hardy males crept throughout the trees, flashing there florescent colors to one another as a form of silent communication. They wore shreads of hardened leather and flecks of bone across there breasts, there bodies lined with sinewy muscle that flexed with power as they quickly darted along before stopping to see signs of prey. One found an interesting print, none like them and certianly unlike any of the common animals in the area. A few flashes among them told each other one thing "Soft, fresh meat."
One area in particular however was not so beautiful to behold. It stretched far and wide, the sunlight hardly penetrating and the only glow came from moss and lichen that grew along tree trunks and boulders. Thick gashes riddled the tree trunks, casuing the faint glowing sap of the species to drip down almost like freshly drawn blood from a wound. This was the territory of the scalemen, or lizardmen if you prefered. Theu where a race of humanoid reptiles, taller then men, and stronger then even oxen, there eyes gave off faint glows in the dim light, small speckles of light glowed off there scales though like the insects they could control this feature to suddenly vanish in the dark forest.
A single hunting party was out and about, there tails dragging along the ground, though they moved silently, save for the faint ragged sound of there breath. Half a dozen strong hardy males crept throughout the trees, flashing there florescent colors to one another as a form of silent communication. They wore shreads of hardened leather and flecks of bone across there breasts, there bodies lined with sinewy muscle that flexed with power as they quickly darted along before stopping to see signs of prey. One found an interesting print, none like them and certianly unlike any of the common animals in the area. A few flashes among them told each other one thing "Soft, fresh meat."