Time to regroup. I go to Fiddler and Dar, dragging Ebony along when I reach her, and ask everyone if we're ready to go.
Okie Dokey, you come to the clearing edge wit hEbony in tow, and the Eye hovering about, floating in a wobbly kind of oval between yourself, Dar, and Fiddler.
"That's a pretty easy one. Some really ancient and large snakes want to eat the sun because they come from a time when there was no sun. So they eat the one that's knocking about in the sky and they have something to keep them warm and ambient lighting conditions like what they had back in the old days - the pitch-blackness of primeval chaos, you know."
"Primeval? We must be talking about something beyond my experience of the world, then. I still do not understand."
No dragging necessary, been here, just unsure what to do.
Pick three spells, scribe them in your spell book, and begin casting them on everything. For practice. And cash prizes.
"This one has never seen snake which ate the sun. But snakes do like lying on rocks, in sun's ray. Master said snakes cannot heat themselves, so the sun heats for them.
Da--Uh, cat has hunted snakes, yes. Easy to kill because they are all neck. But this one was always careful, because some snakes have poisonous bites. If cat bit too low, snake could turn back and bite with poison. This one learned that by experience." Dar'yajira's voice shifts towards a more mournful tone "Cat would have died if not for Master. Master is druid."
Continue talking to the lizard.
"Aaaaahhhhhhhh, yes. They sound like sun lizards. I too, once got bit by a sun lizard. it made me quite ill for a while, but I got better. I, sadly, had no Druid to aid me along. But, here I am to this day. Warming myself in the sun and cooling myself in the water."