[Danny]

From above Spider, a pair of faintly glowing eyes looked down. Ludd had seen the battle between Malice and that strange creature, but hadn't wanted to get between them. But this new arrival was curious. It looked pretty much like a green version of Malice, but the eyes were totally different, in emotion as much as colour. Whereas Malice's eyes simple exuded a cold, calm contempt for everything, the newcomer's eyes were filled with rage, with uncontrollable anger. He was running desperately in an ever-widening spiral around the corpse of the creature, with his nose close to the ground, getting more apparrently frustrated by the second.

Despite the obvious threat that such an individual posed, Ludd felt he had to speak to him, so he leaned from the branch he was perching on and spoke up. "Lost something?"

The newcomer looked up, and snarled. "It was you!" He charged at the trunk of the tree that Ludd was perched on, and leapt halfway up it in one easy bound, before pausing. "No... I'd have known Glukkon-scent anywhere, so it couldn't have been yer..." He seemed to reflect on this for a moment, then continued up the tree, and onto Ludd's branch.

Cautiously, Ludd dropped to the ground, where he stood, poised for flight. "If you're talking about that creature back there, I didn't kill it."

"Then yer must have ordered him killed!" The green Drakkic leapt from the tree and advanced on Ludd, menacingly.

Ludd shook his head. "No, I had nothing to do with -"

His words were lost as the other leapt onto him, toppling him over, his hands around Ludd's neck. "Tell me what yer did to him! Now!"

Spider never saw the glukkon move, and didn't see where the gun came from, but he suddenly felt a cold ring of steel on his temple. Looking down at his captive, he saw nothing but determination in the glukkon's eyes. "Just listen to me, will you?"

Spider paused, then reluctantly released the glukkon and stepped back. The glukkon stood and shook the dirt from himself, not letting his gun waver for a second. "Introductions first. My name's Ludd. Yours?"

Spider looked at the glukkon with distaste. "Why would I want to tell yer my name?"

"You mean apart from this gun? Because..." Ludd hesitated. He could see this newcomer didn't take kindly to glukkons. ****, I hate Racists, he thought. "Because I think we can help each other, if you are looking for whoever killed your pet back there."

Ludd knew he'd gone wrong when he saw the slig's face screw up at the mention of the word 'pet', but he hid it well, and seemed to make an effort to tolerate the glukkon. "I'm Spider. How can youhelp me?"

[OOC: i can't be arsed to write any more now, everyone else in the house is asleep, so i have to type slowly and quietly so i don't wake them up, so this is taking aaaaaaaages... i'll type them up romorrow...]