Najiko laughed for a moment before shouting "Now it's my turn to tickle you!" happily as she produced a big fluffy feather that must have been from some exotice tropical bird and started tickly Mortimer trying to find 'her' ticklish spot...

"Ah-haha hAHAHAHAHA, no, no please sto-AHHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAA" He almost lost his voice change towards the end but caught himself at the last minute. When he had been tickled to Marie and Najikos specifications, he cleared his throat still trembling with after shocks from the tickling..."oh...okay Najiko, your turn again... truth, or DARE"

"Dare, dare!" Najiko always took dare, Marie knew this already as she gave a bored stare at the 5-year-old then sweatdropped.

"... I don't have any good ideas for a dare this time."

"Oh OH I KNOW!" Mortimer was rather excited now and clapped his hands together. Reaching into his dress he pulled out a small book. From the looks of things it was a miniature photo album but the people in it were all very very strange. Coming to the page he wanted he said "Okay... I want you to turn into...THIS" He said showing off a picture of a rather strange looking dragon-human hybrid.

With prolonged pain Najiko managed it, but just barely. "Oooooooooow~" She yelled as the bony tail protruded from the base of her spine, that part had to have hurt the most...

"Awesome!!!" Marie said before doing her typical 'awesomeness spaz' stuff... Including taking a few pictures.

"You better not publish those pictures anywhere or anything."

"Don't worry, they'll be going in the album with the others" He said, swiping a few of the pictures and placing them in neat little slots, returning the rest to Marie to do with as she willed. "You know, you might be able to use this in combat some day... when you get a bit older of course heehee. So, Marie it's your turn again, watcha gonna go for this time?"

Marie was tired of chickening out about dares, she never chose them. "Dare..." She said, wanting to finally get one done and get it over with.

"ALRIGHT then..." Leaning out the window he called down to Taurou "HEY TAUROU...ANY DARES YOU'D LIKE MARIE TO TAKE ON!"

He didn't expect an answer but if Najiko could come up with something first then they might go with that.

[Waiting for Pyoh]

Hearing his name, Taurou looked up at the tree house and thought. After a few moments he said, How about... You dare her to... Run through the town screaming "I'm insane in the membrane". He laughed, wondering if Mortimer would actually dare her.

"You heard im, get to it."

Marie sweatdropped... Looked like she had to do it, climbing down from the treehouse and starting to run screaming that. This was so embarrassing... And Najiko was literfally rolling on the floor laughing about it despite the tail and other additions she had yet to get rid of.

Mortimer got another good chuckle out of that. "Ah... Marie I can't believe you did that... ah" the realizing it was his turn he said again without hesitation "Dare me!" Though this time he did listen for any shouts Taurou might have.

Najiko snickered as she started to remove the draconic bits from herself... just then she realised the bony parts might be somehow useful. "Oh, simple. I dare you to find enough space to store this stuff away for later."

It would be a while before Marie got back...

"...Couldn't you just... regrow it when you need it? Or even keep it? Prehensile tail at bone-like protective scales can't be all that bad?"

"Ok, ok." Najiko looked at the bits... Then she got a clever idea, producing a bone chisel and starting to carve away parts of the tail. "One last touch to the outside of the treehouse... Hehe."

Mortimer couldn't help but smile to himself as najiko fixed up the outside of the treehouse with the remains of her bone tail... and she hadn't realized he had gotten out of the dare

Najiko was very creative... She seperated each joint so that the individual tail bones looked almost like hollowed-out semi-spheres, then poked a few drainage holes in the bottom of each and one to use to fix it to the wall. She worked at attaching them by putting her arm out the window with one plant-pot in hand, then making the pin with her other hand and simply forcing it to penetrate through the wood. She did that for each plant pot, each one smaller and slightly higher up than the last. "Great... Now all we need to do is add the plants."

"Well, what do you want to grow? Thistle, tomatoes, briars, bannanas, passion fruit, corn?"

"Various herbs... Rosemary, some kind of mint... Oh! And Aloe Vera." Much as Najiko hated to admit it, Marie was right about her being prone to getting sunburned... The reasoning behind getting an Aloe Vera plant. "Dunno what other herbs, I guess I'll figure that out based off of what they're useful for treating." Najiko knew a bit about herbal medicine from having spent time around her Aunt Ty Lee, who had been the medical expert in the family before they all got killed.

"I wish Marie could be here to see this. Oh... That reminds me." Najiko added before she started tickling Mortimer with the feather again.

*One bout of raucous laughter later* "[b]Okay then Najiko... how does one more round sound?

"Ok, ok. One more..." Najiko snickered... She for once decided to do something different. "Truth." She'd never chosen Truth before, and wondered what sort of question Mortimer would think up.

"Okay Najiko... how about....where is the secret location of your former village?" It was definately a probing question, but Mortimer saw this as a chance to get a bit of information out of Najiko. If he could figure that out then he might have some idea as to how he could improve her.

"Deep within the forest of Elysium. If you have a map I could pinpoint the location more accurately."

"Not right now, but I'll get it when Marie comes back... how much longer do you think it'll be before she gets back?"