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and Uktesh had to move so that he wouldn’t fall again.  While Uktesh was zig-zagging behind it waiting for it to start moving, it let out an explosive fart.  Although Uktesh held his breath for as long as he could, the horrendous smell continued to linger. Uktesh couldn’t blink back the tears as he tried to breathe shallowly. 
    Uktesh desperately tried to use his Affliction powers to ask dinosaur to stop, but when it didn’t he guessed that taming a dinosaur would take more skill than he currently had.
    The soldiers around him laughed as Uktesh tried not to throw up.  While he gagged he didn’t pay attention to the tail and suddenly he was pulled off his feet and almost immediately dragged the other direction.  He found himself being dragged backwards in the midst of a coughing fit that could easily turn into a projectile puking fit. Lord Astiau and his brother rode up to have a good laugh at Uktesh’s expense.  At any other time their mounts would’ve demanded closer inspection as they too were dinosaurs, but they moved on two feet with three massively clawed toes on each foot.  They had short stubby arms and hands that also had sharp claws. They were both a greenish brown color and had the telltale scaring on their snouts. 
    Uktesh got his feet underneath him and jumped with the tail swing to remain that way.  Finally, the smell dissipated.  Uktesh watched the two dinosaurs carrying the Lords go from standstill to speeding away in seconds.  I’ve got to get me one of those.   Uktesh jumped again to avoid being dragged. This is going to get annoying.   Uktesh jumped on the tail, which didn’t seem to bother the beast, and slid his chain up the tail as much as the loop would allow, then stepped forwards to sit on the back of the armored shell.  The beast still swished its tail, but at least now Uktesh didn’t have to worry about it dragging him. 
    Uktesh tried to bring up a breeze with his power to take away the lingering smell, but couldn’t tell if he’d succeeded.  If I had the dragon’s power I could .  He quickly increased the power he sent to the wind speed as the dinosaur let out another explosive fart, and felt the breeze pick up.   Uktesh held his breath and continued to blow away the smell. When he could no longer hold his breath he tested the air to find that it was clearer, but by no means had the smell gone totally away.  Toxic turtle you may be the death of me.   He assumed that this was just punishment for Lord Astiau’s eye, and not something that would actually kill him.
    As the line of animals, carts, and soldiers started to move forward Uktesh had to wonder if they’d added this creature for the sole purpose of torturing him, as it wasn’t carrying any burdens other than Uktesh.  Uktesh quickly released his hold on the power, now that they were moving, as he’d begun to get dizzy from power use.  As they traveled Uktesh found, to his horror that not only did the toxic turtle’s excrement smell worse, but that the creature seemed to need to release its bowels on a nearly hourly basis. 
    Each time the toxic turtle would defecate Uktesh would bring up a gust of wind to push away the worst of it.  The prisoners were fed and if the guards thought anything about him sitting instead of walking they didn’t say anything.  Uktesh cursed his fate until he saw around a bend in the road that the dragons behind the cart behind the dinosaur had to walk through the muck due to the bar that ran from the cart in front of them to the cart behind them.  They tried to avoid it, but it was impossible.
    Uktesh thought that that was a cruel and unusual form of torture.  The next time the creature released its bowels Uktesh continued to use a gust of wind to blow the smell away, but also used earth to create a path of dirt over the droppings.  He felt light headed after the attempt, but knew it would be appreciated.  He continued to help as much as possible, but long before they