"Look, Kid. Before we get going... Why are you dangling that mousekin in front of me? Oh, shit! It's moving - is it alive?"

"Don't chocobegus eat meat?"

"Sometimes... And?"

"The guy on the corner said it would make you run faster. It's incentive."

"Sigh"

"It doesn't?"

"Do I look like a-- Look, did they guy on the corner tell you a chocobegu would just as soon eat at coonkin as a mousekin?"

"no..."

"And that I could just as easily reach back and grab you out of the saddle?"

"Gulp"

"Kid, you just hold on and keep your hands to yourself and remember that the reins are for show, and we'll get along just fine."

"...
Should I just let him go, then?"

Her long, forked tongue flickers out to taste the air between her and the dangling creature. "Umm... no. Not until we stop for lunch, anyway. Since you already paid and all."

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See, now this is what I'm talking about!

What we got here is Chazori the chocobo (a monster... sort of), who has been anthropomorphized so she's a girl, and then remonsterized by combining her with a tegu. She's a monster-girl-monster! And then re-anthropomorphized by giving her a job in a lucrative niche. A monster-girl-monster-girl. All in one picture!

30 Days of Monster-Girls 15: Reptile