"Oi, tiny dude"

Dave opened his eyes to see who was disturbing his nap. It happened to be a rather unkempt bipedal reptile, with powerful legs like a raptor complete with some dangerous looking talons. The torso and arms were more human, with opposable thumbs, but with only three fingers on each hand and a pipe in one. Its' scales were somewhat dull having been covered with a surface of dirt. He smelled a bit funny and alhough Dave wasn't sure, his eyes seemed to be a little bloodshot.

"Um, hello?" Dave sat up while rubbing his eyes and stretching.

"You gonna eat that?" The lizard gestured languidly with his pipe at the pot of now lukewarm meat porridge.

"Probably not, I made too much on account of being a baby, turns out my appetite was smaller than I thought, why are you here anyway?"

"Cheers bro" The lizard grabs the pot and pours a ladleful into his mouth and, without chewing much, swallows.

"So, I was having a stroll through the woods after having a smoke, as you do. Anyway I got the muchies really fuckin badly and being an experienced man of the woods as I am, I smelled something tasty and here we are." The Lizard had another ladle of porridge.

"Ahh so you are male, I wasn't sure, never seen a lizardperson before"

"Well you are pretty young after all and we tend not to talk to humans if we can avoid it" the Lizard sighed before continuing "You lot are some xenophobic fuckers you know. Although all things considered we were sort of dickheads about the whole betrayal against the ADR..." The raptor trailed off.

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"What the hell's the ADR?"

"Alliance of Diminutive Races, basically the goblins, dwarves and gnomes decided to stop killing each other for once and united to declare war on everyone taller than them. Mainly the elves, since they enjoy looking down their nose at everything. Anyway a few of the human kingdoms weren't busy fighting each other over which god is correct or collapsing into civil war. They thought that they'd get in on the action to make money by nicking it off of the goblins and dwarves. Us Lizardmen decided to stay out of it until the ADR persuaded us to join in with a boatload of gold."

"An actual boatload?"

"Yep" The reptile paused to spoon more food into his mouth. "Hang on, why can you talk and cook?"

"I'm a demon, the dead guy over there summoned me"

"Oh shit you're a demon, that explains the sick tattoos. You ain't gonna do any weird demonic shit like peel my skin off or anything?" The lizard backs off slightly cautiously, then hurriedly gulps another mouthful of porridge.

"I'm not that sort of demon, the dead guy over there still has all of his skin." This unsurprisingly didn't calm the lizard down much.

"That's cool, I was worried that I'd have to ditch the porridge, it's pretty good." The lizard continues eating then uses his long tongue to clean the bottom of the pan before continuing.

"Did you kill him without peeling his skin off?"

"No he slipped, terribly unlucky."

The lizard crouched over the corpse which by this point was stiff and cold. "Since you gave me dinner I feel like I should return the favour somehow, although nothing too difficult, I aint one of them holy idiots"

"Any chance you could give me a lift to a town or something, I'm a baby and you just ate all my food" Dave gestured to his surroundings.

The Lizard thinks for a few seconds then shrugs and casually chucks the pot and ladle over his shoulder.

"Fuck it I wasn't doing anything else anyway and you don't look like you weigh much. I'm Shek by the way"

"I'm Dave"

"I was expecting something a little more uhh"

"Sinister?"

"Yeah I guess..."

And so the really unadvisable combination of a whacked out lizard and an underage demon set off out of the cave.