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[prodigalvampire]

Okay, everyone, I can't take the silence anymore. What's the consensus on the party Halcyn's throwing? It smells like a trap to me, but that's never kept me from a good time.

[There's a pause here as though he's shifting verbal gears.]

And has anyone else noticed the altars around town? Weird, right?

Comments

[prodigalvampire]

Unless you're both about to die, typically, yes.

[skyward_eyes]

[It isn't just is. Nida sighs.]

Perhaps for your world. Perhaps for here. But not all places.

[prodigalvampire]

That's fair. I'll have to keep all this in mind if we ever take a day trip to your world.

[skyward_eyes]

I doubt we will.

[Which of course means they might. He sighs.]

I would prefer not.

[prodigalvampire]

Sarcasm's really not your strong suit.

[He breaths a sigh.]

Let me guess: it has something to do with dragons, but not bears.

[skyward_eyes]

Oh, it is. But you're just so... Serious.

[No, it's not that. Nida shakes his head.]

I can't go home.

[stickyflippers]

[That does get a laugh out of Caelan, clearly experienced in that example as he continued.]

High pressure situations do that, I suppose.

[prodigalvampire]

What, did your world kick you out?

[prodigalvampire]

I like to think I work well under pressure. What about you?

[skyward_eyes]

Less that, more whether or not I'm alive is a valid question.

[prodigalvampire]

So, you can't go back to your world because you could be dead? That's kind of a weak argument, isn't it?

[skyward_eyes]

You're kidding, right?

[stickyflippers]

Oh, I like to think I do too. A friend of mine might argue that thought, though. She’d say... I’m an idiot with a tendency to get lucky.

[prodigalvampire]

Not at all. Are you saying there's no one there depending on you at all?

[skyward_eyes]

No one at all.

[He could be so easily replaced.]

[prodigalvampire]

I know someone like that.

[He had the misfortune of being related to him.]

[prodigalvampire]

No friends, no family, no teammates? What, were you a hermit?

[skyward_eyes]

No. A spy.

[prodigalvampire]

The last time I checked, spies had friends.

[skyward_eyes]

Well, I guess I'm an exception to the rule. I don't spend a lot of time with my coworkers back home.

Or, you know, at home itself.

[prodigalvampire]

And your coworkers are the only people you can hang out with?

[skyward_eyes]

I'm part of a mercenary academy. We don't have much socialization outside of the organization. And before you ask, no, it's not really possible to change that.

[prodigalvampire]

Sounds like you hate it. Do people get conscripted in your world?

[skyward_eyes]

Mostly only the orphans with nowhere else to go.

[And they never really had a place to go after either.]

The Garden is an independent force, though. Beholden to no one nation. Which means, of course, we're also not citizens of any one nation.

[prodigalvampire]

So, this Garden kidnaps kids no one's going to miss and people just...let this happen?