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From:

chaosgeneral

Gourry. He asked about your spear. He said that you were friends.

[Yes, this is the same tone that you'd get from shaking answers out of any teenager.]

From:

dragonspride

[At least he knows the name, and there's a funny "clonk" noise from somewhere in Kain's chest.]

Gourry? [Yes, it's recognition, but it's damn confused recognition.] I ran into him when he washed up in Vandare. I grumbled about my armor disappearing and he decided he was going to replace it. I've seen him maybe twice after that. I'm surprised he remembered my name.

[That is the entirety of that relationship.] I didn't know you two were from the same world, even.

Edited Date: 2015-04-14 10:56 am (UTC)

From:

chaosgeneral

[Valgaav looks suspicious, but doesn't say much.]

Well, we are.

[He's not getting into how none of the people he's met from back home seem to know who he is, though. Fuck that shit.]

From:

dragonspride

[...Yep. Pissy teenager.]

[He's still not letting you up.]

So. Who the Hell is Lina Inverse and why was it worth trying to threaten me with my own spear.

[He's pretty sure there's a story here, and he certainly doesn't have anywhere else to be for however long it takes to fish it out of you.]

From:

chaosgeneral

Revenge.

[Yeah, he doesn't want to talk about this, can you tell?]

From:

dragonspride

[Yeah he's not impressed.]

You tried to threaten me with my own spear. [He does shift weight some...mostly in a very pointed "I am planning on being here for a while" without any of it being in a way that would allow Val any further range of movement.] I'm not going anywhere until you've given me a good explanation what set you off to think that was a good idea, so you may as well start from the beginning.

[So Val, have you ever thought about how much weight he has on you right now even without him being stronger than a normal human?]

From:

chaosgeneral

[There's a very irritated glower at that, but he sighs and relents.

...Just a little.]

My Lord Chaos Dragon, Gaav, was killed.

From:

dragonspride

[Short passive voice statement with no context. Real useful, Valgaav.]

You do realize that means about as much to me as if I expected you to know what to make of "And then the last Crystal of Darkness was handed over", right?

[Yep. That was some very tired sarcasm.]

From:

chaosgeneral

[Fine. You've managed to get a bit more out of him.]

There were two kinds of dragons back home: golden dragons and ancient dragons.

The dragons were the servants of the gods.

[And there's a pause, Valgaav breaking eye-contact as unpleasant memories begin to surface.]

The golden dragons decided that they were going to commit genocide on the ancient dragons one day. Everyone was killed.

..I was on death's doorstep when Gaav found me. He's--...was..a Monster Lord. Opposite energetic alignment. I thought for sure he was going to finish me off.

Instead, it turned out, that he was on the run from his own kind. They turned on him, just as the golden dragons had turned on us. He took my life, but granted me rebirth as a general under his service, so we could both survive..

From:

dragonspride

[The wing that'd been over his collarbone pinning him does shift off. Granted, between making sure he does stay put and just the complications involved in moving, the spear and the rest of Kain isn't budging just yet.]

[It does explain a good bit of the chip on the kid's shoulder and how much bigger it is than Kain's had been at that age; if it hadn't turned that violent and volatile, he would've been content leaving Val to mention anything about it at his own pace.]

[But if he was going to get caught in the middle of some kind of feud from another world, he was damn well going to know what he was getting into, even if he was now giving Valgaav ... well... something sort of like space to talk and more patience now that he was talking.]

From:

chaosgeneral

Now you know why I'm out for revenge.

[No, seriously, he's hoping that the implications from what was said are going to be enough for Kain to do the math.]

From:

dragonspride

[Kain gives Valgaav a long, dry stare for that one.]

That tells me nothing about what the current situation is. [And no, he's not budging.] I am clearly being drug into this, and a Dragoon Knight does not strike blind; you are going to explain who 'Lina Inverse' is and exactly what happened.

[Cagnazzo kind of drove home the more metaphorical form of that bit of the code and all.]

From:

chaosgeneral

[Naturally, the first thought is some bitter retort about how he doesn't need Kain to fight his battles for him. Though, there's also a moment's pause.

What the hell did Kain even MEAN by getting drug into it? This wasn't his fight!

No matter, the dragoon wasn't going to move until he'd heard what he considered to be enough, so..]

Lina Inverse is an extremely powerful sorceress. One who'd managed to defeat a dark god. She and her companions fought with My Lord and defeated him. My Lord is dead. I want revenge.

What more do you want from me?!

[That last part coming out as a cross between a growl and a hiss.

Yes, this is a sore subject.]

From:

dragonspride

[There are several things here where he knows there's a few uncomfortable glass houses he might have to face, albeit depending on how certain parties would side and act if they were here, and moot as long as said parties weren't.]

[And...it didn't really look like the other side of this was exactly hunting Valgaav down or trying to continue this. Even if they were, it was pretty obvious Val wasn't thinking things through to the point of suicide.]

[His expression had, at least, sobered more tired.]

Would Gaav want you charging around recklessly and getting yourself killed?

From:

chaosgeneral

[There is so much affront, and this urge to sharply shoot back with "DON'T YOU DARE BRING THAT ARGUMENT INTO THINGS"...But, he can't deny that Kain is actually right.

Curse you, Kain. Curse you, Kain, and the shore you washed up on.

He diverts his gaze.]

...No.

From:

dragonspride

[Which...is about what he'd expected; someone who'd put part of their essence into scraping up a kid wouldn't be treating them as disposable, no matter what they were.]

Then you might want to calm down and be more careful - I'm sure after as much as he did to make sure you lived, that he'd rather you do well by yourself than throw your life away for revenge.

[He gives a half-beat there.] And if you were angry enough to attack one of your own allies with their own weapon, and risk screwing yourself out of a place to live, nevermind if I had been petty enough to kill you for it...

[There's a distinct Look there, and he's giving you a minute to think that one over.]

From:

chaosgeneral

[Yeah, that gaze is being focused off to the side, glaring silently at the air because Kain HAD to bring that annoyin logic thing into this, didn't he?

That only made him angrier, really. But, this time it was an inwardly-directed anger. The kind that'll probably be chewing on him for awhile.]

From:

dragonspride

[Oh, he knows that one well enough.]

[Kain's stuck relying on his wings again, using the wing claws as awkward bat-limbs to shift weight and let Valgaav up; it's not a very graceful motion and there's a thin hiss of pain as he jars his splinted legs, shifting to sort-of prop sitting up with the spear; once he's sort-of upright, the wing-claws are planted firmly on the ground beside him, helping with support and making up for the missing arm.]

Is there anyone else here you'd recognize? Besides Gourry.

[Tactical concern questions were the next order of business now that Valgaav was calmed down, or at least not raging around picking fights. Someone else that has a working memory would raise the question of that grudge going both ways; Gourry...just isn't on Kain's threat radar.]

From:

chaosgeneral

[After grumpily sitting up and brushing himself off, he reluctantly answers Kain.]

I know that Lina Inverse is here. She's part snake.

Alternately, there's that one bird-brat girl. Chirpy, postures and preaches about Justice, short..

From:

dragonspride

[He's not sure how many Naga there are, and the only one he'd recognize on sight is Jetstorm. The OTHER description, however, gets Kain closing his eyes with a despairing, quiet rumble and a grimace.]

Great, we'll get speeched to death. [At least Amelia didn't seem like she was the sort to come after either of them, or go for blood, really.]

Would Lina be inclined to pursue a grudge here?

[He had a pretty good idea of the general abilities of a Naga from Jet, although what he'd managed to glean of their main weakness from the ex-robot's complaints didn't really help; his powers were the opposite of channeling cold, and he'd had Jet practically cuddle up to leech heat when he knew he was outputting enough to burn most people.]

From:

chaosgeneral

[Well, actually, more like Lina didn't even know who he was. And they argued a whole lot and the ritual didn't get completed because she was stronger than him and having none of it and then they burned to death and then Valgaav came storming back to pick a fight with Kain and--..

Goddamnit Dragoon stop bringing logic into this.]

..Maybe not.

[Yes that reply is as reluctant as one would expect.]

From:

dragonspride

[That's a moment of partial relief.] How solid of a maybe? [Part of this is "Goddamnit Valgaav think"; the other part of it is still the tactical concern that you know... living space. Defensibility and likelihood of an attack. He's suspecting they're not very inclined to bother, but there is a "just in case".]

It doesn't look like they've been looking for you, but I also haven't met Lina to guess, although I suspect if they were left be here, Amelia would probably get in the way of Lina instigating anything. [He has a quiet pause, running a claw down the shaft of the spear.] I don't expect you to just forget about Gaav, there's just enough threats here to deal with, without starting extra fights that could've been avoided.

[With the Fog God and other things that've gone on, a grudge match like that would be running the risk of losing the more immediate fights.]

From:

chaosgeneral

Fine. I'll try not to start anything.

Like you said, if anyone who knew about me was likely to make their move, it would have happened already.

From:

dragonspride

You're also going to be more vulnerable until you're fully changed. [Which he's sure Val doesn't want to think about too much, but it's a tactical concern; especially after the display of "getting pinned by a badly wounded gargoyle", it was pretty obvious Val was likely to get schooled hard if he got into a fight with another monster.]

And I didn't take you in to see you end up dead like that.

From:

chaosgeneral

[And that? That gets the stupefied look. That sort of vacant, confused look like this was some kind of strange revelation.

...Or probably just something he needed to hear more often. But he was hardly going to admit to that.]