god help me i'm looking for a game.

[goatee]

Looks like someone's finally got serious.

Well, you know what I like. Give me a place with places to plunder and Cras to defenestrate, and I'll be happy -- I'm a man of simple pleasures.

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[fletch]

I feel sorry for those anyone who will have to put up with you.

[Ignoring that Cra part.]

[goatee]

[but he included it just 4 u

casually inspecting a non-existent spot on one glove...] At least I know how to live life a little. Come on, Eva! Don't tell me you wouldn't enjoy trading shots, just like old times.

[fletch]

No, I wouldn't. I have better things to do than further nonexistent rivalries.

[... Which at this point is absolutely nothing, but she'd take nothing over this guy any day.]

As should you, I would think.

[goatee]

Nonexistent? [that hurts! look at his hurt face! --it doesn't really look all that hurt, does it. by which i mean not at all.] You don't mean that, do you? Why, I thought what we had was special!

Nevertheless, do I look like I have anything better to do?

[fletch]

[A scoff followed by the roll of the eyes.] Don't play cute. If I had it my way you would still be in Rubilaxia, at the bottom of the sea.

And whether or not you have anything to do is none of my concern, but you can at least show a bit of courtesy for once in your life and leave me out of your schemes.

[goatee]

I don't try to include you, you know. You just have a way of... Falling in. It's funny how things work sometimes.

Anyway! I'd bring that up with your mun, seeing how that's got nothing to do with me. Once we're happily sharing a space together, then you can talk to me about not bothering you. [a pause, and then, shrugging--] At which point I'll laugh and bother you anyway, I'm sure.

[fletch]

[Her eyes narrow at the mention of falling. She is on to you, mister.]

Even if such ridiculous plans were to go through -- which, knowing her, they will not -- we won't be sharing anything. You can go find someone else to throw off a cliff.

[goatee]

I can't do that to a complete stranger -- that's rude. [god eva. no manners.]

[fletch]

... So it's okay to threaten a complete stranger over a map?

[A pause as she goes over their first meeting in her head.]

Why did you even want it?

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[goatee]

Of course! Robbing someone ranks beneath pushing them off a cliff in the hierarchy of rudeness. It's written somewhere, I believe. [it isn't. also this is a ridiculous conversation and he loves it.]

Anyway, we'd got to know each other quite well by the time we'd escalated to shoving each other off buildings. There's a bit more leeway between friends, of course.

[goatee]

[...and a pause. he's got a million answers to that question, and eva would probably get a different one each time she asked.

what he comes up with this time, however, is:] Hunting for big, major Shushu can be expensive work, you know. Minor a demon as your map contains, it'd still have fetched quite a pretty kama if I'd managed to sell it.

That's it, really. [le smile.]

[fletch]

[Actually he knows more about her than she does about him, and it's unsettling to say the least.]

You are the one who did all of the shoving. In fact, I did nothing to intentionally harm you! You were the one who swung a gigantic flaming sword while dangling off of a ledge.

[Part of her is suddenly tempted to ask what his issue with her is exactly, but she doesn't care. Nope.] Huh. Well, you're right, it is worth a lot. Fighting in Rubilaxia, though... it seems like a bit much to go through just for some gold.

[goatee]

They don't usually fight back. It's more fun when they do, but they don't. You were a rare opportunity I just couldn't pass up. [his tone of voice suggests that eva should be flattered -- why isn't she flattered]

Aaand-- you goaded me into swinging that sword. Maybe if you weren't such an easy target, these things wouldn't happen to me.

[fletch]

[Now THAT was just creepy, but she doesn't let it show how much it bothered her.]

I goaded you? All I did was pull you up after you tricked me. I should have left you hanging there, perhaps all of that blood rushing to your head would have done you some good.

[goatee]

Maybe you should have! At least I'd still have an awesome sword. [and he'd probably still be dangling there. but with a giant flaming sword.]

More to the point, Evangelyne, why in the world were you out there all by yourself with valuable possessions on display if you weren't looking to have them stolen? [something about... boyfriends... and stuff.] To tell you the truth, even after all this time, I still have no clue what that business in Rubilaxia was about.

[fletch]

[... It's amazing how much that sounds like something Grovy would say.]

And what makes you think I owe you an explanation? You were the one who made things more difficult for me.

[goatee]

[gurl don't even insinuate something like that]

You don't owe me anything, but it'd be the nice thing to do.

[fletch]

And why does it interest you so much?