canon is Swordspoint

[st_vier]

You worry too much. Sure I'd be happier with Alec - an Alec? That sounds strange to say, there could only be one of him - but you can't hold up your plans on account of him. Things will happen or they won't - and they definitely won't if you don't finish that app. Think of it like practice. If you don't practice you won't be any good.

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[grandtheftbody]

Some people don't need to practice, you know.

[st_vier]

Every still requires practice to maintain. Except in those unrealistic books.

[grandtheftbody]

There are some geniuses out there, here and there. But it's true that practice is generally useful.

[st_vier]

Are you a scholar?

[grandtheftbody]

Not as such, no. Are you?

[st_vier]

Ha, no. You sounded kind of like the philosophy students from the University, though.

[grandtheftbody]

I do have a penchant for some bits of philosophy, I must admit. However, I've never been a student.

Well, not a real one.

[st_vier]

Con artist?

[grandtheftbody]

In a manner of speaking!

And you?

[st_vier]

Swordsman.

[grandtheftbody]

How exciting. Who do you fight?

[st_vier]

Other swordsmen. Nobles sometimes. Thugs that like to think they're swordsmen. Whoever Alec's angered badly enough to want to risk it knowing he's under my protection.

[grandtheftbody]

Alec must be a dear friend, if you fight for him. Or are you the type to fight for anyone?

[st_vier]

I do work for noblemen by hire, if they're willing to pay my fees. Alec is a different case though, and he really can't fight for himself.

[grandtheftbody]

You ought to teach him. I'm sure he'd be much more useful that way.

[st_vier]

Believe me, I have tried. He's hopeless.

[grandtheftbody]

That's too bad. Are you sure he doesn't just like having you fight for him?

[st_vier]

I'm sure it's both.

[grandtheftbody]

He sounds like fun.

[st_vier]

He's interesting. [He says that like other people would say that they adore someone.]

[grandtheftbody]

The interesting ones are always the most fun.

[st_vier]

You seem pretty comfortable with this.

[grandtheftbody]

What is there to be uncomfortable with?

[st_vier]

Some people are put off by life or death battles.

[grandtheftbody]

Oh, I see. [And that makes him laugh.] Those people are the ones who've never had to face them regularly.