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Who: Velvet Crowe and You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: aboard the SS Red Fish
When: right after the Shuffle

[Velvet had woken up in one strange tin can and had only just started to get her bearings when she was suddenly transported to another strange tin can. This isn't how she was expecting today to go.

She stumbles a little but manages to catch herself, oblivious to the fanfare that signals her arrival.]

Where--?

[She takes a moment to steady herself, shaking her head to clear it. She blinks, focusing on her surroundings, trying to make sense of things.]

...Is that pudding?

[Where does pudding fit into all this? And that's not even mentioning the confetti. Actually she hasn't even noticed that yet, or the fact that a lot of it has fluttered into her hair. She looks pretty festive for someone so cranky.]

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The pudding's not poisoned! In case you were worried about it. [Sorey hadn't been but Mikleo had practically grabbed it out of his hands to check when he'd transferred to the Huntress.]

[That hadn't really occurred to her, though maybe it would have if she'd actually been inclined to eat it.]

Doesn't matter. I'm not going to eat it, anyway.

Fair enough.

Has anyone given you an explanation of this place yet?

[She sighs.]

There's a guy I know. Zaveid. He's coming to fill me in.

You know Zaveid? [he has friends???????] Are you a seraph?

A what?

[She's clearly never heard that word before.]

No. I'm a daemon.

[Might as well just be straight about it.]

A what? [And he's never heard that, though he knows what the word means in the mythological sense. But demons aren't real; they're stories, just like angels are.] You mean, like an evil spirit? From fables and stories?

What? No...

[This is just getting more confusing, like they're speaking different languages.]

You've never heard of daemonblight?

I haven't, I'm sorry. I know there was a plague in Marlind recently, but it wasn't- [Wait a minute.

This can't be. Zaveid wouldn't be friends with a hellion, especially not one powerful enough to have kept her consciousness intact.] ...do you know what malevolence is?

[Finally a familiar word.]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

[Six months ago, Sorey would've immediately been on the defensive. Six months ago he'd have demanded how she know Zaveid, what she wanted with him; he'd have demanded she stay away from him. Six months ago he'd have insisted on trying to purify her, whether or not she agreed.

Things are a little different now. That doesn't mean he's not wary, but the role of a Shepherd, his role, isn't as cut and dry as it once seemed. And if she's aware she's a hellion- a daemon, she'd called it, then she still has her own mind and heart, like the Cardinal. She's not like he was, mindless with greed and terror and violence.]

We call people overcome by malevolence 'hellions,' when I'm from. I think we might be from different times. [Far enough apart that terms change. So she's from either far into the future or from long in the past.]

I have to ask- you don't have any plans to hurt Zaveid, do you?

Edited 2017-03-28 16:10 (UTC)

[She snorts.]

I think I already hurt his feelings.

[Which means, yeah he already arrived at her ship.

She sighs a bit. The timeline stuff was getting kind of tedious. This isn't the sort of thing she has a good grasp of in general. It probably does explain the language barrier, though.

The questions he asks is a little tedious, too, but she knows she's dangerous. It's not that surprising he'd ask something like that.]

Don't worry too much about Zaveid. He can take care of himself.

[Y'know "He can take care of himself" is like the least reassuring answer to "Are you gonna hurt my friend" in the history of ever]

I hope he won't be expected to take care of himself while he's around you.

[Not that Zaveid wouldn't be up for it. He just shouldn't have to deal with it on top of everything else that he's been dealing with lately.]

[No one ever said she was good at this.]

No. I promise to baby him now that I know how sensitive he is.

[She won't actually baby him, but she won't hurt him, either. They're not close, but she respects him. Though that might be hard to tell.]

[were you being sarcastic?? well watch and be amazed as he deliberately misses that]

Thank you. ...I appreciate the reassurance.

[And because he wouldn't be himself if he were remiss in offering it,] If your malevolence is too great a burden, I can help you with that.

[Wow, okay, that was easy.

The offer to help her with malevolence makes her raise an eyebrow, though. The kid seems so earnest she doesn't snap at him, even though she doesn't believe him.]

I doubt that. But thanks.

[Ttthhhat's not the violent refusal Sorey expected. WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY] You're a lot different from most hellions I've met, no offense.

[Everything is weird and nothing makes sense, that's what's going on.

Velvet isn't sure how to respond to that. She is different than your average daemon--or hellion--for a number of reasons, none of which she's in a hurry to get into over a strange communication device. She's silent for a moment before finally replying.]

I don't think you could offend somebody if you tried.

[Her tone still isn't angry. It's sort of dry, and bemused. Because honestly how can someone be this pure? Is this kid real?]

You'd definitely change your mind if you knew me. [Definitely. He's offended 50% of his friends in the past two months alone.] ...what's your name? I'm Sorey.

Probably.

[She can't argue with that. She doesn't know him at all outside of a first impression.]

I'm Velvet. Velvet Crowe.

[The name's not familiar, but that doesn't mean anything.] And you and Zaveid are friends? How did a hellion- sorry, daemon, how did a daemon and a seraph become friends?

So, seraph is another word for malak?

[It's going to take awhile to get used to these language differences.]

He helped me out a few times, but it's probably more accurate to call him Eizen's friend.

Edited (Formatting ) 2017-03-30 05:17 (UTC)

[So they're called malak?? Is that their own name or another human t-] Oh! If you know Eizen too, you must be from the past! Who're the current reigning rulers, I could probably tell you how far apart we are.

Edited 2017-03-30 14:57 (UTC)

[She frowns a little at the conclusion he comes to. "If you know Eizen, you must be from the past." It's not wrong. But it implies Eizen doesn't exist in the future, doesn't it? She ignores his question in favor of her own.]

Something happened to Eizen.

[Though it's really more of a statement than a question. Her own conclusion. It could be wrong. She'd like it to be. But it wouldn't be that surprising considering the kind of life he chose for himself. It's still an unhappy thought.]

[Sorey stalls for a moment, trying to figure out if he'd said something-

But of course he did. He's just so used to- No, naturally, she'd pick up on that. If she's used to him being around, used to him being a person... Like Edna, sensitive to any mention of her brother, directly or otherwise. He should've been more careful.]

I'm- I'm sorry. I never knew him personally, so I just...

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