driftfleet | [Video] Complaint #1

Who: Edna and You
Broadcast: Oh yes
Action: on the Marsiva
When: today

[Video]

[Being warm and comfortable is nice for half a second, but Edna has never needed to sleep in her life. Sure, resting is great and all, especially after a long and hard fight, but still not necessary. And waking up has never been difficult for her. Until now.

She rolls over and stretches, a booted foot sticking out of the blankets as her gloved hand covers a yawn that would put a man five times her size to shame. One blue eye cracks open before the other and she slowly rotates her head over.

And sees a black sky sprinkled with stars. Too many stars. That's when she sits up and looks around, frowning as she sees the sterile metal....things everywhere.]

Where's my mountain?

[Her hands pat around her, looking for her umbrella, and come up empty. Her voice and face definitely let anyone who can see her over the comm know that she is Not Happy. Sadly all that comes through is her voice, and the movements she makes on the bed. So, beware of ghosts.]

Alright, Meebo, you can give my umbrella back. You have five seconds.

[Action]

[For those with high spiritual resonance, they will see a tiny girl who is stomping around the Marsiva, looking as if she can murder anything or one who gets in her way. Her footsteps are much heavier than someone of her size should be able to generate, but that's not stopping her.]

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Good.

[Edna knows that Velvet's not being cranky at her. She's cranky herself and has been for a while regarding humans.]

I've called him a lot of things. He's my brother. You must be one of his pirates.

Not exactly.

[Velvet knows that Eizen told Edna about her and the rest of the crew, but she's actually not sure what exactly he told her. She still doesn't consider herself a pirate, really, even though she's been traveling and working with Eizen and his pirates for awhile. It's useful to her, but she doesn't have the passion for it that Eizen does.]

We've just been working together toward a common goal.

[That earns Velvet a sharp smile, not that she can see it, but it's there nonetheless.]

Is this in his grand mission to find his pirate friend then? He never told me much about them, but it doesn't take a genius to know that he was traveling around with Aifread and his crew of pirates around the time he sent me that letter with that stupid Normin.

[Please tell her that you know about Phoenix and find him annoying too.]

He might be an idiot, but I'm not.

Kind of. We already found Aifread, though.

[She might sound vaguely bemused, just because she's not sure what Eizen told her about that.

She snorts a little.]

Not too fond of Phoenix, huh.

Well, that's good to know. Nice to see that he doesn't throw his life away.

[Edna's not amused. Eizen tells her nothing about what he's doing. He writes her enough letters to flood the entirety of Glenwood in paper, but he doesn't actually tell her anything about what he does with his group of pirates.

Hell, it took her four years to tell her about the pirates at all.]

Phoenix is like that annoying guard dog that you put up with but don't need or want.

Well, Bienfu did say he was a dog type.

[So that sounds about right.]

Never take the word of a Normin.

[Because with a name like Bienfu, he has to be a Normin.]

They're only about half right and they're always annoying, even if they aren't complete idiots.

[There's a reason she's got a long list of complaints against them.]

I don't know, Grim wasn't so bad.

[Bienfu was pretty annoying, it's true, but Grim, while eccentric was pretty instrumental in figuring out what Artorius was up to.]

Some are better than others, but they're all annoying in the long run. After living over two millennia, you learn a thing or two. They've all gotten on my nerves at least three times in the entire time I've had to put up with them.

At least three times? That's a pretty specific number.

Three times each. I know that you're unaware, but normin are a pain in the butt. And by that I mean that I have 77 confrontations, 108 complaints, and 32 appeals lodged against their boring, plain faced little bodies.

Edited 2017-05-13 02:43 (UTC)

You...keep a record.

[That's...honestly kind of impressive.]

There are fifty of them. And the only way you can get them to back off is to be aggressive with them. If you give them an inch, they try to take the continent. So, I don't give them anything.

Sounds like you have more experience with them than I do.

[Velvet really only paid attention to the ones that were useful to her.]

I have more experience with them than I want, that's for sure. But, I guess if you know Phoenix, then you know what I'm talking about when I say they should come with muzzles.

[Blah, blah, blah. Freedom. Blah.]

I don't know him that well. Mostly I just helped beat him up.

[That, she understands that, and she gives a dry, slightly amused chortle.]

You're not missing anything. Just a lot of boring talk about Normin Oppression.

Sounds boring.

[The Lord of Calamity is clearly full of compassion for the Normin plight.]

Extremely.

It's why I hung him upside down by his foot for hundreds of years off my parasol.

My parasol that is now missing.

[She breathes out a laugh.]

And people say I'm cruel.

You say you know Eizen. What did you expect from someone raised by him?

[She shrugs.]

It wasn't a judgment.

[She doesn't doubt Phoenix deserved it.]

[Normally, Edna would be irritated, but it's been interesting so far. A stranger that knows Eizen—one she's never heard about.

Of course, she only ever heard about his stupid group of pirates, one that this woman seems to have been acquainted with but doesn't consider herself part of. It's curious, and she's nothing if not a questioning type of person.]

Really.

You're not a malak. You're not an exorcist because none of them know how to tell their butts from their brains. And you're not a regular human because you seem to be able to string two words together. So, that leaves a daemon.

[It's a little weird for her not to use the more commonly accepted words from her time, but once upon a time these were the ones in use. And, well, there have been others.]

Curious.

The Lord of Calamity, actually.

[She says it wryly. She's not bragging, it's just the title she's earned. Even if it's one that sounds pretty dumb, honestly. But she figures Eizen's sister has a right to know and would probably recognize it.]

Edited 2017-05-20 02:58 (UTC)

Well, Eizen and Zaveid can certainly pick their friends.

[Edna's voice is devoid of any inflection, but she is more curious about her now.]

Although, I have to say that you're definitely easier to deal with than old Kittybeard.

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