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[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Robin
Broadcast: Voice
Action: None
When: Shortly after dragon slaying shenanigans.

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[this message goes out to the whole fleet, voice-only. he sounds uncharacteristically serious. almost tense.]

To everyone involved with that dragon that showed up, listen--did anyone find a gemstone near his body? A necklace, maybe?

["It's important," goes without saying.]





[[ooc: this post is going up just to settle time-sensitive soul-binding stuff... said dragon slaying is still happening so keep tagging into that and don't feel like you missed anything. C:]]

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voice; encrypted

[serpentis]

[Oh, goodie, that sounds like Robin. Not his favorite person.]

I suppose it entirely depends on what your business is with it.

voice; encrypted

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[oh, goodie, it's encrypted. even if Dorian is bluffing and doesn't have it--he can talk about Tek's secrets without worrying about blowing his big secret weakness to the whole fleet.]

He's supposed to be one of the people in this fleet. His soul is in that gem. If it doesn't get back to a body soon, it's going to get torn apart.

He won't just be dead, he'll be permanently obliterated. I can't let that happen.

voice; encrypted

[serpentis]

[He weighs the options here. Either he can leave it and let the person-as-dragon to be obliterated, or he could return it.

Dorian has a good sense of wrong, and letting whoever it was be permanently destroyed and erased ticks that "wrong" category. So he sighs softly.]

So who is it, then? Anyone I might have known?

voice; encrypted

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Tekhetsio. Jove knew him.

[Robin only knows Jove by proxy, but... they must have all been surprised when the dragon turned back into someone from the fleet, especially Jove. he bites down a natural want to insist that it wasn't Tek's fault.]

Has he spoken to you, yet?

voice; encrypted

[serpentis]

[That confirmed that, then. Dorian hadn't seen him fall up close, decay starting to set in by the time he reached the corpse and took the stone from where it had been.]

We've spoken several times before. When I arrived, at the gala...

[His voice is warm with his own sarcastic wit.]

audio;

[noctiphile]

"His body"? Don't tell me—did someone kill it?

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[birdsbirdsbirds]

That's what it looks like.

[noctiphile]

Barbarians. [Surprisingly, he's leaving it at that, a distracted pause wearing thin by the time he speaks again.] I'm no help with what you're looking for, but if anything else comes up—[he hesitates.]—Call me. A creature like that deserves better.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[he's... not sure how to take that. but he supposes it's good that Mattias is trying to help, even if he knows nothing of the situation. so it's only a short pause before he responds:]

All right. I'll let you know.

audio;

[got_it_memorized]

[Axel felt the strange disturbance, but decided he was pointedly Not Getting Involved. He's had enough dealings with dark things for a lifetime, thanks very much, and he hightailed it back to the volcano and his ship as soon as people started going for their pitchforks.

[You can practically hear his arched eyebrow, though.]

Looking for a classy necklace to go with your perfume bottle, are we?

audio;

[birdsbirdsbirds]

You know me. I'm high-end.

[he hates to be such a downer, but his reply sounds especially dry and short.]

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[got_it_memorized]

Yup, you're just a classy kind'a guy.

[And then he filters it from there.]

So what's a classy guy like you sound so uptight about? Is there more to this whole dragon business we should know about?

audio; > encrypted

[birdsbirdsbirds]

No. It doesn't concern anyone but me.

[and he sounds unfortunately--really rather uncharacteristically--short about it.]

voice; encrypted

[ino]

How are you always mixed up in the weird dangerous shit that's going on around here?!

voice; encrypted

[birdsbirdsbirds]

I don't try to make a habit of it!

voice; encrypted

[ino]

Uh-huh. So did you find it?

voice; encrypted

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[a long-suffering sigh.]

Yeah, I found it.

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[puro]

[Robin. Robin what. ]

...I'm almost afraid to ask.

Voice

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Don't worry about it.

[Manolo just don't even start. turn around. go back to your whatever you do.]

[puro]

[What he does is care, sorry bro. ]

Saying 'don't worry about it' doesn't actually make people stop worrying, you know.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Then worry, and know that I'm not about to talk about it.

[he sounds... annoyed. Robin has never really sounded annoyed towards Manolo before.]

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[justamobster]

[ He's keeping his voice as neutral as possible. Which is quite a feat, since dragon murder is definitely one of his biggest sore spots. ]

People on these ships killed a dragon?

[ He should have stuck around, made sure it was safe. God damn it. ]

[ Audio ]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Unfortunately...

[...is probably not the word he should have used there, but it's what came out of his mouth. he's a little distracted.]

[ Audio ]

[justamobster]

[ Well, it's good to know what company he's in. Both in terms of those who slay dragons and those who find it unfortunate. ]

Not somethin' you expect t'hear 'bout in space.

[ Audio ]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Well, this little venture pulls in all kinds... Dragons and slayers alike, apparently.

[he's... trying not to be bitter and frustrated, but it's hard to keep it completely out of his voice. his alignment here is pretty obvious.]