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[dragonflight]

Who: Wrathion; perhaps you
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Three Twins, if you want to find him steepling his fingers somewhere and grinning too much
When: N-n-now

[Wrathion can't say he's exactly settled in yet. He's been assigned a ship; he has a position; he's met some people. He's learned a little--some of it interesting (so many different kinds of people already), some of it repellent (some of these kinds ought to wear a little more clothing), some of it merely filed away for later examination. Then there was Belthazar. Not trusting, no, but desperate. The best kind of person to help.

Wrathion's sitting at some table on his ship, looking into the camera, his smile as cheerful and full of teeth as always. Of all the experiences he's had in his short time here, one does stand out as particularly interesting.

That warning.]

My friends.

[Because we're all friends, right? Right.]

A little bird told me something fascinating. He warned me right off the bat about the current population of this Fleet.

In fact--

[Wrathion leans forward, his smile only widening.]

-- he implied quite directly that the lot of you were bloodthirsty murderers. Tell me, is this so? Am I among a congregation of fierce warriors? Of people prepared to kill at a moment's notice--no matter the target?

I should very much like to know.

Comments

[openhands]

You are twisting my words. [For your own smug sense of superiority is not what she says, but it could certainly be implied from her tone.] I didn't say that it's impossible for a warrior to gain something for themselves. A victory for their cause is something larger than themselves and not something a murderer would have.

[dragonflight]

My lady, I assure you, I mean no disrespect. I merely wish to strike at the heart of the issue.

Which, to my mind, is this: no one ever thinks himself a murderer. And yet so many people kill so many others, every day. It's interesting, that's all.

[openhands]

Because you look at something complex and make it into its simplest parts. Of course from that perspective, you would be correct. But nothing is ever quite that simple.

[dragonflight]

No? I think the opposite. Blood is blood; killing is killing. It is simple. So long as you don't lose yourself in semantics.

[openhands]

[Nope, she definitely does not like this nonsense coming out of his mouth even a little bit. Cassandra frowns and shakes her head.]

Spoken like someone ready to dismiss and justify his actions at any moment.