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12th moon [voice]

[Luceti, Cecil has a question for you.]

Which would be easier to prepare: a roast, a stew or a meat pie?

[...Along with one that is slightly less horrifying.]

Also, after a mission, would you rather take the immediate rewards or the points we can trade? Those patches that can hide us from the droids look useful, but that '80%' of theirs is far from reassuring.

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I know. But with the Malnosso involved, even merely guarding a storehouse could go wrong.

[Complete faith in Ceodore. Complete lack of faith in their captors.]

[There's a long lapse of silence in there. Ceodore caught on to that vote of confidence and still isn't entirely sure it's merited. But... he still likes it. Give him a minute to sort this out for himself.]

You think so?

[He's not actually asking about the possibilities of things going wrong. Too bad he's not got the sense to clarify that.]

[Luckily, he can cover both possibilities in one fell swoop.]

Of course. I'd certainly not waste your talents guarding a simple heap of turnips; I've no doubt they think the same.

[This is a new and novel feeling and you can almost hear the pleased smile in his voice, while at the same time he's being quite earnest.]

I'll do my best not to disappoint you.

Managing to disappoint me would take the greater effort, I believe.

[His 'neutral' mode being 'so very very proud'.]

I... I'm not sure I deserve that, Father.

[But he'd sure like to earn it.]

Oh? Why would you not?

[He's expecting well-thought arguments, young man.]

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I've not done anything to prove myself yet.

[That's his argument more or less. Getting a mummified rat tail doesn't count. Because it was a mummified rat's tail and he didn't experience any miraculous transformations.]

...I suppose I do have the advantage of foresight in this case. I've seen you prove yourself quite a few times, before I arrived. I've also heard what happened on your way to Baron.

[He thinks surviving on the road with no one but Kain for company is proving yourself plenty enough, thank you.]

You know about that?!

[He's thinking about falling off the cliff. Not one of his finer moments. And well... all the rest of the Red Wings going down in the airship crash. Sad times. Nothing to be proud of at all.]

Parts of it, at least. Goodness knows the Devil's Road is far from kind to travellers, especially the first time.

[No one involved was stupid enough to say anything about mountain-climbing to him.]

[...until now.]

You weren't talking about the mountain?

[...Ceodore really does want Kain dead, doesn't he.]

The mountain? What mountain?

[Doesn't everyone?]

The collapsed one between Mist and Damcyan.

[Oh shi- Dad didn't know about that!]

Um...

...

...nevermind.

[Too late.]

The one between- Is the way not completely blocked?

N-no, it is. Uh...

We climbed it!

[Just going to leave off that part about falling, okay? Okay.]

...Climbed it.

[Explain.]

Yeah! I could have never done it without that guy.

[Still not convinced it was Kain. Sorry, Dad. Notice he's pretty enthusiastic about the feat now that it's over. He just... doesn't want to talk about the falling.]

It was the only way to get away from the army.

Kain does have too much experience with mountains...

[Notice the 'Kain' and the 'too much'.]

I would think that you are more than able to defeat a few zombie infantries.

[...And notice that he knows exactly what they were running from.]

[Yeah he noticed and one of these days he'll actually work up the courage to ask why in the world that happened. He's got a fair idea that falls under Bad Things Go Down.]

We managed.

[It was more than a few. :|]

Obviously. You certainly were far from corpse-like when you returned. Surprisingly healthy, even.

[No matter how much the Maenad wished otherwise.]

I suppose. I guess I hadn't thought of it like that.

You'd be surprised by how much that particular detail says about someone.

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