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I would call you many names before I called you imbecilic.

[Totally dry.]

As I am also not an imbecile, I will tell you that I do know what the Inquisition is worried about. I am neither a Templar nor a Rifter. What I am, is unhappy to be locked in isolation with people I don't like, for the sake of a precaution. If we threw the Templars and the Rifters into the bay, we would all be equally protected from contagions. A more sensible precaution in many ways.

And I think you would have to cut your hair if you were to pass for Kostos. And you would look terrible with short hair. I suggest you get your own twin rather than try to use mine.

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champions

I do love it when you grumble.

( It's probably a more reliable means to make sure he's alive than checking his breathing or heartbeat. Just see if he's grumbling about something, everything will be fine. )

Alas, I could not have a twin. I have far too great a need to be everyone's favourite. A twin would be too much competition.

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exsecutus

Mm,

[says Nikos, and it comes out quite grumbly.]

Speaking from experience, you would adjust. Find some way to become superior. For example: I became the charming one.

[j o k e s]

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champions

By Nevarran standards, perhaps; I think not even the very finest Antivan charms are enough to temper Nevarran severity. And that's not comment on your mother, either, you know she is my favourite aunt.

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exsecutus

Though it is a comment against me. You know, "favorite" begins to lose weight when it is applied to so many.

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champions

I just know so many wonderful people, and have a great deal of affection to grant each of them. Of course, you are my favourite favourite.

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exsecutus

Nikos, Marisol. I am Nikos.

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champions

Nikos, from the Antivan word for wondrous splendour.

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exsecutus

[cousins]

Comes out closer to unrealistic expectations in Nevarran. Language is amazing.

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champions

Isn't it?

( c: ) Antiva is a naturally more optimistic place. It's all the flamingos, very uplifting.

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exsecutus

I must have been living in the part of Antiva where the flamingo shit gets shoveled.

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champions

Did you put yourself to good use?

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exsecutus

Never. Nikos, remember?

[As if she's perhaps confused as to who she is speaking with.]

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champions

Mm. I can't work out if you are saying that because you have a low opinion of yourself, or you want other people to have low expectations.

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exsecutus

Why can it not be both?

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champions

That is worse.

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exsecutus

[Nikos sighs, sharply.]

Marisol, if you start to show concern for my self-esteem, I am going to throw myself off of a tall tower and give you something to really be concerned about.

Why are you not overseeing redecoration of your fifth salon or whatever excessive room is in fashion right now.

Edited (so much emphasis) Date: 2018-02-11 07:31 am (UTC)

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champions

Oh, boca de dragon. ( Snapdragon. She likes to call him snapdragon. Because he's Nevarran, but also a dramatic flower. Also that translation might be wrong, don't trust the internet. ) Entrails are so tiresome to clean up, and they upset the flamingos.

I don't have time for my fifth salon, let alone my sixth, but because I have an excessive cousin who is more dramatic than is fashionable, right now.

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exsecutus

[A nickname he both despises and, despite himself, appreciates. A little. In a way he would never, ever admit, no matter how drunk or ill or on his deathbed. Which means: Nikos gives a wordless grumble. Resigned.]

Very blasé and Antivan of you. I don't give a single shit about fashion. But I am not dramatic. I am quarantined. It is the opposite of dramatic.

You should teach your flamingos to eat entrails.

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champions

One can be dramatic and quarantined. If anything, I think that would bring it out in people.

( And, laughter. ) Perhaps they can become a terrifying second army.

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exsecutus

You’re Antivan. I must defer to your knowledge of dramatics, prima.

[Very serous. As is:]

As to your flamingos, I will say if I saw a herd of flamingos walking toward me, I would walk the other way. It wouldn’t involve my intestines at all.