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[eightfoldfiend]

[Risk of violent content or descriptions of violence in comments.]

Tsk!

I check in with the devices and see nothing but idle banter.

[Not that he had the patience to look very long.]

Why are more of you not discussing the Calamity? A vast, all-consuming fire threatens the Infinity and yet you prattle on as if nothing were wrong.

Has the new found power so many of you now have blinded you to the threat? Are you all so busy with your fancy new magic that you... you...

[A sharp, frustrated exhale.]

Bah!

Why do I bother?

What more should I expect from maggots?

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[garyoutensei]

[ Another draw from the pipe, and long exhale. ]

I'm not.

[eightfoldfiend]

Hah!

What type of killer are you, then?

[garyoutensei]

I'm not an assassin, if that's what you're asking.

I mostly hunt Gears, a type of monster from my world.

[eightfoldfiend]

Ah.

[Deep sigh. When he speaks he sounds bored again.]

...How is that not a warrior?

[garyoutensei]

I don't kill for a nation or army. I don't kill for honor or justice. I don't kill to save or protect, or even to glorify myself.

[ You can almost hear her shrugging. ]

And no offense, but I don't know you damn near well enough to say why I kill. You can take my word for it or not, I don't really care. But I'm not a warrior.

[eightfoldfiend]

You kill because you enjoy it.

I enjoy it too.

[garyoutensei]

[ ... ]

Nah. I'm not sure I'd call this joy. I won't be happy, when I've killed the person I most intend to.

I'll just be done.

[eightfoldfiend]

Ah.

Someone with intended prey.

I've known such people.

[garyoutensei]

Yeah. We tend to make for better cautionary tales than stories of glory and conquest.

Either way, that's what's informing my approach. The moment this king or these faeries figure out what it is I need to cut up, that's what I intend to do.

[eightfoldfiend]

You'll want to take you blade to the Knights of the New World, then.

I certainly intend to.

[garyoutensei]

Any word on where they're hiding?

[eightfoldfiend]

No.

[garyoutensei]

[ There's a thwapping sound. The dashing of her pipe against something to empty it. ]

Figured as much. But that's fine... I can be a patient person.

[ Not... exactly true. But she was, when it came to things like this. The opportunity to kill those who were in her way would eventually come. It always did. ]