voice;

[amoray]

So what are you gonna do when they outlaw all that superheroin' nonsense you all lowe so damn much?

[to his credit, he's trying to sound grave. (it isn't working.)]

We take this - and we're goin' to, since we got such big pushers for mustard-bellied diplomacy in charge around here - they ain't gonna be satisfied 'til they got us all on leashes. And at the first signs a dissent, they're gonna hang us by 'em. I sure hope you lot can handle the usage a our powers bein' a criminal offense, since that's the next thing to go. A Wulcanus gun in ewery Natiwe hand and a trackin' chip in ewery filthy imPort, right?

[a theatrical pause. contrary to his usual habit of getting worked up in his tirades, eridan's been very calm (albeit smug in his "my unreasonable paranoia was entirely justified" kind of way) but no less intense throughout.]

We start goin quietly into that good fuckin' nocturnal phase and we aint newer gonna stop.

Comments

[amoray]

Sure; shake your hand on one side, hide a knife in the other. If anybody's goin' to be lookin' to play nice, they got no issues with blowin' you outta the fuckin' water the moment it suits 'em better.

They don't like us. I bet some of 'em don't ewen consider us people.

[viced]

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. There's a hell of a lot of merit in taking the high road and showing them that we're going to work with them anyway.

Besides, some of us are fucking dragons, or robots, it takes a lot of effort to get people to change their preconceptions anyway.

[amoray]

You wouldn't last the week back on Alternia.

[viced]

Well good thing I'm from Planet Earth instead of Alternia.

[amoray]

That ain't the point. The point is that you're fuckin' weak.

Still don't know what Ed sees in you.

[viced]

Maybe he knows me better than you think you do. Ever think of that?

[amoray]

No, 'cos I know him.

Moirail or not, sooner or later your unwillinness to spit in some faces and slit some throats is goin' to clash with his bein' just as fuckin' awful as I am, you know that?

[viced]

He's not as awful as you, just so you know. Shit, he's not even fucking close.

[amoray]

[laugh... ter...........]

[viced]

You think that's fucking funny, do you? You've got a track record of being wrong.

[amoray]

I think it's fuckin' hilarious.

You honestly think you got him leashed, don't you? And not in that weird kinky way I'm sure he'd no doubt get a fuckin' kick out of, I mean with all a those murderous impulses he's got.

[viced]

No, I don't set out to proverbially "leash" anyone. We're equals.