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[helluvamess]

"If you're hearing this then I can't be fucked answering right now or some other shit-covered fuckwich is going down on this boat so I'll get back to you when the fuck I can!"

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[The door to Blitzø's cabin looks like a typical shitty apartment door. Inside is pretty much exactly a shitty apartment. The door marked "Loona's room" does not open when tried and it appears that Blitzø himself sleeps on the couch. The walls are covered with images and drawings of horses, however every picture of Blitzø has his face scribbled over.]

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Comments

[abrightboy]

And I meant the part of what I said when I said I don’t hate you.

[helluvamess]

So I guess it's like not really caring either way, huh? Guess that makes sense.

[abrightboy]

It’s not that either. I helped you when you asked because I like you.

[helluvamess]

Why? Did you miss the part where I'm a dick on purpose just now?

[abrightboy]

No, that just made it interesting when you didn’t respond well to someone being a dick on purpose back at you. Like I said, it’s clearly a defense mechanism to keep people at arms’ length. They can’t abandon you if you make them not like you to start with, right?

[helluvamess]

It's different when you do it.

[It's said grudgingly, the words having to be dragged out a little. He has an idea why, but it's admitting a lot that he's not sure that he wants to admit as much to Malcolm.]

And I'm not scared of people abandoning me!

[abrightboy]

No? Well, I guess you’re just a complicated being beyond my ken. So. What does the palisman look like? Can I see it?

[helluvamess]

[It's probably good that Malcolm can't see him roll his eyes at that. Sure, part of what he said is right, but it's also not entirely true either. Although he has zero plans to share that with the man.

Instead he switches on the video and gets up from his couch to move around the tiny apartment, giving Malcolm a glimpse of a small space with no bed and an overwhelming number of pictures on the walls. Tucked against a wall where it won't get tripped over is a box with crudely cut doors and drawings of horses on it. Staples, a tiny pink and black hellhorse is eating a chunk of raw meat outside.]

Isn't she beautiful??

[abrightboy]

[He’s immediately very charmed by her.]

She is! She’s gorgeous. What’s her name?

[helluvamess]

Staples! She's my daughter.

[abrightboy]

She’s lovely. Congratulations.

[helluvamess]

She's probably the best palisman ever. [He's not biased at all.]

So... do you know why Kiki doesn't have one?

[abrightboy]

She told me that they help people who don’t have magic to be able to learn it and that she has magic naturally.

[helluvamess]

Hunter said it has more to do with the shitty Emperor from their world.

[Is this possibly sensitive information that Kiki wouldn't want him sharing? Probably! He's gonna do it anyway though.]

The people working for him weren't allowed them and had to give them up if they had one when they wanted to join, and the fucker would eat them. My guess is that if she didn't have to give one up herself, she had to deal with some of that shit.

[abrightboy]

I’m familiar with the shitty Emperor and his policies.

[helluvamess]

And you believed her when she said that she didn't need a palisman? Like having one wouldn't make her more powerful and that's exactly what she'd usually want?

[abrightboy]

We didn’t discuss whether she wanted one. We talked about why she wanted you to have one.

[helluvamess]

Well I asked why she didn't have one and she was pretty defensive and didn't want to talk about it.

Do you think she did used to have one?

[abrightboy]

I don't. That doesn't mean she doesn't want one, but I don't think she had one before because Belos killed Princess to make his point to her.

[helluvamess]

Wait, what? Who the fuck is Princess?

[abrightboy]

Her dragon. I got her back for her as a Christmas present.