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RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
"I'm listening. Y'know what I'm hearing?" Thal slapped one hand against bare rock. "A buncha wormcrap! 'I'm dooming my whole family, but I'm doing it for them.' Ya know how stupid that sounds?"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
"I really don't know. How stupid can something sound to an idiot?" K'ile punched the rock and shook his head, wincing as pain radiated from his skull. "Augh, are we really going to argue about this? Again? I'm not dooming anyone. Except you, if I get the chance, but you've got Thal himself on your side or something."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
Thal blinked. "I have... myself? On my side?" He shook his head then, ears fluttering, and lashed his tail against the rock behind him. "Hey! Yeah! We're gonna argue about this. I mean--no! We're not because there's nothing to argue about! You're not gonna give over a bunch of people to be tempered. Just isn't happening."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
"Well thanks to you the offer's probably off the table anyway!" K'ile gestured vaguely northward, then southward, then just spread his arms and didn't know where to gesture anymore. "At this point the best I can do is talk the tribe into surrendering. Or take all the weapons or something. But you're just going to beat me up again, so, hey, what are you going to do about it? Yell at me about, and nothing else!"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
Thal groaned at that and pawed at his hair with one hand in frustration. "That was kinda the idea behind talking and, y'know, working it out together. That's too much, huh? Don't wanna work with the dead guy. Ugh." He kicked at a loose rock, sending it skittering down the side of the rockface in a small cloud of dust. "Alright. My solution? Go tell the people who fight those guys for a living that there's gonna be an attack. Get your family some protection. How's that for a dead, stupid guy?"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
"Sure, yeah, you go right up and tell them all about it." K'ile lifted his hands to put pressure on the bases of his ears, wincing, but it helped his headache a bit. "I just hope they hear you over the sound of their own screams once they see your tattered flesh hanging from your bones." The Tia scowled up at the girl on the rocks. "Thanks a lot for ruining my mental image of my brother, K'aijeen!"
The dead girl's lips scowled beneath her veil. "I'll ruin your mental... head. I'll ruin your head."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
"No, you're gonna tell 'em. And kid, don't. Just... stop." Scraped and tanned fingers pulled roughly through strands of red-orange hair. He glared down at K'ile through the holes in his mask. "You can't seriously just want to give up their lives over your dumbass mistake when there's a perfectly good solution right in front of ya?"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
"What solution is that? Do you want me to go, what, convince a bunch of strangers to help a tribe in the desert? Our tribe is nobody to anyone, and hostile to outsiders, and it'll just make things more violent anyway, and you don't get to boss me around just because you gave me a headache." K'ile's tail whipped around behind him. "I'm not throwing anything away. I'm handling it. Or I was before you dragged me off."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
"Doesn't look like handling it." Thal scoffed. "Handling it involves not handing over people to Amal'jaa. The hell's wrong with you to make that kind of call anyway? You've got no right making that kind of decision for other people!"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
"Versus letting them all die off?" K'ile gestured southward. "Used to be the Amal'jaa and Miqo'te tribes didn't have a problem with each other. It's only the past few years things have gone sideways, and if we can put that behind us, what's the problem?"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
"What's the problem," Thal laughed dubiously. "What's the problem. Really? What's the problem with being tempered! Hah! It's no big deal, just giving yourself over to a primal. Slaves to the Amal'jaa! What could go wrong?"
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
K'ile didn't bother to respond to that, just crossing his arms and scowling at the man.
On the top of the rocks, K'aijeen remained silent for several seconds longer, burned tail shivering behind her, before she said with some fear, "They'll come again. Maybe soon."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
Thal groaned and shook his arms in frustration. "I can't just leave you to... ugh." He looked up and muttered to seemingly no one, "Could really use your fancy problem-solving skills about now, old man."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Twinflame - 03-09-2015
K'aijeen and K'ile both looked at Thal like they didn't know what he was talking about. K'ile's expression resolved into frustration. "The Twelve can't help you, and not all problems have perfect solutions. That's why I'm here doing this. My solution doesn't end with violence and death. It ends with my family being well-fed and secure."
RE: None of Us Would Ever Come Home Again [closed] - Naunet - 03-09-2015
"Doesn't end with--what, you think the slaves the Amal'jaa keep are well-fed and secure?" Thal barked out a laugh and shook his head in disbelief. "I walked through that camp of theirs. They might not've known it, but they were suffering."