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[This place isn't that big considering there is one particular housing hub, so they are bound to at least see each other out of the corner of their eye. Maybe they are near are near a ruin, maybe they just need fresh air.

In any case, he does see him and just walks over, asking bluntly.]

Why did you feel the need to apologize?

[ he had noticed him out of the corner of his eye, so as soon as he hears his footsteps he groans, pivoting to side-eye him. ] Oh, now you want to talk to me?

You want to apologize. Yet to prevent you from killing me, you want me to apologize to Snail.

It doesn't make sense. Which is it?

[ so it seems like mochi had a talk with him already, since there's no other way he would know he wanted him to apologize to snail. ]

[ he turns and takes a few steps away. ] I don't remember saying I'm in the mood to chit chat.

I'm not going to beg you to stay. You already know this.

I'm trying to square away what is between us. We were Harbingers together after all.

Were. Do you think that still means something? [ it kind of does, but he's not saying that. ] And had you been open to talking before I could and would have told you, but now all I want you to do is apologize to Snail for causing that shitstorm.

I'm asking you if it means anything.

[He listens to the rest and closes his eyes for a moment.]

Is that all you want? An apology for Snail.

[ don't turn this around on him! ] If it means nothing to you, then why does it matter if it means something to me? [ a roundabout way of sort of admitting that, yes, it means something to him... still. very vaguely, but it's still something. ]

No, but at this point I'll take what I can get. [ he doesn't expect much. ]

I wouldn't have reached out to you if it meant nothing.

Then what do you want?

Edited 2023-03-13 05:27 (UTC)

Tell me what it means to you then. [ he folds his arms. ]

[ what does he want? childe can think of at least one thing... but he's not exactly willing to start spilling his guts ( not literally ) to him, when, right now, he barely trusts him. ] ... [ he shuts his eyes, knowing that it's far beyond his reach anyway, and he'd rather not get laughed into fucken oblivion this afternoon. ]

A rematch. [ he could kick himself, honestly. ] We keep it between us.

[ and i forgot to mention that childe's aura has probably changed slightly, and the everlasting lord of arcane wisdom could probably tell. ]

You are right. We aren't friends. But you are a Harbinger, my ally, and that means something.

Fine. One on condition. You cannot try to steal a gnosis.

But you're not a Harbinger. And not only did you steal the electro gnosis, but you also took a second one. I can't imagine you're going to hand either to her Majesty, and that is exactly what we're meant to do. [ so allies? how?? ]

And here I thought I could take one when I win. [ he's mostly kidding. ] Fine, whatever.

Dottore knows where I am. As does the Tsarista. If an agreement needs to be made, we'll make one.

[He narrows his eyes.]

You should ask him how he felt when his gnosis was taken away. Maybe then you won't be so flippant about it.

[ he doesn't trust him. ]

Do you really need both? [ he got to see the gnosis ripped out first hand back on imeeji and he hated it, but he also hated dottore doing it just to be a fucken dick. ]

One is for him. When he gets around to accepting it.

He says he doesn't want it, but maybe one day he will.

[ him? him as in... mochi... ]

[ ??? ]

[ he doesn't know the whole story ( or... much of it, really ) but it kind of seems like he moved on... although, he can never really predict scaramouche, so that could potentially change. ]

[ childe hums, summoning a hair of hydro swords to his hands. ] I won't touch either of them.

Good. I wouldn't forgive you if you did. I'm still mad about the previous attempt.

This would be better away from the houses. I don't want Snail swooping in on our matters.

I did it because I knew it would piss you off, and you deserved to have something precious taken from you, since you killed Mochi.

Fine. Let’s go to the forest. [ he turns into a fox and just starts walking there. ]

And this is why we'll never be friends, Tartaglia.

[Follows him until they get far enough away so that a fight won't draw attention.]

I'd say killing is off limits, but that would spoil your fun. But let's try not to.

Oh please. You like getting under my skin too. I already said I wasn’t going to take them. [ he murmurs something after, about finding another way to get one. ]

I’m not interested in killing you at the moment and I would rather not die a second time. [ he’s still recovering, which is part of the reason he didn’t want to do this, but his mouth is cashing checks his ass can’t cash. ]

I know enough basic healing to patch you up.

[He just assumes Tartaglia wants to fight all the time, so he doesn't notice any reservations. He summons his swords, one crackling with lightning and the other made of vines and briars holding a greenish hue.]

Show me how much you've improved now that I can appreciate it.

[ if he had just died instead of changing and then dying he’d be more excited, but as it stands he’s just mentally exhausted. ]

[ still, he summons a hydro bow to his hands and takes aim… an enormous narwhal cresting from behind him as childe fires off six consecutive shots infused with electro. ]

That's not subtle.

[Not that he really cares, but damaging large swatches of the forest is probably ill advised. He whips up vines from the floor to dodge most of the arrows, one or two hit him scratching as his skin, but the electro he just seems to absorb.

And just to be a prick, a storm of lightning starts to appear above them same as when they fought in the forest earlier. He's not being subtle either.

He knows the range on that whale so he backs up, but shoots vines at Childe to hold him in place.]

[ he changes into a snake to slip through and then shifts into a rhino to charge at him, the earth behind him becoming something like a rolling wave as it launches him at scaramouche. ]

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