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[kometes]

You do? You must be a swimmer, then.


Kids do that. I was a brat once, too.

From the war?

[fessus]

Not really it just relaxes me. Plus it gives me a chance to fish.

She was sick. I don't really remember any of it.

[kometes]

I hadn't known you liked to fish. Have you ever tried spear fishing?

Did your father have time to rear you in her place? [ Archaic standards make him sexist. Sorry. ]

[fessus]

No I never really practiced my swimming enough to think I'd be that great at it. Not that I think I'd be bad... when it comes to fishing I'm at the top.

"Rear" me? You mean raise me?

[kometes]

At the top? That's the first I've ever heard you gloat about something. I need to see it for myself.

Yes.

[fessus]

Gonna be kinda hard considering the circumstances. There's no free range fishing allowed out here - animals are pretty rare anyway.

I had tutors and nurses. Why ask about that anyway?

[kometes]

I noticed that since being here. It makes the world seem lifeless, doesn't it?

I wanted to know how close you were.
You admire your father a lot.

[fessus]

Idk they're lots of animals I haven't really heard of. The ones I have are still around in some places though, and there's lots of people to fill up the space.

You're talking like you've already got the answers anyway.

[kometes]

I'm used to being surrounded by nature. Even in my father's kingdom, you were never far from the beach or the forrest.

I've got some. I'm filling in the gaps.
Am I being insensitive? Sometimes I don't notice.

[fessus]

Sounds nice.

And yeah asking a guy if his dad had time for him isn't something most people wanna deal with. We cared about each other but ofc we were both busy, that's how things are. I get that. I've always gotten that.

[kometes]

Tell me about your kingdom.


I wasn’t raised by my father or mother either. My teacher was Chiron, a centaur who had taught many other heroes.
You must have had someone like that, someone who was like a father or mother to you even if you weren’t blood related.

[fessus]

What do you wanna know about it? It's big, there are mountains and valleys, swamps, rivers..... most people live in the crown city though, or did.

Ig my first nurse, maybe. What's a centaur?

[kometes]

How many people lived in your kingdom?[ That will give him an idea of how... major Noctis is. ]

A centaur is half man, half horse! You don’t have centaurs in the world you’re from?
What is your nurse’s name? Tell me about them! I’ll be sure to take care of you just as well as they did.

[fessus]

[ It's a question he actually has a ready answer for, giving the amount of reports he's had to read on the issue. ]

About 16 million.

Uh no we don't even have horses. I've looked them up though so ig I can do the same thing with centaurs to understand it better. All of the stuff from Earth is online.

[kometes]

What? That many? That’s more of the size of an entire empire , don’t you think? How many states are there?

I can draw you a picture.

[fessus]

There aren't states, it's a kingdom.

And yeah if you want to, then I'll have multiple refs in case yours is different somehow.

[kometes]

Like I said, that’s way too big to be one kingdom.
My father’s kingdom was the size of an ant in comparison.

Well, imagine the torso of a man where the head of the horse should be.

[fessus]

Okay..... It's still a kingdom, I should know. Since it's mine.

[ god, Achilles ] It's not a competition or w/e, they're just different sizes.

Also ew.

[kometes]

I never planned on succeeding my father anyway. If I did, I'd definitely make sure my kingdom became bigger than yours.


Why do you say ew? Don't you think it's cool?

[fessus]

I JUST said it isn't a competition, that's not what ruling is about lmao

Cool to be half-animal? Maybe but that one sounds gross.

[kometes]

I wouldn't have interest in being king. I'd have to make it fun. And I like winning.

You haven't met my teacher! He's amazing. He can kick harder than any regular guy I know, that's for sure.

[fessus]

Come on you can do better than that. If you like winning then try to be the best king you can be, which means thinking about your people first. That's obvious.

Okay? Do horses kick or something?

[kometes]

I've never met a great king.
I even have my doubts that my own father was a better king than he was a hero.
It's a hard job, being relied on by so many people. And men get easily blinded by greed. We call that hubris.

They've got powerful legs. I can still feel the blows from my training days....

[fessus]

Well I have, so I'm speaking from experience. I've heard of hubris and gotten a lot of lectures about getting power-hungry, never really worried about it. Different people have different problems ig.

And this is the guy that raised you?

[kometes]

You have a pure heart. My teacher always told me that many seek to take advantage of that. He still calls me naive, you know.
I wonder what that would make you.

He did.