99th moon [Another Brick in the 4th Wall]

[paladinlost]

[Every day, many wasteful acts are committed across the world: nearly empty shampoo bottles are thrown away, ice cream bowls are not carefully scraped clean with a spoon, quality cold cuts are not placed between slices of freshly-baked bread, regained magic is not cast...

Cecil Harvey is not a wasteful person.

In fact, he's such an unwasteful person that he spends a large part of the weekend teleporting up to random confused souls, offering them ice cream and sandwiches aplenty, and teleporting away.

All of that with hair that looks like it came out of a shampoo commercial, of course.]

Comments

[dragoon_pride]

I'd argue that children don't need safety, they need to face the world as it really is and learn from it.

[paladinlost]

...And what if the world they are currently in truly is safe, as far as worlds go?

[dragoon_pride]

Are there truly worlds like that?

[Aren't they all filled with warriors and a Really Bad Antagonist?]

[paladinlost]

A surprising number of them, according to people with whom I've spoken.

[dragoon_pride]

Could that truly be possible? Aren't conflicts and wars universal on all worlds? Surely no one could manage to be so entirely peaceful. Not all the time anyway.

[paladinlost]

Perhaps not all the time, but long enough for certain people to never know war during their lifetime.

[dragoon_pride]

How strange that must be... to never have such a threat... and rather dull.

[But he's always had a rather warrior mentality, he's not sure how to exist in any other way... especially after the gods' conflict.]

[paladinlost]

Many a parent would wish for such dullness in their child's life, if only to ensure they'd someday have grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

[dragoon_pride]

Boring concerns. Far better to gain experience and become a real man in the process.

[paladinlost]

...Do remind me to keep an eye on any children you might have in the future, until they reach adulthood.

[dragoon_pride]

I have enough on hand with new dragoon recruits.

[Well, that is when he's actually IN Baron. But still. Even before he left, dealing with soft and weak recruits was forever a challenge.]

[paladinlost]

Are you certain? I can also send you the squires, if you need additional experience with young children.

[Those poor unprepared squires.]

[dragoon_pride]

Well, someone needs to harden them up, make real men out of them.

[Yeah they have nooooo idea what they're in for.]

[paladinlost]

What makes you think you'd be influencing them? They'd outnumber you, after all.

[dragoon_pride]

I’m older, stronger, and in command. Case closed.

[paladinlost]

...Ten gil on the children winning at least once.

[dragoon_pride]

What a truly ridiculous notion!

[paladinlost]

I've seen plenty of ridiculous events occur in this world. I'm now willing to bet on that one.

[dragoon_pride]

Are these events more ridiculous than anything we've seen elsewhere?

[paladinlost]

It once rained living and unhappy cats and dogs for two days.

[That would be a 'yes'.]

[dragoon_pride]

Rained... but... How? And how did they survive the fall? Had they been trained as dragoons?

[Falling is kind of his specialty, after all.]

[paladinlost]

Not at all. Pokémon are merely extremely difficult to kill, though they can certainly be injured or traumatized.

[dragoon_pride]

That's a relief for them, although I could imagine it'd still have been... inconvenient for all affected by it.

[paladinlost]

It was an unpleasant experience for everyone present at the time, though it did lead to some happy partnerships.

[dragoon_pride]

Did it? Well, that's at least... useful. Difficult circumstances can have that effect.