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[VALE]

graphic gore ★ genderfluid ★ three eyed raven

The question on where to drop the elemental was solved after a bit of a mess. The original idea was to toss him in a cell where the cannibals kept the fight pits’ death fodder, but that seemed like a hellish way to chance on Kole’s hard-won capture getting killed or eaten by a random hungry cannibal. Vale had joked about keeping the beastie in xyr inquisitor quarters, which Meteor had decided was stupidier than using the fight pits’ cells. Which, yeah, Vale considered that fair.

So Kane ended up in a lava tube off the Doctor’s Caves. Metal bars and all, just like the fight pits’ cells, but at least he wouldn’t be mistaken for expendable death fodder.

Vale supposed this meant Kane would have to deal with Xanti’s weed thoughts, but, eh, maybe the guy would benefit from being neighbors with a smart cannibal? Vale thought it odd that Kane still hadn’t figured out what he was negotiating with, either. Hadn’t he met anyone of their kind before? Antisocials were rare, Vale knew, but Vale’s mom (Ninazu) had been a psychopath, and xe’d ended up in the Descendants of the Departed because xe was looking for an antisocial romance option and figured cannibals would be a great place to hang around and wait for one to appear.

But all of that was Vale Weirdness. Even Vale could see that.

The raven flew through the cave system. Xyr feet clutched small bag of rattling trinkets.

Admittedly, Vale hadn’t immediately set down for the talk xe’d promised Kane. Xe’d sent an NPC to deliver a boiled coconut crab, sure, but xe had to figure out the right approach. Therefore, xe consulted Xanti, because, well, Meteor thought this was a waste of time. But, just maybe, Xanti had a point about quoting the Tao Te Ching: To give no trust is to get no trust. This was romancing a psychopath on expert mode! As if the trust handshake wasn’t already complicated enough! Vale cackled to xemself at the absurdity of this nonsense.

The raven landed on the bars on Kane’s cell. Xe wasn’t inside, but, well, maybe the beastie’d feel better if there were metal bars between him and the gore shapeshifter?

With xyr beak, Vale tapped on the metal bar. Then looked to Kane and cawed, “Nevermore!”

YOU NEVER TRUSTED ME ★

BUT I’M OVER IT NOW

[W]isker