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[loverofinnocence]

[Video feed gives way to a mostly dark room. A lamp in the far corner is dim, implying the bulb is likely on its last 'limbs'. Caim sits at his desk, so like the one he had before. Almost everything is the same, except the layout is a little different and the wall once filled with a mural in the making - later covered in black - is no longer there.

Idly the prince wonders what might have come of his room.

He makes no initial movements, simply sits and stares at his monitor. He seems more like a silhouette in those moments, but eventually his hands move. A bracelet on his left wrist makes a very soft sound as it meets his desk.]

Divine providence. It delights me not.

[It seems as good a greeting as any.]

Comments

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[genderbentmario]

I don't think I'm any more forgiving than the average person, honestly. I'd like to be, but I'm not. I just don't see any reason to be hard-hearted toward you.

[Lord knows she's got some grudges in her heart. Some part of her is still kinda bitter toward Red, and Giovanni's definitely not gonna be her best bud anytime soon. But on the other hand, there's Silver -- he was a thief, a jerk, and mean to his Pokemon, but ended up becoming the kind of person she was proud to call her friend, and that's something that's stuck with her a lot.]

I mean, how can I be, when you've got an attitude like that? I'm liking the sound of this stuff a whole lot more than that hating divine province noise.

[Divine province. Yes. That's definitely what it is.]

[video]

[loverofinnocence]

[He almost smiles when he hears her. Divine province, hm? In a less amusing way, Caim would certainly say wherever Furiae's location - the Castle of the Goddess - was certainly a divine... province. But he doesn't bother to make any mention of that.]

I possess strong sentiments for some ideals. Divine providence is one of them.

That aside, perhaps your nature will polish off onto others who are too much like stone.

[There's hypocrisy in his words. After all, he was much akin to stone for a great deal of time...]

[video]

[genderbentmario]

Maybe! But I kinda have the feeling that it'll be you softening people up, not me. Even the hugests grumps can recognize when people have good in them. Or, that's what I think, at least.

[video]

[loverofinnocence]

You may very well be right, miss.

I intend to instruct a fencing class here. If you believe it would interest you, perhaps you ought to attend.

[video]

[genderbentmario]

Fencing, huh? Like, with swords?

[DUDE... there are maybe a few highly-romanticized unrealistic daydreams about being some kind of Zorro-style ultrahero flittering through her head. Being able to keep up with her Pokemon was an idea that was important to her, and it was turning out that she maybe wasn't the best boxer out there, so... maybe having a weapon would suit her a little better, right?]

Alright, you can count me in. Try anything once, that's what I always say.

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[loverofinnocence]

[Sorry, Lyra. Caim's not a thing like Zorro. But somehow knowing her, she may think he is anyway.]

Then I look forward to seeing you there.

[Which is another sort of sentence he could never picture himself saying. This return has him full of them.]