pc ♠ fidelio

[fried]

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[fending]

[ blinks ]

So... Out there, off the planet? [ gestures at the sky ] Like the train?

[fried]

Mm. Think one of your ships that crosses the ocean, but across the stars, instead, so - yes. Just like the Astral Express, but much, much bigger.

[fending]

Guess 'middle of nowhere' was right, but in a very different way to how I meant it.

[fried]

The right answer, with the wrong math.

Did you have a permanent place to stay?

[fending]

...Well, we had our rooms on Count Louis's skyrunner. Basically considered that home, we'd been there for years.

[fried]

I don't know that I've heard that name before. Who is Count Louis?

[fending]

You haven't?

[ huh. ]

We were officers in his army. He was aimin' to be the next king, and we were helpin' him get there, by whatever means necessary.

Realised a little too late that weren't actually a good idea. [ ... ] I realised it too late. Bas got there a while before I did.

[fried]

[ oh. huh. somehow he has not heard about any of this. ]

Ah, I see. [ mulls that over... ] I do know a little about the function of your world, at least. In that I know how you are treated.

[ ... ]

I assume this Count Louis sold you on a plan to fix that. [ he thinks both brothers wouldn't put their support behind a king unless that king aimed to make the world better for everybody, not just him. ]

[fending]

[ that's fair, he guesses; louis is a sore point for both of them, but it's different for basilio as the one who's had to live with the aftermath.

he nods. ]

A world of equality where your birth don't matter, and people of all tribes have a chance to succeed based on their own merits. And it weren't just talk neither; he treated the paripus within his ranks with respect, even made the likes of us into his right hand men.

Ruthless against anyone who went against him, but time was, I saw that as a sellin' point rather than a downside. Didn't have to worry about him bending to anyone else's influence like the spineless king we had before.

[fried]

I can see where you're coming from. A decisive man can be someone worth following. But - in my experience, a man who never allows anybody to disagree with him, who never sees other points of view? That's dangerous.

[ his tail swishes back and forth as he thinks about this. ]

It sounds like perhaps you and Basilio both experienced the downside firsthand.

[fending]

In a manner of speaking, yeah.

[fried]

That sounds like a story.

[fending]

It ain't that much of one. We got in his way to stop him from doin' something we couldn't let him do, and I died.

[fried]

[ a frown... all of them are dead, so he's not surprised to hear this, but. ]

... I'm sorry that he turned on you. [ his voice suggests that he thinks louis is a shit. ]

[fending]

Was bound to happen eventually. Turns out the man's just a bloody lunatic.

[ it's still conflicted, because louis did a lot of genuinely good things for them personally, and they really would have died a long time ago if he hadn't so drastically changed the trajectory of their lives. fidelio absolutely wants the bastard dead now, no question about that, but. it's complicated. ]

[fried]

Still. It's hard to watch your General change right in front of your own eyes, after you've served him so ardently.

[ ... ]

Basilio told me a little about the captain he hopes will rule instead. I liked his vision.

[fending]

...Yeah. He ain't all bad.

[fried]

A raving review.

[fending]

He's too naive, and he's got an annoying mouth on him. Don't much like this prince business either.

But... yeah. He's got a nice vision, even if it's not exactly realistic.

[fried]

The world needs an equal balance of those who are realistic, and those who are idealistic. It makes things work.

Perhaps he'll listen to your ideas, when you return to life. Surely you can help guide him down a more feasible path.