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He had spent a good deal of time alone. After Argent's incident, he had largely kept to himself, at first not wanting to see his friends, and to see them pity him, and then, he wanted to get stronger. Soon, the genome found he had isolated himself from everyone he'd known, really. In some ways, that suited him fine. He could protect everyone equally if he wasn't attached to anyone. But at the same time... he was a little lonely.

When he'd first encountered the strange scaled native, Argent had been surprised. The kid was polite enough, so he thought little of it. Now, he was regretting that. He should have tried chasing the kid off. Now, the scaled child was talking to him as he was trying to run through his paces, asking questions about natives. He paused his training to think about this. It had been a while, he'd met a strange girl once named Robyn, but he didn't really know her. Then he thought about the tiger he'd met.

"...I have met other natives. Not exactly like you of course." He hefted his training staff over one shoulder and turned to face Kanja. "I haven't seen them in a while, but..." He sighed. He'd actually been avoiding Eden. The feline had tried to visit him when he was injured, but he'd pushed the boy away. "I suppose we could try and find him."

Argent lead the way back to the ship, and after depositing his weapon in the training room, he wandered down the familiar halls to where he knew Eden's room to be. Would he be in? Argent knocked on the feline's door.

He was actually surprised Eden remembered him, but maybe he was just acting. "Yeah. Me." His eye focused on the native and the unfriendly greeting. "I don't need anything." He reached behind him and grabbed Kanja by the arm and dragged him to the front of himself. "This kid wanted to meet other natives. You're the only native..." He trailed off. Really, Eden was the only one he knew well enough. "This is Eden. Eden, this is ... uh..." he didn't remember the kid's name.

Eden's eyes narrowed as Argent spoke. He looked at Kanja raising an eyebrow. "So you ditch training me, speaking to me in general, and all of a sudden want me to babysit?" Honestly, he had nothing against this new native, he just wanted an explanation from Argent. He crossed his arms, still not acknowledging Kanja.

"Oh, what's that behind you? Is that a cage?" Kanja was peering past Eden into the room. The conversation between the older native and genome wasn't concerning to him, so he was trying to be polite and not listen in too much, but he was also curious about the other native. "Do you have a pet? Does fur ever get itchy? Or really hot? I find my scales get itchy when they dry out."

Argent sighed. Kanja was fascinated by Eden's bird, so he felt it ok to ignore the lad for now. "Aren took me back out to the blackbird." He wondered how much Eden heard about the Genome Flagship. "While we were there, a beast... well..." he gestured to his face and his missing eye. He had been angry for a a while after that. He couldn't do anything to the beast. He had felt... weak. He didn't want to see anyone, then wanted to be stronger and threw himself into his training.

"I didn't want to. It was dumb, I know. But... I didn't want you to pity me." Was that it? Maybe that was close. "But, I've gotten used to this now. So if you think I'm going to go easy on you in training, you're sorely mistaken." He was o course willing to train with Eden.

"Why would I pity you when you have cool battle scars?" The native seemed to vibrate with energy. "I wish I had cool battle scars!" Eden slightly preened him self, imagining himself adorned with a different scar each with their own story.

"Kanja! If you spar with me, we can do something you wanna do too." He nodded.