“If you’re going to listen to me, then I’ll tell you what we’re fighting over, kid, but I’m not going to waste my breath if you’re going to fight me about it instead. This war is at a stand still and what I need is someone that’s going to tilt the balance and actually accomplish something for a ******** change.”
Her head tilted up to watch him, chin held high and posture for all the world looking as if she were a queen in her element and not a small, furry critter scolding him. Invidia was used to being listened to and, in another time, accustomed to looking grown men in the eye without faltering. The restraints a little eternal sleep had on a Mauvian was annoying.
“So, if you want me to stick around and teach you how to focus all that pent up aggression you’re oozing out of every pore, then I need to know you’re going to at least try to swallow your pride and listen to what I have to say. I don’t talk to hear myself speak and I sure as s**t don’t care about whoever pissed you off today when there’s a horde of those b*****d youma eating souls alive. I’m too old for teenage drama.”
The jade eyes met his cool greys, unblinking as her tail twitched behind her. There was a lot on the table and she sure as hell didn’t sugar coat for anyone.
“The truth is, right now, all we can do is fight for the greater good because we’re losing. Explaining why we’re losing and to whom is a conversation we aren’t having quickly in a grimy little alley. You can feel all those little blips of energy, can’t you, beneath your boiling rage? Because they can feel you too.
This is a conversation best held elsewhere.”
Nuxaz
