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"Ah, well that is because it wasn't broken to begin with!" The snake chuckled merrily. The fabulous thing about having an entirely crafted and malleable persona was that it didn't hurt much to be insulted. Then again James had lived his entire life being kicked to the curb, forgotten, insulted, and abandoned. The trick wasn't to get stronger like most people think. The real trick was just to curl inwards, channeling all that pressure makes coal into diamonds bullshit, and then just drink your feelings away.

"Oy!" The snake awkwardly caught the apple. But he had decided today's outing was about food more so than anything else, so tucking the apple away the thief merely looked appropriately ruffled at having been insulted. "Lucky for you my social calendar is rather busy these next two days anyhow." He added with a haughty sniff.

Striking a dramatic pose as if he were some battle-general with a sword, the snake deflated at Loren's commentary. Considering he was dressed in a scarf, some netting, and a blanket he'd found in the snow, perhaps it was fair to say he wasn't humble. Homeless, sure. Humble? Well. Maybe not. With a shrug, the snake fished out a cigarette that likely hadn't been rolled with straight tobacco. "Hey, y'haven't got a light, have you?" James asked hopefully, motion towards the cigarette.

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”Clearly.” Yeah, nope, nothing to see here, nothing wrong with the dark-haired man. Loren snorted at the absurdity of the claim: while there was nothing wrong with a bit of harmless fun, pathological lying wasn’t exactly the summoner’s cup of tea. Still, he couldn’t help but feel a bit envious at the other man’s easy manner.

Picking up his bag up, the Launceleyn slung it back over one shoulder. ”Well sure, as a prince I’m sure you have all sorts of fetes and balls to attend to. And lots of simpering ladies throwing themselves at you.” One good thing about Caido was its distinct lack of parties. Loren had always hated the parties back in Northaven, especially their dumb bring a member of the opposite sex rule, for what should be obvious reasons.

Eyeing the cigarette in the strange man’s hand, Loren shook his head. ”Not one small enough for you to use. And even if I did, I wouldn’t give it to you.” Smoking was a nasty habit, and not one he was particularly inclined to encourage. Nor was it attractive to him in the slightest.
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James didn't know the first word Loren said, but he was more than well acquainted with
the second. "Oh balls, aye." The snake agreed, the lascivious bounce of his eyebrows indicating just what sort he was referring to. "And gods yes. All the ladies. Big ones, small ones, ones with great snaggly teeth and bosoms out to—" Holding out his hands at a comically large girth, the snake winked with a confident nod. "So much simpering." James added at last with a triumphant grin, though had you asked him to define simpering, he absolutely would not have been able to do it.

"Oy. Judgy." The snake sniffed, popping the cigarette into the corner of his mouth anyways.

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Well the summoner should’ve predicted that response. Instead of sighing or rolling his eyes, however, Loren just raised his eyebrows at the dark-haired man. ”Is that so? Well then, what’re you doing in the middle of the woods with me then?” Presumably the other man would have some sexual quip at the ready, or, if not, another ridiculous tale to be spun. Indeed, the Launceleyn was already bracing himself for the inevitable.

Judgy was probably the least judgmental thing he’d heard about himself in a while, so he wasn’t mad. Besides, it was true. ”Just part of my charm.” As the strange man popped the cigarette into his mouth, Loren watched it, but didn’t do anything to stop it. He couldn’t save people from themselves, a lesson that he’d only recently begun internalizing.
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"Well, it can't be balls and breasts all the time, n'can it?" Actually it could, it most absolutely definitely could, and James wouldn't say no. "But like I told you, we're a humble people, really." Something about the snake's accent made words like really come out quite unintentionally pleading. "Where I come from we hold our little shindigs by the sea where all can dip their toes in." That, at least, was true.

"Oh is it? Could've fooled me, but I'll take your word for it, all magical fingers and whatnot." So saying James wraggled his fingers at the Launceleyn with a self-satisfied grin.

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For once Loren found himself in agreement with the dark-haired man. ”No it cannot.” Indeed, the Launceleyn’s life had a distinct lack of both balls and breasts at least until a certain god reentered his life. Not that he was complaining: after the mess he’d made of his last romantic relationship he wasn’t exactly looking to get into a relationship of any kind. Seeing as he’d already voiced his thought’s about the other man’s humility the summoner stayed quiet on that front. ”Just their toes?” Loren wasn’t sure exactly why that came out of his mouth. Perhaps it was simply the fact that the comment hadn’t contained anything flirtatious in it, and the void had been so unexpected that it practically begged to be filled.

There wasn’t much to say to the dark-haired man’s final comment so the Launceleyn just glanced past the other man. ”You haven’t seen any deer with glowing antlers around, have you?” Although the summoner severely doubted he’d get a straight answer, he figured it was worth a shot. Maybe the other man would do something surprising for once.
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"Or whatever they like." The snake said with a dismissive wave of his hand. "You're getting hung up on all the wrong parts of the story, mate." He chortled. "Just imagine—the Ahi coastline lit up with fire, the water glowing from beneath, music from everywhere, and the dancing—!" The thief tipped his head back at the memory, a hand to his heart as he gushed dramatically. "The dancing." He repeated in a dreamy voice.

The question caught James by surprise. "Deer with glowing antlers?" The way the thief repeated the question made it sound as if he thought Loren was positively bonkers. Who'd heard of such a thing? Giving that it didn't snow where he came from, the Luxere didn't actually migrate that far south and so no, he'd never heard of such a thing. Had he read a book or so he might have done, but of course there were more interesting things to be doing than reading. " 'fraid not, mate."

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”I don’t dance.” The words fell flatly from his lips. Oh sure, he’d been trained in all the proper steps—as a duke, he’d had to learn how to waltz with the best of them—but it wasn’t something he’d enjoyed. Granted, that might’ve had something to do with the fact that he didn’t want to touch other people for most of his life, and the fact that he wouldn’t exactly have enjoyed most of the partners he was forced to dance with. Arranged marriages and opposite sex and all that.

Apparently the stranger had not seen the luxere around, so the summoner just sighed and shuffled his pack so it rested more gently on his back. ”That’s alright. Guess I should keep looking for them then.” He decided to ignore the incredulous tone in the other man’s voice; the Launceleyn was hardly going to trust the instincts of the dark-haired man.
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"Oh well of course you don't." The snake retorted with a role of his eyes, thinking his new magical-fingered friend was a bit of a bore. "You would do though. Doesn't even have to be good dancing. Y'just move with the waves." So saying, the snake gyrated his hips, letting his arms sway as if beneath some warm ocean breeze.

"Oh aye, and what're we seeking out these glowy-fucks for?" James chimed, moving to stand next to Loren clearly intent on following him. Not that the snake thought the deer were real, but hell if they were, maybe he could light his cigarette on their antlers.

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As the other man swung his hips around like a crazy person Loren just eyed him warily. Yeah, there was no way he was going to copy those movements. ”Are these the waves that lap gently against the shore, or the ones that capsize boats and sweep sailors out to sea?” Either way, the summoner wasn’t interested. ”Seeing as I don’t know how to swim, let alone sway, I’ll pass.” No doubt the dark-haired man would have some over the top reaction to that as well.

After Loren set off it took him a few moments to realize the other man was accompanying him. Halting, he pivoted and stared at the stranger and he asked what they were doing. ”What do you mean we?” There was no we here, just Loren and a weirdo, who, while harmless enough, was not someone the Launceleyn wanted to spend too much time with.
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"Y'don't have to go out any farther than you want. 'sides it stays shallow for a good distance out before things get treacherous." Blanking at the summoner with wide mossy-green eyes, James just shook his head. "Even invalid babies can swim." Or at least, the ones back home could. Y'just chucked 'em out into the water and let nature do its thing. Sink or swim, literally.

Halting a step too slowly and thus quite close to Loren—an accident, surely—the snake waggled his eyebrows. "Well, one—" He pointed to himself. "—two—" Then to Loren. "—is a we. Y'sure you weren't knocked on your head as a child? Can't swim, don't dance, don't understand basic words, talkin' about glowy-deer and shit?"

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Well, again, seeing as Loren could not swim (the fact that he had to keep telling people that was ridiculous), he wasn’t going to go out to the ocean, even if there had been an ocean to go out to. Thankfully, there wasn’t, at least as far as he knew of, just the river in the Greatwood (which he was probably banned from) and the oasis (which was no doubt frozen over this late in Deepfrost). ”Guess I’m not an invalid baby then.” Again, his tone came out completely deadpan, though he expected the other man to make some silly quick about how the Launceleyn whined like a baby.

The stranger thought he was being cute. Time to see if the summoner could knock some wind out of his sails. ”Nope. Just tortured by my family.” Loren’s voice was completely matter-of-fact, and the blank expression on his face didn’t change. ”Why are you following me?” It certainly couldn’t be the Launceleyn’s sunny disposition.
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"You're right about that. Far too big to be a baby." The snake quipped, his tone just as energetic and light even in the face of Loren's completely lackluster responses.

"Might've included dropin ya' on your head. Who's to stay?" When it came to family trauma, oooohhh the snake and the Launceleyn might have had a thing or two in common. Not that either would likely open up to the other any time soon. Or ever.

"What'ya mean follwin' you. You're the one followin' me mate. Asking all sorts of questions about glowy deer and whatnot." The snake said, dashing before the Launceleyn and leading the charge.

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Well, if Loren hadn’t been a stick figure, had possessed a sense of humor, or been insecure about his weight, he might’ve interpreted that statement as a fat joke. As it stood, he just gave the other man a puzzled and tired look. ”If you say so.” The Launceleyn wasn’t particularly interested in playing this game. As for the conversation about his family and what they’d done to him, again, that wasn’t something he really wanted to get in to; after the stranger failed to shut up at the summoner’s comment, and indeed pressed ahead instead, he just sighed. ”They probably did.” It would explain his idiotic behavior standing here talking to a madman.

When the other man dashed ahead, Loren rolled his eyes, then turned and walked in the other direction. He definitely did not want to indulge in this latest bout of insanity any longer. Time to see how long it took the stranger to notice and realize the Launceleyn did not ask for and did not want the other man’s company.
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