8th Wave

[tentacruelest]

Th' next time this Barge feels like poking around in my head, I'll be keeping to my quarters. The lot of yeh - useless dregs not fit to scrub a floor. It's bad enough I'm locked in here with you, I don't need to call any of yeh friends.

[Private to Bush]

Was dealing with me yerself so difficult that you sought to work through less offensive channels, Captain?

[Private to Arthas]

A word, my king.

[Can you feel that heavy sarcasm, Arthas?]

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[pvtparts]

Now that's no attitude to take.

[tentacruelest]

Do not tell me which attitude to take, wench!

[pvtparts]

I wasn't, sir. Merely stating it's not a very good attitude to take, sir.

More of an evaluative remark, sir.

[tentacruelest]

I am not yours to evaluate. Look after your own inmate.

[pvtparts]

Don't worry about the little lad, sir. She has my full attention whenever she'd like it and especially when she doesn't, sir.

I'm also sure Bush knows I would never intrude upon his dealings with you, sir. I believe he's doing a fine job, sir.

[tentacruelest]

Aye. And he will continue to do a fine job until the end of time. I am no closer to graduation than I was four months ago.

[pvtparts]

You've committed significantly fewer murders since four months ago, sir.

[tentacruelest]

Wait.

[pvtparts]

I can be incredibly patient, sir, but it seems to be that it will be well-past my natural lifespan before you do something like that again.

[tentacruelest]

What makes yeh so sure of that, Perks?

[pvtparts]

As I said, sir, Captain Bush is doing well with you.

[tentacruelest]

I think that remains to be seen.

[pvtparts]

You're not very good at navigating conversation, sir.

[tentacruelest]

[Sudden anger!]

Yeh'd be surprised what little conversation is afforded to yeh at the bottom of the sea! I am a creature of precision - I am not here to make idle chitchat with people I can hardly stand to be about!

[pvtparts]

[Pretty sure you can get a prescription of a chill pill from the infirmary for that, Jones.]

Well then, sir, it seems as though this would be a great time to learn how to do just that. It can be a handy skill to have, sir.

[tentacruelest]

[Pretty sure you can stuff that attitude, little miss upstart boots]

Call me Captain or nothing. And I find nothing you sell worth buying.

[pvtparts]

Aye aye, Captain.

Fortunate I'm not attempting to sell anything then, isn't it, Captain? I'm a soldier, not a salesman, Captain.

[tentacruelest]

You sell your words and your personality and your supposed friendship and I'll have none of your charlatan ways.

[pvtparts]

You misunderstand, Captain. You don't sell friendship. You offer it.

[tentacruelest]

It is not worth the price even then.

[pvtparts]

A little strange to view something free as taxing, Captain.

[tentacruelest]

It takes its price nevertheless.

[pvtparts]

And what exactly is that, Captain?

[tentacruelest]

In betrayals, in loss of life, in wealth and thievery, in peace of mind and soul. In a thousand different middling ways.

[pvtparts]

Don't they say it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all?