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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[surfaceshine]

Sure. More power to you.

[tentacruelest]

Did yeh have a point t'make, Winchester? Or am I to entertain yeh until yeh get bored and stave off?

[surfaceshine]

My point is that you continue to brag about not wanting anything to do with us instead of just doing it. Or not doing it, as the case may be.

You need people. Even dregs.

[tentacruelest]

That is not what this message was about!

[surfaceshine]

No? You didn't want everyone to know you're ignoring them now?

[tentacruelest]

I wished for them to understand not to take last week's episode out of context!

[surfaceshine]

Why do you care what we do?

[tentacruelest]

I care about gaining as much peace of mind as I possibly can.

[surfaceshine]

And how does this achieve that?

[tentacruelest]

It allows a breath of acknowledgment before I kill the next person who disturbs me.

[surfaceshine]

You know, call me crazy, but you really haven't done much actual killing since you got here.

Not that I'm complaining, but there it is.

[tentacruelest]

Seeing as how my beloved warden's sapped my strength in my claw arm, I'm not surprised. Did he tell yeh about the time I killed him? I expect he kept that one a secret out of embarrassment.

[surfaceshine]

What, in the port with all the lightning? He expected that. He planned for it.

So you can't snap someone's neck in one go anymore. Big deal. The really violent inmates? Find a way anyway. I'm sure you've noticed.

[tentacruelest]

I have noticed. And perhaps I'm overdue for a demonstration, if there's no one on this Barge who takes me seriously.

[surfaceshine]

Oh, there's people that take you seriously. Just not your threats.

[tentacruelest]

They do not take me seriously at all. I am a daily mockery of what I once was.

[surfaceshine]

Are you? And what were you, once, that you think I'm not serious about?

[tentacruelest]

I was a sailor and a pirate captain. Feared and loathed by all. I was a legend.

[surfaceshine]

Well if you've got any tips on sailing, I'm all ears. I just know I, for one, am pretty much required to roll my eyes at grandstanding threats.

[tentacruelest]

You do not know, and do not wish to know, of sailing. On a ship like this, there's no possible use.

And it isn't grandstanding if it's carried out. Mark those words, boy.

[surfaceshine]

You don't know a damn thing about me. While you were busy bitching about everyone writing you off, you were doing the exact same goddamn thing.

[tentacruelest]

I was not. I gave the world its fair chance, and all it chose to do was explain to me how unfair in nature it truly is!

[surfaceshine]

I don't remember doing a damn thing to you until you started killing people on this ship.

And to hear you tell it, you're a far sight happier now than you ever were then. So which is it? Can't have it both ways, sir.

[tentacruelest]

I am never and was never happy. What possible reason d'yeh have for believing in the fool idea of thinking I am happier?

[surfaceshine]

Not ever? Not even for a moment? Never?