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?]

Comments

[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?

[tentacruelest]

They are the fools to say it. It is better to have never loved at all.

[pvtparts]

I would say if you don't mind my asking, but I'm fairly certain that you do and I'm going to anyway, but why would you say that?

[tentacruelest]

I do mind. And p'haps next time you'll have the common sense to keep your mouth shut, girl.


Because I have known both and I feel I am the worse for having loved.

[pvtparts]

I don't believe that. You're the worse for having been hurt maybe, but not for having loved.

[tentacruelest]

Being hurt and being in love are one and the same thing.

You're young. You'll learn.

[pvtparts]

Maybe. Maybe not.

As I'm sure you're aware, Captain, I can be quite stubborn.

[tentacruelest]

Stubbornness will not save you from inevitable heartbreak, unless you use your stubbornness to decide not to extend your heart out to any other. Learn from the mistakes of those who came before yeh.

[pvtparts]

That seems a little lazy, don't you think?

[tentacruelest]

It is not laziness. It is protecting yourself.

[pvtparts]

That doesn't seem like much of a life.

[tentacruelest]

Considering that I've been dead some time now, I expect not.

[pvtparts]

Well, at least you have a second chance here then.