un: tender core of the waiting spring blossom | audio.

[corvis]

Who's leading this Dragon capture session?

I want in, it's probably something I can be pretty useful for in a unique way.

Comments

[corvis]

[ a ha. ] No. Never. I hunt violent monsters and drag them back down to the Abyss where they belong before they eat too many people when they escape.

[downswing]

You enslave other creatures and drag them into abyssal dark.



( SON, YOU SOUND WORSE BY THE SECOND. )

[corvis]

[ YOU ARE A HIPPIE DRAGON HUGGER, SIR. ]

We don't enslave them. You think it's better to just let them devour humanity?

[downswing]

Within reason, all creatures scavenge.

[corvis]

Nice. Is that an acceptable answer if the ones eaten "within reason" were your friends or family?

[downswing]

We too hunt malign spirits.

[corvis]

So, what, you let them do their thing within reason and then ...? Don't hurt them?

[downswing]

The difference: among men, purposeful death is homicide. Among creatures, irrational, it is feeding.

[corvis]

So, what makes a human versus a creature?

[downswing]

The discernment to differentiate between ethics and instinct.

[corvis]

Can't even good people become aligned spirits if they've been wronged?

[downswing]

But not creatures.

Only animals are excused of moral reason.

[corvis]

I see. [ at least it's not ambiguous ]

I think you're going to come to find out with time in this place that you are going to need to redefine these terms of yours.

But, anyway. If you get over this idea of enslavement and something goes wrong, give me a ring, but it sounds like there are plenty to help on this task, after all.

[downswing]

Do not burden me with your inaction. Make choice.

[corvis]

That's what you call offering backup? A burden?

[downswing]

Do I lead you, to decide when you intercede?

[corvis]

I'm giving you space to proceed with this idea of not harming the dragon with ... sorcery, however they plan to do that. My plan is for when it tries to eat you because someone plays foul.

Would you rather I just say "screw you, Lan Wangji, I'm doing whatever the hell I want?"

[somebadnews]

I had no idea you knew so much about dragons.

[ Why are you always this way? ]

[downswing]

Ask after the dragon's moral philosophy.


( He'll wait. )

[somebadnews]

Will it make a difference if it can talk?

[downswing]

You spare it no mercy?

[somebadnews]

I'm not doing anything. You seem to have it under control.

[downswing]

Whilst you watch.

[somebadnews]

It's a little hard not to.

[downswing]

You ever watch, then erupt.

Consider consistency.