(Video; UN: sing of the rage)

[glorioussong]

(Three days have passed since his arrival. Three days spent in confinement while he recovers from...something. He recalls white powder on his fingertips - Patroclus would know the name of it - but that's all. Now he is in his benefactor's wing. Vannozza Spina.

As ever, he is blunt.)

I do not care for this welcome. (It feels like a ploy to pull the wool over his eyes. Achilles has never fallen for ploys and he won't start now.) This is where I introduce myself. I am Achilles Peleides and if you are at war, show me where the men are fighting.

(He will drink wine and party after.)

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(voice)

[glorioussong]

You can't think beyond your own existence? (Achilles, Prince Ass, has come to question a god.)

You're probably right. I could be struck down for even thinking that.

(voice)

[scrapgege]

[If only you knew what this god has been through by the hands of men, Achilles, a little sass is definitely no skin off his back.]

Certain gods can be a little testy at times, but I don't, don't worry. Not about those things.

[notsansa]

[ Immediate confusion... What do they call royalty where he's from? Heck, she'd honored him more than he deserved, he should have just been 'your highness'. 'Your grace' is reserved for kings! This feels tedious, but she doesn't favor ignorance on her own part, and she can't get a reputation for being rude when she's so new. ]

Forgive me, Prince Achilles. Might I ask how they refer to royalty where you hail? 'Your Grace' is an apt title for a crowned king where I am from, and as you are also a great soldier, I was only paying my respects. Would you prefer Your Highness, then, as befits a prince where I am from?

[ She can't always just say his name, who talks like that... ]

I'm afraid that solution would only work if the knives outnumbered the lives. In this case, I fear they do not.

[downswing]

What alternative?

[funnylittleclown]

[ Fell in it... He will just be over here breathing a deep sigh to himself. ]

Indeed it would. And how could I possibly have met you in my past, which for you would be your future, if both of us were very much alive at the time? Now there's a riddle for you!

un: wei laozu

[weifinder]

Ah, Achilles Peleides? Then you're new among our numbers, and I'd say welcome, but this isn't a series of realms necessarily warm for the welcoming.

What are there is spans decades and has not been our call, but if action is what you prefer, it will find you. Be peaceful in holding at ready until then, ah? We don't lack for battles requiring strong arms and stronger hearts.

[valeas]

( She will not pretend that she hasn't the power nor the wrath to call for blood under the right circumstances. But if he is the warrior he claims, it would hardly serve the group's purpose not to welcome it. ) It also does not mean that you will. Not if we all have a vested interest in heading east.

( Not that she is entirely convinced answers will be found there. Again, skeptic. )