Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-13488655-20161111105839/@comment-26104528-20170103074229

All Lucina did was nod along and listen. As much as she wanted to interrupt with a lecture of her own, she understood well that this was one of the worst ways to teach someone a skill. As she processed, she was getting a better and better picture of Kurai. On the one hand, she had to respect his self-control in this matter. On the other hand, of all the times for said self-control to start slipping...

Stahlfritz sauntered back into the cockpit, leading his mother to ask "Don't you have work to be doing?"

"Pomodoro technique. You work 25 minutes, take a break for 5, rinse and repeat." the cyborg replied, doing a light stretch.

"It's only been 20 minutes..."

"Meh, close enough. What'd I interrupt?" he asked, sitting down at the gunnery station and spinning its chair around to join the group.

"Osiris was just explaining to me what happened over the last hour or so. Specifically, how this Kurai kid ended up in my infirmary."

"Oh yeah! Maybe if that merc hadn't dropped in, you could've given me that answer." he turned towards Osiris, still devoid of any sort of anger, but still wanting an explanation.

"Worry not, she explained everything to me." Lucina began summarizing. "There's no doubt that Kurai had been wanting revenge against Mask for a long time and since Osiris says she wants the same sort of revenge against this Master character, she fully understood where he was coming from and felt it was his right to kill Mask. Not hers."

Fritz sighed and digested this for a few. Unlike his mother, he had personally seen Kurai's character in action. Everything started to make sense now; in Kurai's thirst for revenge, he must have let some details slip and in the process gotten himself comatose and led extra mercs to Wolfe's house.

"Just food for thought." he fully turned towards Osiris and looked her dead in the eyes. "especially for you. Where we come from, there's a fun little proverb that gets tossed around a good bit. When a Sahali forgives you is when you put your guard up-"

"-that's when they're thinking clearly." Lucina finished, with a smile. She could tell Osiris was about to call her out on something, given how she held revenge as one of her major life goals right now. "For the record, the Sahale version of forgiveness might be a little different than what the rest of the world thinks it is. We just stop feeling anger at whatever offended us."

"Doesn't mean we let 'em off the hook or pretend it never happened." Fritz added. "I don't think I was that mad when I heard what happened to Laelia, but that doesn't mean I don't want to see these-" he deployed a set of his claws. "-jammed in some Loyalist's throat for what they've been doing."