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[deepstar]

Type: Video
Sender ID: Khalid | deepstar
To: General
Subject: Hatching Time
Warnings: None

[ Initially, only Claude's face appears on the feed, alongside is wyvern. She is resting her chin on his shoulder and that hand of his is giving her a pat pat pat. So much patting. ]

I'm sure you all remember me talking about this several moons ago, but hey! The time finally came. I was starting to get a little worried, considering I have no clue what the incubation time for wyvern eggs are here. Everything went smoothly though, I promise. They actually hatched a few days ago, but I wanted to give them some time.

[ Now the video feed shifts, away from Khalid and Azita, and onto the little baby wyverns. Special guest star Leona is also present, already holding a small lizard in his arms. Seems like it's already attached. There's another one, in Claude's arm. ]

Leona and I are going to be co-parenting these kids for a little while so -

[ Unfortunately, Claude gets cut off. With Leona shoving the man's face, ears folded back. ]

Don't say it like that.

[ Too bad Khalid is unbothered, catching Leona's hand and winking. ]

Sorry, gorgeous. I meant co-parenting the hatchlings. [ Another laugh and moving right along. He's looking at the camera once more, ignoring the grumbling from behind him. ] As you all can probably tell, one little one is spoken for. I don't know about this one, so we'll just have to wait and see.

Ironic that they'd hatch while we're having issues with wild wyverns.

Comments

[deepstar]

I mean, it's not just Hilda that becomes upset. It's her brother too. So pick your poison.

[ Anyway, again, it's just an open invitation. If Sylvain wants to know, he can know. Otherwise they can just pretend like everything outside of their little circle of knowledge doesn't exist. It's fine. Claude's good at keeping secrets. ]

See, I don't know how it worked for you, but we aimed to incapacitate. Not kill.

[philancer]

Luckily I've never had to deal with that particular poison. But I believe you. Protective older brothers are already too big a threat to my life back home.

[ He winces at that, and then again when Claude talks about his intentions back home. Which makes sense from what he knows of the man. It'd been one of the reasons Sylvain had added his voice to send a request for a meeting before Gronder. An alliance. Anything. Granted, someone had seemed pretty damn determined to keep that from happening, so it never had, but... ]

I appreciate that. I really do. I know that's not how that battle turned out in a lot of other ways, but... Gronder was never going to turn out anything but bloody. I'm honestly glad the resort plucked me out of there before I had to step foot on that field. That wasn't a battle I wanted to fight.

[deepstar]

I was going to talk a little more, but I just realized that this is a very public conversation and I'm pretty sure neither one of us want to get too into it where others could pick up on it.

Technology. What a fascinating thing.

[philancer]

[ Oh. Right. he always forgets these things can do that. he usually remembers to set things to private, but he can't remember if he'd figured out how to do that.

Oh well. He's pretty sure he didn't say anything too weird. And Claude's the only one who knows him anyway, outside of Basch, who'd learned much of this the same time as he had, back in the resort. And then had to deal with the resulting fallout. Poor guy. ]

Maybe we can meet up for tea or something sometime instead.

[deepstar]

[ They are going to have a sit down and Claude is going to go over the shellphones with Sylvain. Sure, there are some features that Claude is a little clumsy with. But over all he knows the basics.

A lot of people here don't know much about him though so... ]

Sure. I know a lot of great places around here.

[philancer]

Well, I know almost nowhere, so pick something you like and surprise me.

[deepstar]

If that's the case, I usually frequent Kaveh's place.

[philancer]

I actually do know where that is. I don’t mind meeting at Kaveh’s.

[deepstar]

See? Perfect? How about for dinner?

[philancer]

Sure. I'll find you there, then.