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[oi_theoi]

Who: arrivals
When: Day 54, late morning
Where: Shrine area
What: NEW KIDS

[at least it's a decent hour of the morning]

[All Top Comments | Superbi Squalo | Seymour Guado | Cain]

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[oblate]

[ Interesting. Seymour's brow lifts delicately. ]

Even as you say. Then we are guests?

[ This last so delicately shaded with irony as to actually mean then are we prisoners? ]

[aboyhatching]

Conquerors. [This seems to amuse him.] It appears we have been drafted.

ugh how badly i want to make an "impressed" pun but it's just not ic

[oblate]

Indeed?

[ The reply, too, is arch. He turns askew to look at the windows behind him, as if that had been Cain's actual destination. Through the tall windows the rainforest glitters, damp and vital, imperative-green. No army marching upon their stronghold. The view is not unpleasant. His attention returns to the lithe young dandy. ]

I am Maester Seymour Guado. [ For this lordling, the titles do come out, also the narrowest incline of his head. ] With whom am I to serve?

[aboyhatching]

My name is Cain.

[He has no inkling of what a Maester is, but clearly it is a matter of importance to this man. Cain's smile is only very faintly mocking.]

Lord Hargreaves, if we must insist on pomp.

[oblate]

[ This earns Cain a narrow glare and the most minutely annoyed frown, though it probably only looks like Seymour is pursing his lips. ]

I would not wish you to discomfit yourself.

[ He has no inkling of what a Hargreaves is, anyway. But all is gracious and pleasant again in a moment. ]

Well then, you are also a newcomer.

[aboyhatching]

[This mild show of insult brings him supremely bratty amusement (just like home, this), but it lurks behind his pleasant expression, politely concealed.]

Is it so obvious? [But he's not really interested in the answer, and so he doesn't wait for it.] Shall we explore?

ugh you. anyway what's our goal?

[oblate]

[ The mincing wit of this lithe boy annoys him, but he has not found anything so close to a peer elsewhere. Besides then he will have something to throw in harm's way, if need be.

And, after all, the situation must be surveyed. ]

I would be honored.

[ i.e. you would be honored. And he tarries a moment to allow Cain to lead. Because of reasons. ]

[aboyhatching]

[He can't -- won't, rather -- quite hide the amusement in his eyes. A man who wields humility like a weapon... it's interesting, this kind of thing.

He takes the lead like it was his all along; most of all, he wants to leave this alien, unnerving shrine room. There are a series of doors to their left. He heads towards these first.]