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[filial_guardian]

[Today, Walter is working outside. Not that this is exactly out of the ordinary, since he does yard work around the Ferines house

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[xelhes]

[Fenimore doesn't normally pass by the barracks. But hammering aluminum siding is probably not the quietest thing ever and she wanders over when she sees that it's him.

When she gets closer, she stops and looks up at him, hands in her pockets.] You never showed this kind of enthusiasm for building back home. [Because clearly two weeks of somewhat minimal contact is enough to get an idea of what Walter's interests are.]

[filial_guardian]

[Walter glances over at the voice, stopping in his hammering to look down at Fenimore.]

I built this building, so I might as well maintain it. The Malnosso definitely won't.

[xelhes]

[Since Fenimore remains probably the sole person in Luceti to not finish reading the guide and has not seen anything get restored before, she's assuming this to be a sort of "if I don't, who will?" kind of comment.]

Do you even use it, though?

[filial_guardian]

[Uh. Well. ...That's definitely a good question, Fenimore.]

I don't. But other people do.

[People he doesn't even know or care about, but hey, he'll just ... not mention that.]

[xelhes]

Then why can't they fix it?

[Given your level of sociability, she's guessing the "doesn't even know or care about" from the fact that she's pretty sure Shirley doesn't use it.]

[filial_guardian]

Because I'll get angry if they ruin it. At least, this way, I have control over its structure.

[...It makes sense to him. He steps off of the roof and lets his teriques catch him, floating back down to ground level.]

[xelhes]

So, you really are-- [She was going to make a comment about him enjoying building stuff, but instead she'll flinch when he walks off the roof good grief. Though that doesn't last long when he catches himself with his teriques, but she does go straight into looking around quickly to see if anyone's watching. Geez, so open about your teriques, Walter.]

[filial_guardian]

[He raises a brow when Fenimore cuts herself off, touching down not too far away from her before dismissing his teriques.]

Something wrong?

[xelhes]

Are-- [She lowers her voice slightly, subconsciously hunching her shoulders in and her head down to make herself less noticeable.] Are you sure you should be using your teriques so...obviously?

[filial_guardian]

[He frowns slightly at the obvious wariness in her tone.] We don't have to worry about Orerines here.

[xelhes]

I can't imagine you've suddenly gotten social enough to know all of them.

[filial_guardian]

I need to become social to know we don't have to worry about Orerines here?

[xelhes]

It doesn't depend on you becoming social, or else it'd be entirely hopeless. [That comes out angrily. It's not that she's angry at him, but she insults people to let out irritation.] Walter, there are hundreds of Orerines here, and more keep coming every day. I can't believe that you're willing to believe that none of them are going to be ones we have to worry about!

[filial_guardian]

That's your fault for presuming they're Orerines. They aren't. [He says this simply enough, but it took him awhile to get over the fact, too.]

[xelhes]

[She sounds disbelieving:] What are you talking about?

[filial_guardian]

The people here aren't Orerines. The only Orerines here is that damn pony-tailed brat, now that Senel is gone. Do you understand that?