"You're rather stuck on yourself, aren't you?" I drawl out from the door. "Pompous, arrogant, over bearing, stuff-shirted, half-witted twit." Those who think so highly of themselves are the most fun to put into place. I pull out a bar of chocolate, my wand in easy reach, the 22 under my jacket. He's dead easy, of that, I'm sure.
A narrowing of his eyes is the only response Lezard will deign to give to such taunting. When you grow up a skinny bespectacled kid with a name like Lezard Valeth, you get used to a lot of teasing, and you learn pretty quickly that an angry retort will only please your tormentors.
"Test me and you will find my pride is not unjustified. Ask of me a bribe, if you will. More candy, perhaps?"
"I don't want your 'candy,'" I say, twisting the word back at him. "What I want, you couldn't give, regardless if your claims are true." Though, what exactly I want has become muddled. When I arrived, it was easy. I knew exactly what I wanted. Since then, everything has become complicated, not that I'd give any of it up.
Inwardly he wonders whether this fellow is going to ask him a real question, a good one; or whether this is going to be a stupid test. Lezard always hated tests. He was always the kid who couldn't be bothered to do the homework because the homework was busywork; the kid who couldn't be forced to show the steps he used to reach a mathematical problem's solution, because he simply saw the solution in his mind and didn't have any steps to retrace.
"Ask if it suits you, and I shall answer if it suits me."
"I am here because of an unfortunate misunderstanding. You may call it a lovers' spat." Lezard sounds mostly resigned rather than sad. Resigned, and rueful.
Yeah, that long story about Harry and Fred? I think we all know that story wasn't really about Harry and Fred.
"I have defied the gods and vanquished Odin himself; I have wielded powers that would destroy even the most adept of mages; I have created a world outside of time. Yet Lenneth Valkyrie remains obdurate. I cannot command her heart, and her powers are greater still."
He sighs heavily.
"She banished me," he admits, with no little pique. "Me, Lezard Valeth, the man who transcended eternity for her!"
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"Test me and you will find my pride is not unjustified. Ask of me a bribe, if you will. More candy, perhaps?"
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"I have a question, though."
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Inwardly he wonders whether this fellow is going to ask him a real question, a good one; or whether this is going to be a stupid test. Lezard always hated tests. He was always the kid who couldn't be bothered to do the homework because the homework was busywork; the kid who couldn't be forced to show the steps he used to reach a mathematical problem's solution, because he simply saw the solution in his mind and didn't have any steps to retrace.
"Ask if it suits you, and I shall answer if it suits me."
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Or he's full of shit.
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Yeah, that long story about Harry and Fred? I think we all know that story wasn't really about Harry and Fred.
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"I have defied the gods and vanquished Odin himself; I have wielded powers that would destroy even the most adept of mages; I have created a world outside of time. Yet Lenneth Valkyrie remains obdurate. I cannot command her heart, and her powers are greater still."
He sighs heavily.
"She banished me," he admits, with no little pique. "Me, Lezard Valeth, the man who transcended eternity for her!"
Someone get this boy a Morrissey CD, stat.
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He glares at the departing Mello. "Astral Maze!" he shouts.
Bloop! Mello disappears, to reappear elsewhere on the grounds ...
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I look around, there has to be a way down. Shit. Bastard.
The tiles are slick. This is going to take a while.
I'll make him pay.
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