[Rufus's face looks tense, perhaps even a little grim, but it's somehow more relaxed than it's been in awhile. To those who know him well, he's seems to look rather happy (or at least content) - and isn't that odd, coming on the heels of
Asch's post?]It looks like things are getting intense, so perhaps this is a bad time to ask what foods are
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You are not going to Switzerland. No. No negotiation. No bribery. You are not going without one of us present. I will tape you up and leave you floating in your own hot tub.
...but I will make traditional Yule dinner.
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It's... important.
That Asch and I go.
[A pause. Does he dare add this word?]
...Alone.
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He's not "that boy", Tseng. Asch is my partner.
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A partner I've barely met. Which is a fact we will have to discuss later.
I have no idea about his fighting skills or where his loyalties are. You don't even have Dark Nation to take with you.
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You are perfectly welcome to come and speak to him any time you wish. Or at morning training.
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[Welcome to Tseng's parenting skills. Refusal with a healthy dose of guilt.]
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Are you trying to guilt me into staying here? Is that it? What if I stayed here and that General you're talking about decides to send Death City the way of Nibelheim because you get attacked? Either way, I'm warm and, either way, I'm under attack.
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[Take that. And stop gritting your teeth, you'll give yourself an overbite.] I'll compromise if you take two bodyguards.
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If the last year hasn't given him an overbite already, Rufus is pretty sure he's safe from terrible dental hijinks.]
I don't know if Shibusen will let me, Tseng.
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Fine. Fine. But if you come back with a scratch on you I am going to string that boy up by his intestines and use his flesh to make a snowman. Understood?
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I'll come back in one piece, Tseng. We're going to have dinner together on Sunday night, and you still have to get to know Asch.
That's important enough to me to keep me alive. I won't leave you three here like that.
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I'm going to inspect you before you leave and catalog the state you come back in. I'm also going to cook on Yule, and on Sunday. [These are his demands. Petty as they are.]
I wouldn't let you go if I didn't think we'd trained you well, Rufus. Do not disappoint us.
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