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[it's opennn]

[. . . hydratalks went that well, did it. kkknocks lightly.]

. . .

Tim, go answer the door.

[you are greeted by a TIM

LINK :O]

[Pats] You'll forgive me if I don't ask permission to come in...

[circle circle circle |D]

[~~sneaking~~ walking to Allen's room]

[that door is also unlocked, Tim opens it :|b]

. . . Link?

Yes. You needn't pay me any attention. [shuts this door too and finding somewhere to sit]

. . . What kind of line for a visit is that?

Well, you look tired... But I don't feel like leaving.

I don't want you to leave... I'm glad you came. I'm just tired because of this morning.

You really shouldn't have been out of bed at all today.

I just wanted to know what Canis was going to do about Lightning...

Don't push yourself so hard.

I'm not...

[On the ground leaning against the bed]

No?

. . .

Guess what Scowl told me?

[Tilts his head in a listening sort of way]

After that rotten Wolf game... Jace took it so personally that in the next game he had the opportunity, he tried to take revenge under the table. Not even on the people in the game, just on their teammates.

I missed it. But there was a game with a mansion, where someone from each team was taken out and meant to somehow scare everyone else out of a mansion, or someone on their own team would die. Scowl gave Jace Hydra and Vulpecula's knocking code that would make any message automatically trustworthy, to help get them to leave. But instead of using it and playing it safe, he took the opportunity to made an illusion that made Lucky look like a compromised deadly threat against her own team and partners.

[brow crease...]

That... doesn't match the behavior I've seen from him. I didn't take him for an underhanded person.

Scowl's not a liar though. And he said he already confronted him about it and Jace didn't deny it was deliberate.

. . .

You know him better than I do, Walker. But I cannot say with honesty that I believe the perceptions of he and his team are not warped to exaggerate enmity in others... None-the-less, I will keep that in mind.

Yeah, I won't speak up for that dog of his. But Scowl... He's an idiot, and he jumps to conclusions sometimes, but he wouldn't tell me something like that just to get me on his side. And he hadn't told me, because I'm their partner. And Jace... was beyond furious in that Wolf game.

And while they were talking today, Jace sniped at Scowl that he was the one who "started" it. So... that says a lot of things but it definitely admits retaliation.

[Long sigh out]

I think this is between their teams to deal with. We can only hope they don't intend to continue in this vein.