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[~~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.

I'm pissed off. Scowl really wanted revenge after that Wolf game, which you'd "expect from him," right? But he calmed down. He calmed down and let go. He never went after your team.

But Jace turned around and did something like that to him. And because he's supposed to be rational, it's "hard to believe." And because Jace has such a righteous viewpoint, he probably didn't even think it was much of a crime, messing with the likes of Hydra and Vulpecula like that.

I don't like that kind of crap.

. . . I'm afraid my sympathy is limited in this case. It's admirable that Scowl did not pursue revenge against us, but Delphinus isn't relevant to relations between Canis and Hydra. To point to this and say "he didn't, but he did," will only serve to frustrate you. There's no use in being angry on his behalf.

Perhaps next time someone will have the opportunity to talk Jace out of any rash actions.

. . . He's angry on his own behalf. I'm just disappointed in Jace.

But you're right, it doesn't have anything to do with Canis and Hydra. Seems like they're both just rotten to each other...

That Rainbow. . . He's had his tail between his legs in Hydra forever. What a bad time to surface. Hydra is spiteful and grudging, but not cruel like that... I know Scowl well enough to know he can't have come up with it. . .

Gone along with it, on the other hand...

Ugh, sorry. You probably don't want to hear much either way...

[getting a little slurry, drops his forearm on his forehead]

Wish Jace hadn't done something dirty. Wish Hydra hadn't clapped. Ain't like I don't understand being glad a monster is gone. Just not helpin' nothing bein' stupid and cruel like that.

Not particularly, no. [shifting so he's leaning with a shoulder against the bedframe and facing Allen a bit]