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[dehanded]

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DA VINCI

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OR I WILL SMASH YOUR BIRD DA VINCI

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[sirnyxalot]

[There's a chill down his spine at that gleam; the grin unsettling even as she relaxes her stare. He shifts to keep facing her, suddenly not wanting her to be at his back.

A passerby might find it odd that he's so wary of a 'child', but it's not on him if they can't see a truth in front of their eyes.]

You would have fit right in during the war, Ibaraki. I can't even say you'd have been on my side. [It's significantly more likely that she wouldn't have been.]

[dehanded]

Of course I would not. [ she snorts, an undignified, disdainful sound. ]

Oni do not fight in human wars — not during. We defile your dead with the carrion eaters when the battle is done, steal from your victors while they are drunk on the spoils of war. Human conflict is nothing but an opportunity for my kind, an unlocked vault of treasure to be plundered, an endless feast for the taking.

[sirnyxalot]

Not all wars are fought against humans, Iba. There are worse things I've stared down in the dead of night.

[He carefully rolls his shoulders, trying to ease some tension. Unsettled by her words.]