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[sometime in the afternoon, Valor quietly makes his reappearance, having returned to BEDE in the wee hours of the morning for some real sleep and also a shower.

currently, he's sitting on the roof of a pavilion in the park, absently carving a piece of wood. maybe too absently; his grip slips for the briefest of moments, just long enough for the wood to fall out of his hand, skittering down the slope of the roof and onto the ground below before he can grab it.]

Aw, fuck. ...Hey, you, throw that back up here, will ya?

[do you, random passerby, throw that back up here?]

Edited 2022-03-12 00:26 (UTC)

[It hits Hades on the head when it falls, because that's the kind of luck he has. Thankfully his skull is very thick and it doesn't bother him too much, so he'll just scoop it up and look up to the roof when he hears Valor call.

He'll just walk up to the roof then, using Stability to walk up the wall in order to hand it over.]

Here you are.

[honestly, he didn't expect Hades to go through the trouble of actually, like, walking up the wall to hand it back in person, so there's a blink of surprise before he takes back the half-finished carving.]

You know you're so fucking tall you probably could've just fucking handed it to me from down there.

...

[There is a moment where he just kind of stands there, trying to compute.]

That is... probably an exaggeration.

I did not know you carved wood.

[bending over the carving again. if Hades looks closely, he seems to be using a knife that's made for the purpose, with a short, sharp blade and thick handle. ...the carving appears to be of a half-finished bird skull.]

What, I can't have a fucking hobby?

[That's cute...]

To express surprise at the kinds of hobbies you have is not to deny that you can have them, you know.

I simply never expected this to be the kind of hobby you engaged in.

Yeah, well, I'm fresh out of puppies to kick. Those suckers are expensive.

Not a single person has kicking puppies as a hobby.

[Even if you are evil and cruel, it just wouldn't be fun, Hades thinks.]

What do you like to carve most?

[that's weirdly wholesome of Hades, to think that an evil and cruel person wouldn't enjoy puppy-kicking, even if Valor agrees. though puppies are likelier to die just by existing around Valor, really, thanks to the whole Abyssal thing.]

[without missing a beat, Valor replies,]

Femurs.

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So you just make the wood skinnier?

[He absolutely thinks that Valor means he is carving wood into the shape of femurs.]

[well, it was a deliberately ambiguous statement... though Valor has a more important bone to pick with Hades' response]

Have you ever even fucking looked at a femur? The ends have all those fucking knobs, it's not easy to carve round shit like that.

I do not look very hard at bones, no. I am not a doctor.

[Takes a seat nearby.]

I must take your word for it.

Oh, come on. You must have at least some idea what a fucking bone looks like. From animals, if nothing else.