notabluesbro | 13th Confession [Action/voice]

[Of course, Vash wasn't the only kid Legato ran into. The ass confused the hell out of him, but moreover, he wondered if he really was going to be 'trained' by someone. Trained to fight, right? And he said he'd be skillful, too... But right now? He called him useless. Incapable. Just some stray dog.

"If you think yourself capable, that is something you must prove."

Nicholas wanders into town and takes a seat at a bench, with journal in hand. Considers using it—even if it is confusing, and even if he's not the kind to spark up conversation. Instead he simmers a little, brow furrowed, reaching down and shaping snowballs before throwing them at the nearest building ~~totally sorry if he doesn't see you coming around the corner or something~~. For some reason, he feels like he's done this before. Something about the whiteness of all this is familiar, but... ah, well. He's too busy trying to decipher what that blue haired guy told him.

He was worth something. Wasn't he? Or was what every said true...]

[Voice]

How do y'prove you're worth something...?

[After that, he decides to go back into the forest and try to talk with that Eferin guy. Things weren't as bad as last time; he even got to actually speak to him, without any running or cursing. Even if it meant sucking up to the bastard, just a little. He's in the forest, sitting on the gnarled roots of a tree, lighting and putting out the end of a thin twig. It takes all of his concentration, but it's worth it. His pants leg has a hole burned into it, but whatever burn mark was under it has been wrapped up by a ripped shirt.]

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Nah, then your seaworms are like sandworms. They're big enough to smash up whole cities, if they wanted to. But they're normally out in the middle of nowhere...

Seaworms aren't large at all, but they do a fair bit of damage. Whole cities, eh?

Yup. But they're not as dangerous as all the bandits.

Bandits, aye; there's dangerous devils in all corners of the universe, I suppose.

Everybody's gotta be dangerous, if they're plannin' on livin' for a long time.

Otherwise, you'll just get stepped on.

Or you could just be quick, lad. Smart. Sharpish. Canny. Wise. Forethinking.

...

Huh?

[My god, it all makes sense. Jack Sparrow is what makes him into the man he is today, clearly.]

No need to outfight the other man if you can out THINK him, boyo. Fact.

Out think...

Y'mean, trick 'em?

Trick, aye; outfox. Bamboozle. That's how to really get someplace in life, eh?

I dunno... Wouldn't stuff like that catch up with you, sometime?

[LISTEN TO THE 8-YEAR-OLD, JACK. Clearly he's wise beyond his years.]

Aye, well...then it pays to know how to escape the noose, lad. A valuable skill for any trickster worth his salt.

Then I'm guessin' you're really good at that. Escapin' the noose.

The best in the world, actually.

Pffft, how'd y'know somethin like that? You can't meet everyone in the world t'know...

Nah. But I've escaped most of the world's worst dungeons, jails, prisons, lockups, and gibbets, boy. And I'm still ticking along, aren't I?

Oh...

Y'ever been shot before, old man?

[Yes. Several times.] Why?

...

Just curious, s'all. Never been shot before.

[Had guns pointed at him, before, but never hit. Close calls don't really amount to actually getting hit.]

On one occasion I were hit twice, lad, but my mate dug the shot out. Just scars, now.

It hurt real bad?

[He knows the answer is yes—knows that, yeah, but things spoken are things more interesting. Something to listen to well.]

Not so bad. [Horribly, horribly bad. Like you READ ABOUT IN THE PAPERS bad.] It was when he dug the shot out what really hurt, but we'd no choice in the matter.

So y'got a 'crew', Captain Old Man?

[But of course, if you may notice, there's a pair of bright green eyes staring at Jack through the screen, followed beforehand by an annoyed grunt.]

Get outta' here, cat!

..........Loomy?!

[Getting this cat in a stranglehold, brb.]

Huh?

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