(Hey everyone. Guess who's back? To be fair, I had some technical difficulties recently.)
Pride entered the tunnels. As Mrs. Bradley was out, it was a good time to leave his vessel empty to check on Sloth and the tunnel. However, the first thing he saw underground was Envy and Greed. Greed was standing, sway slightly, with a glazed look in his eyes. Envy was snapping their fingers in front of his face. They pressed Greed's nose. Greed tipped back slightly, but didn't react beyond that.
After a few moments where that got no response Envy turned his arm into a blade and moved to slice Greed. That would be a bad plan. Father had intentionally given him fewer souls than usual so he wouldn't go running off again, but Father didn't want Greed dead, currently.
"Envy, what are you doing?" Pride asked.
Envy froze and turned to him. "Greed froze up. Don't know what's wrong with him. Is he dead?"
Pride looked again. Greed looked almost like Pride's vessel when he emptied it. It couldn't be anything like that though. Greed was very much bound to that body. There wasn't anywhere he could go.
"No. He's not dead."
"So . . . what should we do with him?"
"You will do nothing to him," Pride answered. "If he's still like this tomorrow Father can fix him."
Envy shrugged. Then they picked up Greed. Greed once again didn't respond.
What did I just say? Pride thought. "Envy, what are you doing?"
Envy grinned, apparently pleased with themselves. "Greed's not responding to anything. I'm going to make him thoroughly lost when he wakes up."
Well that wasn't really a problem as long as he was still underground.
"Hah! Told you I'd win prince!" Greed shouted, coming back into focus.
He and the prince often got into arguments, ranging from trivial to the fates of two countries. It was easiest to argue internally, so no one would hear Greed talking to himself. He won every time. This was his body now. He called the shots, and if Ling had a problem with that, he shouldn't have given his body away so willingly.
Greed's pleasure was short lived. They were in a very unfamiliar part of the tunnels.
"This isn't where we started," Greed said. "Hey prince! Did you move us? You did, didn't you?!"
"How would I move us?" Ling asked. "I was too busy arguing with you to take control."
"Well we must've gotten here somehow."
"Why don't we just go back?"
Greed was silent for another moment, looking around and moving a little further down the tunnel. "Because I don't know which way back is," he admitted.