- Selene and Karna (C)
Selene: "... Hello... Professor."
Karna: "Ah, Selene. Hardly working or working hard?"
Selene: "... *sigh* Both. People ere' are feking terrifying when I'm not killin' em."
Karna: "Please. Elaborate. I'd like to help."
Selene: "*sigh* How should I describe it... it's like people are... judging me on thin's that I'm not good at. Like... ye know, talking to people outside the Dustbin and whatnot. I'm more afraid of people givin' me the stink-eye than actually, ye know. Dyin'."
Karna: "Hm. Curious. How does that occur?"
Selene: "Maybe unlike me sis, me da raised me to be de 'shadow'. The ones that guard me family and clan from the darkness. I watch from afar and I take care of others who I care about. Never learned to talk until Princess and us were dragged to Adrestian Empire as tribute. Then after dat, people just... came in."
Karna: "Yes, such bipolarity would be rather... traumatic."
Selene: "And I learned from me sis' example dat I can't kill whoever I like to or shite's gonna git worse since well, der's more people ere' than all of us in Brigid and Dagda combined."
Karna: "So you wish for me to teach you soft power? The art of talking and conversing without recoil?"
Selene: "If dat's wat's called, den ya, I'll bite."
Karna: "Well, given my own... history with people, I might be the worst kind of person to be learning social etiquette. Are you okay with other people getting involved in this... tutoring?"
Selene: "Anything to help. I ain't picky."
Karna: "Alright, here's the first lesson: find someone willing to teach us about social etiquette in the first place."