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[rollstoseduce]

Who: A metaphorical wolf, an actual wolf, a bard, a swordcat, a rat king, a poison king, a horse with wings, a horse with a bug fish name and a wyvern eta and now a second horse
Where: National Park
When: Some time during 4th wall
Summary: Sparring! Powers! Potions! Animals! Secrets revealed, oh my!
Rating: let's give it an R for naughty jokes and references in narration



So you want to fight a witcher?
>Yes
>No
>Gwent

Comments

[bestswordmaster]

I want you here, Claude says, and it makes Felix feel sort of warm and settled. When Claude had said that he was okay with talking now because it wouldn't be any easier later, Felix thought maybe it still seemed like an obligation to him, one he didn't really want to fulfill at all but felt like he should. Felix wanted to help Claude, and Claude had shown him that talking could help if one did it right, but he's aware that he's not the person anyone would willingly go to for that sort of thing, and he can't blame them.

But Claude said I want you here. So he is helping, after all. Good.

Felix frowns, resting his cheek on top of Claude's head again and thinking.

"You once told me conversation could be like battle. So it makes sense that you're reviewing what happened to identify what you need to train to improve for next time. But sometimes, factors you couldn't possibly have taken into account ahead of time affect the outcome. It doesn't make sense to put the blame on yourself for those. Right?"

[vrdantwind]

"That's true," Claude admits. "The problem is that I can't tell whether or not those kinds of factors were in play here...or if it was all factors I could've controlled, if I hadn't failed at that. It's not really easy to tell. I can't see anything I could have done differently, anything I should've changed that might have helped...but am I not seeing them because they're not there, or because I'm missing them?"