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Training Log 2: Still Trainin'

[Executor Chat]

i will be holding another training session in the park on the limbo layer tomorrow afternoon for anyone that would like to attend

[there's actually a lot more spaces here than I'm gonna make you see because he still isn't sure how to send messages and keeps hitting enter instead. eventually it goes through though!]

[Limbo- Training]

[He's here just as he said he would be! He even apparently walked off with one of the cafe tables to put snacks on like a good host. Feel free to practice on your own or poke Lion himself to throw down. He's already doing stretches and picking up heavy things like giant rocks and people.]

[Limbo- Bathouse]

[After training Lion is here, in a towel, glaring at the water]

... Lady Rei WOULD tell me, right?

[what is he talking about...?]

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[he grins]

I've been able to since Lady Rei made us Executors. Though in what little memories I have I apparently was also able to do this even as a teenager.

We've certainly some strength and durability that appears more than what one might consider normal, but even I can't simply lift a boulder-sized rock. You...

...Take no offense, but were this something you could do even in your youth [not gonna ask how old Lion is or thinks he is because ???] I feel as though your muscles would be quite a bit larger. Biceps the size of my head, for instance.

I agree- I am not in bad shape but... hm...

[He puts down the rocks and prods himself, eyes a little hallow]

I look... underfed. I do not know if that's something I can change now. Considering...

[Being dead and all]

I wish I had an explanation, but I remember so little of my life still I can't say if I was abnormal or not in this regard. Perhaps everyone had similar strength?

Perhaps we ought to let Phoenix feed you. Who knows if your appearance would change?

Still, that's quite extraordinary. And it doesn't hurt you to do that?

Ah... I have been curious about his cooking. I wouldn't want to insult him with my lack of taste though...

And no, not at all. I have yet to find any effort that really has pushed me, honestly.

My, a lack of taste? Truly a shame. Some find eating to be one of the finer things in--

Well, perhaps afterlife, even if there isn't terribly much point to it.

In any event, it's little wonder you get on with Kingslayer so well. [His expression pinches.] Have you seen them since...?

[his expression falls even further at the mention of Kingslayer]

No... I fear they may be avoiding me specificly. I had hoped... this gathering would attract them.

I believe they are avoiding everyone. Between that...display and whatever they have remembered, I cannot say I would blame them.

Perhaps... but if I had fought them more directly then Rei wouldn't have had to get involved and... well.

[maybe his friend wouldn't have run away]

Lion, you could beat yourself up over not being able to contain a completely unpredictable force of something quite beyond nature, or you could simply hope they gather themselves back together and come back of their own accord.

I find the latter to be easier, and saner.

You're likely right. But... hmm... I doubt 'saner' is always an option for me. I will try to take your counsel to heart, though.

The fact that the city yet stands is a testament to...something, I am not so certain to what just yet, but it isn't a pile of rubble.

[the rats had best scurry--he frowns to himself and banishes the memory, his own odd lapse.]

At any rate. A bit of training will do us all some good. A distraction, of sorts, and yet something to refocus us.

[he gives a bark of laughter at that]

Kingslayer and I are the same in that way- I find myself wanting to destroy it in search of them or to harm Esme... but once I calm down the very idea makes me feel ill. If I did not have all of you to keep me grounded I... well, I worry about them for that reason.

And yes, I hope so- that was my intention. Plus we have some new members who needed to meet others.

I would like to have her head. That thought doesn't distress me at all. Even if it does the others.

...Have you, by any chance, seen dear Mona?

Not recently- I saw her in passing when everyone was poisoned but she avoided me.

I was afraid of that. I've been willing to let her have her space, but...I'm concerned how hard she's taking this.

Perhaps it is for the best this happened now- if there are others further down that stand in our way...

[He shakes his head sadly]

Still, now that I have more of my head, I understand her feelings. Killing is a horrific act. Even if she can not truly 'die'.

I don't think it's that. Not that I think she's got it in her to kill, but...it's the fact that she seems so determined to not abandon Esme. Saying how alone she must be, despite that wretched woman rejecting that sentiment again and again. I've commended her large heart, of course, but there's something there that she can't seem to let go.

She can't stay here. But I'd hate to force her into anything.

If she really wished to not be alone she could join us as an Executor- though few of us would trust a known prisoner among our ranks.

How many of us, I wonder, were prisoners, scoundrels, murderers.

... likely more than I would like to admit, myself included.

[You didn't end up as scared and twitchy as him living a peaceful life]

There would be bad blood, but if she were to join us openly and honestly, it would be difficult, I think, to fully commit to casting stones.

True... if she would be willing to prove her pure intentions, I suppose I would be willing to accept her.

[he still seems Unsure though]

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