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"Shouldn't be much of a big deal then. Maybe a blood vessel was damaged, but would make the red temporary, so I have absolutely no clue. Is it that common for you not to check it out when something like that happens to a troll?"

He shook his head with a slight smile. "Well he's going to be disappointed to have less time to kick my ass, but he'll deal with it."

2015-06-20 12:14:05

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"Not really. When stuff like this happens, it can, or at least used to be, liable on grounds of a cullin'. If you're "broken" in anyway, tou're no longer seen as necessary an' boom. Goodbye you." He sighed a bit and shrugged, adjusting hus scarf. "All I know is that she's not fussed by it. Whacks everyone with that cane a hers an' can boot anyone around a courtroom with both hands behind her back an' no prior knowledge of her defendee."

"He kicks your ass more often than you kick his? Are you that easy to beat, Mr Strider?" He teased, smirking a little at him.

2015-06-20 12:18:31

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He pressed his lips together at the new information. "Well that's shitty as fuck." He concludes, it not being a very smart observation, but it's the first thing that comes out of his mouth. "But at least she can kick ass huh. That's pretty badass. Is she a lawyer or something for her to be in a court room already?."

"Hey, I'll let you know that I'm pretty fucking good at what I do, mind you." He snorted, trying his best to look offended. "He just happens to know me since I was a kid, so he knows my weak points. He trained me, he knows what I am good at and am not good at, but I win a good couple of times."

2015-06-20 12:28:27

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"Hmm." Eridan just shrugged, pulling his scarf off to rewrap it around his neck. "Yeah. Dunno what course she did but I know she got in the courtrooms insanely quick."

"So change your style a bit. It doesn't even have to be by a lot. I reckon if you took half a second longer to do some of your more "signature" moves it'll throw him off completely." He grinned, rolling his eyes. "Or you could just copy him exactly an' see how that turns out."

2015-06-20 12:31:47

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"I've tried that, he just knows. I have no idea how he does it, but he just knows when I pull some funny shit like that. And once I tried to copy him. Well. Didn't go too well after I lost sigh of where he was at. Got this one in that little experiment." He reaches for the hem of his shirt, tugging it up till his navel, to see long scars slightly above each of his hips. "Shortest strife we've ever had. But I can't change it up too much without him, he's the one I use to practice with, and that would kinda go against the purpose of learning new moves."

He starts skipping steps, already pretty tired of walking down stairs, though there were only about seven flights left.

2015-06-20 12:36:16

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"Do everythin' backwards?" He was grinning now, trying to think up of absurd movements that would be funny to explain even if they didn't end up being possible.

He glanced at the scar, eyebrows rising slightly as he studied the length. "Huh. Guess that's that outta the question. Did you get all your scars from him?"

He was getting tired of stairs, and the same drab walls all the way down. When Dave started skipping stairs he grumbled, looking over the banister much like he did earlier, except down instead of up. Seven flights wouldn't be so bad on his legs, he's jumped down higher. "Fuck this. Race you down." Eridan swung himself over and dropped, taking the force of the landing easily and feeling it right up his spine.

2015-06-20 12:49:08

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"Oh of course, how haven't I thought that." He rolls his eyes, smiling. "He's the only person i've ever sparred with, so I'm gonna go with yeah. Except for this one, this one over here was from a surgery." He points at one slightly above the hem of his jeans. "Removed my appendix." He explains.

He lets his shirt fall back into place. "I have more, but it's kinda cold to show those off right now, gonna have to pass." He snickered, zipping up his jacket once more. He raised a brow. "Eridan what th- fuck!" He hurried to look over the railing, eyes wide as he sees him jump, and nearly faints when he lands. "Dude what the fuck was that, are you alright?!" He flash stepped down the stairs, joining him in a couple of seconds to check on him, his heart still racing from the fright he gave him. "Dude.. what the fuck you should have broken your legs with that." Though he sounds a little worried he sure is relieved

2015-06-20 12:55:37

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Eridan looked up at Dave's exclamation, shaking out his legs and rolling his shoulders. He was going to have a bruise of the ball of his foot. There was a piece of stone or something when he landed and ow that's gonna be annoying for a few days.

He looked weirdly at Dave when he appeared beside him spouting shit. "What? No I shouldn't. I've jumped down higher than seven flights of stairs Dave, I'm fine." He didn't understand why the Strider seemed genuinely worried over him. "See? Not even injured." He walked up and down a bit, resisting the urge to favour his foot and just walked for his benefit. "Honestly Dave."

2015-06-21 00:07:30

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"Just. I need a moment." He covered his own eyes with his hand, sighing in relief. "For your information humans can break their legs by jumping from way lower places. I could do that if I jumped from the second floor and landed wrong. You could have warned earlier, jesus christ." He finally puts his hand down after a bit, taking a deep breath.

"C'mon, you nearly made me think I was going to drive you to the hospital and not home, let's go." He manages to say after a bit. "Before it starts raining even harder."

2015-06-21 00:11:35

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"Oh." Eridan fiddled with the hem of his shirt awkwardly, shrugging his shoulders. "Well for future reference Dave, I can jump from higher places an' land fine." He grinned a bit, letting go of his shirt and fiddling with his bag strap instead. "It's got somethin' to do with my bone structure an' stuff. Seadweller shit."

"You wouldn't've had to drive me to hospital Dave. I would'a still insisted you drive me home. I can fix myself up pretty fine." He rolled his eyes at him and followed, fins tiled back against his head.

2015-06-21 00:39:37

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"Oh you can fix two broken legs? Do tell me about that type of amazing bone home-made magic." He rolls his eyes, though he smiles slightly a second later. "That was kind of impressive, alright. But warn me next time before you do some crazy shit like that."

As soon as he's outside, he makes a run for the car, a white jeep, though the wheels had been switched, so they didn't stand out as much, so it was slightly smaller than one would expect. Unlocking it, Dave slid into the driver's seat, ruffling his hair so that it wouldn't look too weird, and started the engine.

2015-06-21 00:44:04

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"I can fix one broken leg an' three sprains in one go. I don't like hospitals." His tone was final on that and he pulled a face, tucking his nose into his scarf at a blats of cold air.

Eridan took one look at the rain and scowled. He watched Dave take a run for it and, sighing, followed. He was in the passenger seat in seconds, hands tucked into his jacket pocket and sneezing once. "C'mon hurry up. It's cold an' I want the heat on."

2015-06-21 01:39:56

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"I think you might already have caught that cold I mentioned." He didn't take longer than two seconds to turn on the heat, hoping that it would start to be effective soon. Pretty soon, he got them on the road, heading in the general direction Eridan had pointed at when talking about his apartment, expecting him to give him directions when needed.

2015-06-21 09:46:13

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"I better fuckin' not have. I don't have time for a cold, or any sort of illness." He sneezed again, tucking his face against his shoulder to cover it before reaching for the vents. He hurried to point them all at himself, warming his hands. "I hate rain. It's only good when you're inside."

Eridan shivered, glancing outside and pointing to the turn off Dave should take, giving directions when they were needed.

2015-06-21 10:06:10

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He pointed the ones on his own side to him, just getting a pleasant little warm feeling, nothing too big just yet. "Take a warm shower when you get home and take something for it before you get more symptoms, like an aspirin, it will prevent it." He says helpfully, taking the turn he needed, absent-mindedly wondering where he lived. After all he was kind of a big deal for trolls, or something like that.

2015-06-21 10:12:49

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The areas they were driving to steadily got more and more high class. Eridan held his hands against the vents, shivering still. "I plan on doin' that. I'm not sure if i have any cold an' flu stuff left at home. Maybe some first sign defence. I dunno. I'll just curl up under a million blankets an' drink hot beverages." He shrugged, looking out the window. "Up here." The area was very posh now, and Eridan directed Dave to a several storey fancy looking appartment complex.

2015-06-21 10:22:40

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He looked around the place as he started seeing fancier areas and small stores, not too surprised that Eridan would live there of all places. It wasn't that he quite gave a shit either, he just wasn't used to this type of environment. "Sounds like you'll need it. But hey, if everything else fails, you know where you can get premium coffee in the morning." A half smile formed on his face, and he pulled over, noticing that the area that the balconies took in the building made for a pretty good umbrella to whoever might be waiting outside. "Alright, I'll see you tomorrow then, if you decide to get breakfast there." He smiled at him, the car now nice and cosy.

2015-06-21 10:27:15

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"If your coffee is less than stellar tomorrow Dave I'm gonna have to demand a refund." He grinned in return, not really wanting to leave the heat and be back out into the cold. His apartment was going to be cold as well, he didn't leave any lights on, or the heater.

"I'll see you tomorrow. Have a think on that sailin' stuff, an' see when you wanna do it an' message me." He smiled, hand on the handle of the car door before sighing reluctantly and opening the door, pulling himself out and dashing through the rain to the front door. He turned to wave at Dave before stepping inside.

2015-06-21 10:42:59

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Dave laughs softly, but nods reassuringly "Whenever have I disappointed you when it comes to coffee?" He says with a smug little smirk. "I'll be a bit a busy today, so unless you stay up until the ungodly hours of the morning you'll see no message from me today, but I'll add you." Once the other gets out of the car, he watches for a little bit, mostly making sure he got in without any trouble, and waves back, smiling a little wider. He soon gets back on the road, not sticking around for too long, and makes his way back home.

2015-06-21 10:47:03

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Eridan usually tried not to stay up until ungodly hours, but the past few weeks have been making him more stressed out than usual.

And so that night(morning) found him curled up on his couch under three mink blankets with a cup of slowly cooling tea on the coffee table as he looked over his notes.

He's taken a hot shower as soon as he got in, and cranked up the heat when he got out.

He was still cold, and sneezing more often than not.

2015-06-21 11:06:02

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Dave still got into a strife with his brother when he got home, but no more questions were asked about Eridan. He briefly mentioned taking his time to learn how sail, and about how a friend of his offered to teach him, so there wouldn't be money involved, though he didn't mention the free coffee and food that he'd gladly pay for. He dismissed it pretty quickly, just telling him to be careful.

He spent the night doing what he had been thinking of, studying and summarizing things, but around four or five in the morning, he got too spaced out to keep doing it. However the coffee he had a while ago kept him from sleeping, so he turned on his computer, taking the chance to add Eridan on pesterchum, and fetched a long piece of string to start practising some knots.

2015-06-21 11:11:37

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Eridan had looked up a bunch of websites that showed how to do certain knots step by step. He'd written down the web address to give to Dave when he saw him next, but a notification from Trollian deviated his attention. He guessed that the request from another user could only be Dave, because he was the only person he,d given his handle to that day.

The website had everything from a figure eight to a monkey's fist, from hitches to ties and even then some odd ones that came in handy. He copied the URL, and opened a new chat box with one turntechGodhead.

2015-06-21 11:33:17

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He rose a brow slightly when he noticed Eridan was up still, as he accepted the request. It was a bit odd seeing his trollian handle at the side bar at first, CaligulasAquarium. He thought about messaging him, as he got started on the lariat loop. Was it too late for that? Well, if he was up it probably wouldn't be, and he spent way too much time studying, he really did need something to distract himself.

"isnt it too late for you to be up? dont you need your beauty sleep?" He wrote with a slight snicker, it appearing in red text once he sent it, rubbing his eyes slightly to get the stinging to go away.

2015-06-21 11:40:22

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"strider, beauty is a thing that comes not from sleep but from extensivve amounts of starin wwide eyed at a screen in a futile attempt at studyin for a grade that wwould mean jack shit."

"in others wwords asshole im pretty all the time wwho the fuck needs sleep."

"also here"

Eridan sent through the link, smiling a bit at his screen.

Marcus Aurelius be damned, this was bound to be more interesting than a philosophical hypocritical asshole who write jack all and was a Stoic right down to his bones.

2015-06-21 11:46:10

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TG: by the way you never did tell me your last name

TG: that kinda leaves me at a disadvantage you know

TG: kinda rude

TG: and well if you say so

TG: you keep fooling yourself with your fake promises of natural beauty

Dave smiled a bit wider, clicking on the link. He absent-mindedly thought about how he had deep eye bags underneath his eyes, so he shouldn't get much sleep, at least not in the last couple of days. He grins when he sees what the website is about, and clicks on the pesterchum window again.

TG: funny thing you send me this

TG: i was working on my knot skills

Dave sent him a picture of his knot, after he finished it

TG: lariat loop or something

TG: it looks pretty dope

2015-06-21 11:51:57