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What for?

[His expression is bored, that itself should be a clear tell. If not, there's still those deep red eyes.]

Hyde. [ She cants her head to the side, then shrugs. ] A "quest". I was bored, so perhaps this will be interesting. It takes me away and to the borders, though. I do not know how long that will have me gone, even though there are horses.

Have you learned to ride yet? What would they have you do?

[His interest is caught anyway.]

No. I'll have one of the people sent with me do that part.

[ SHE WILL NEVER LEARN TO RIDE or no she will probably, but she has yet to bother. ]

They wish me to lead some reinforcements to the borders. Apparently the other court is being a nuisance there. I'm to see what's going on and then report back.

Interesting. So you're to oversee a battle while acting as escort. Leading the troops to the slaughter - don't go dying for the cause yourself, now.

You know I couldn't if I tried. [ chiding. ]

True. That must be among the reasons they sent you. I'm a little bit jealous. You will tell me all about it, won't you?

[He means to say he's jealous of both what she's doing and her immortality. Hyde would take both more than gladly. Not so much orders, but to be at the battlefront it would be worth it.]

If you're so terribly bored, you could always go ask them for something to keep you busy yourself. Or wait and see if they send you orders.

[ she'd been so bored, shijima hadn't bothered to say "no". and really, she might learn something worth knowing from this.

so why not. ]

I called to tell you I'm going, didn't I? Of course I'll tell you about it later. That's part of our arrangement, unless that's changed.

If they decide to assign something interesting to me of their own accord, then I will do. I won't seek it out, lest they should mistake me for someone who will obey.

Nothing has changed so far as I am concerned. It's good to see you won't choose misguided loyalty over it.

[Not that he thought she would, necessarily, but he is always suspicious of others for one reason or other.]

I've no loyalty to anyone here.

[ Not their captors, anyway. Mostly not to any of the people, for all that she has allies now. She likes a few of the people she's met, but loyalty?

That's another can of worms. And probably only one person has earned so much as an iota of it. ]

Misguided or otherwise. I'll keep to my arrangements, though, because it's a pain if I don't.

Not even to me? I'm hurt. [haha no he's not. There's only a slight pause before he makes that clear.] I respect that.

[And it does take a lot for him to give any kind of compliment, so, good job, or something.]

Arrangements are mutually beneficial, that is something else entirely. It's wise to have a few.

You don't have any loyalty, either.

[ Yay a compliment...Shijima hardly ever gives those out, herself. What a pair. ]

So you have others, I take it? Arrangements.

No, of course not, why should I offer any such thing? [He laughs. Yep, it's a match made in...well definitely not Heaven.]

I have met few here who would be worth having arrangement with in the first place. In life, I did. There will be others here, I'm sure.

Who knows? It's a human thing, anyway.

[ Loyalty. Oh, animals have it in their way, but different. Less complicated.

Human hearts are what make everything complicated, she thinks. ]

I've only made arrangements with people from this court. I don't care much for those I've spoken to from the other.

You're wise not to. They are all hypocrites. The worst sort of lowlife there is. I would never trust someone like that. Any manner of criminal is fine, but never trust a man with delusions of nobility.

I don't trust anyone without cause.

[ Also, she doesn't see the point of nobility...humans are just weirdoes!!! Well, maybe there's something to it. For certain humans. But earning Shijima's regard is a tricky process and the rules are unwritten and flexible and nigh impossible...

So. ]

I don't think they're as noble as all that, either. Some would kill for no noble cause. Some do seem to have delusions, though, and pointless rebellions with no plans at all.

All that and more. They hide behind terms such as 'chivalry', which are meaningless, when knights turn around and slaughter innocent people for no reason whatsoever. And yet they are praised for their good deeds, where another would be hunted down. You are truly the lucky one to have been something other than human from the start.

You're not quite that, either, are you?

[ At least, he's different. It's interesting, still. ]

I suppose they think they have reasons. But they're silly. The reasons.

I am no longer human, though I was in life - yes, even after the experiment, if you had wondered on that. A Heroic Spirit is just that, a spirit, held together by magic.

[He shrugs.] They think it makes them exempt from any blame. And of course others allow it to be so.

Do you have another name, too? Like Henry.

[ she's sure he has more names. these two live on having more names every time she talks to them, shijima is pretty sure. ]

Humans have odd ideas of heroism. Heroes.

You think that so strange? [He laughs through his nose.] Edward Hyde. Surely Shijima is not the only part to your name - although perhaps it would seem irrelevant to a cat.

We have strange ideas about many things. Heroism and morality is only one.

Kurookano. I suppose I have three names.

[ Four, if you count the ridiculous mythical creature name she and Kouichi share... ]

I didn't pick any of them myself, though. They're not any business of mine. As to the ideas...I suppose it's true. Humans tend to make things more complicated then they have to be. They should try just lazing away all day, instead.

[Wow look who's talking then. Don't judge his number of names.]

I suppose I chose Edward Hyde for myself. Otherwise, however, it is out of my control. Jekyll told some woman his name was Lanyon, for some reason or other. [What an idiot.]

You would have us all be cats. [Well, gotta respect that dedication to her roots.]

And what's wrong with that? Cats are admirable creatures.

[ Because cats. But she snorts. ]

Why is he making up new names?

Nothing but that we are not cats.

[He shrugs. Actually, if this is how cats are, then sign him up for it, it's better than humans.]

It isn't made up, exactly, the name of a colleague. The point was to avoid the obvious questions of 'Berserker', but fear of a true name being recognised. But hiding the true name is the point of the title. Frankly it's hardly better, as that man was used in the novel, it would be simple to see through.

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