tushanshu | ii.

[with all the fighting, the chaos, and the numerous opportunities therein, chase has been busy - and thus hasn't had the opportunity to make his opinions on the whole affair known. because, clearly, they are the best opinions, and everyone needs to know them.

he's in his suite, looking no worse for wear despite his involvement in fighting off the gangs in the metal sector those days ago. his attention is half on the video and half on the slim journal he's writing in.

he starts with his eyes on the journal after making sure the feed is on.]

It has been an exciting few weeks, hasn't it. My commendations to the local militia and to the temporarily-deputized - the former for their stellar work keeping the peace, the latter for somehow managing to decimate a more numerous foe while simultaneously keeping us all from drowning.

[or so he assumes would have been the case if the turtle lost a flipper. there's a brief, unpleasant smirk that pulls at the corner of his mouth.]

And now that we've all had the chance to be suitably heroic ... what happens next? We've already been stripped of any rank and paid to someone else's standard. I can only wonder if they think we can be called up at will to defend a land that's decidedly against us.

[he flips his brush around and taps the end of it against the page, like he's thinking, before glancing up at the screen with a condescending raise of an eyebrow.]

Then again, I'm sure plenty of you find it all suitably rewarding already. In a ... moral way.

[spoken like morality is some sort of disease. his disdain is evident as he reaches to cut the feed - but he stops, suddenly, remembering something. and because what is technology, he doesn't ~~know how to~~ bother to filter the rest.]

Ah, yes ... old monk. [by which he means shifu, since he never got the name.] Now that the fun's over, I suggest we actually see which one of us is the better combatant. Fighting side-by-side is only much to go by.

[and then it's off.]

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And what do you find rewarding?

My enemies crushed and ready to either submit to my will or die by it as I see fit. [said in a tone of voice not particularly vitriolic, almost more just commentary than anything else.] And nobody in my way, telling me when or where I can exercise my authority.

Not everyone here is against us.

Not visibly, maybe.

We wouldn't have been brought here if everyone was.

One or two people is hardly bearable, even as a minority.

And as I'm sure you noticed, our presence was enough to incite a city-wide riot.

There are plenty of friendly kedan. Maybe you just haven't found them.

And I'm not saying we're unwelcome by some either. But the gangs don't constitute the entire population. There are more of them than us. If they all wanted us dead and gone, we'd probably be that by now.

While that's a fair enough point, the fact remains that the gangs are large and widespread enough to cripple part of the city out of a loathing for us. Whatever the masses' feelings on us are personally, if we happen to be the inadvertent cause of these kinds of things and they happen frequently ...

[he gives a slight, one-shoulder shrug.]

I'm sure you know what happens next.

Maybe the gangs are related to why were were summoned here.

But you're right. It's something I've considered. Though I do think some of the kedan believe we're here to save them, and no matter what they gangs might do otherwise, it's something they'll probably hold on to.

Then their delusions may very well lead them to their deaths, though if it keeps them from actively trying to destroy us then they're welcome to that.

Regardless of the truth in being saviors and just what that entails, I think we were summoned here for a purpose. That's not a delusion. The support for this seems to be divided, but I don't think the gangs hold all the power. Things have calmed for now -- it's stupid to say forever, but I think it's enough to remind kedan of that.

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We get on with our lives as best we can and if trouble comes up again, we deal with it. Let's be honest it's only a matter of time before things go wrong again.

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Almost certainly, yes - but you'd be willing to 'deal with' any trouble that comes up again? No matter how often?

[He doesn't hesitate.]

Yeah. I would.

Astounding.

[he doesn't sound particularly astounded, though.]

Uh huh...

Lemme guess, you wouldn't?

I wouldn't leap at the chance with no other thought than how to help people, no.

Sometimes you just have to though. There's no other option.

How strange. I've never found myself with no other option when it comes to a necessary situation.

Must be nice.

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[The video comes up on Shifu perched on the edge of his desk, legs crossed and paws rested on his knees.]

Your patience is thin. [And so his is smile.]

When it comes to matters of combat, yes.

[patience he has in spades, but he's been patient.]

Unless you're still recovering from your injuries - I'd hate to think I might fight you when you aren't at your best.

[The attempt to nettle him is but an attempt. Shifu weathers it with a breath to calm him.]

A week. To prepare and rest without risk of violating this curfew. [Okay, maybe he's trying to wear your patience more.] Seven dawns from now, we will meet and see whether my Kung Fu is stronger than yours.

[a week. what's a week to fifteen centuries? he bites back a spike of irritation and nods, looking perfectly calm - though there's a slight narrowing of his eyes that betrays his real emotions.]

Dusk. The city outskirts, unless you know a better place.

[He nods, noting the reaction that slides past iron hard control.]

Dusk it shall be. The outskirts are fine. If you do not require witnesses, then it shall be for their safety that we have none.

[He pauses, then reaches for the console.]

In seven days, we shall see which Kung Fu is the true Kung Fu.

[Then he ends the video.]

[ooc; started a log thread if you like!]