hotel: bradley

[shaft]

is our bradley back?

Comments

[battling]

Doesn't look much like bird's.

[Crow's mecha is not here today.

... But there is a Crow figurine in the glass case??]

[shaft]

[ Claude also notices that.

And Marie and Kazunari. ]

... Looks like Crow was roped into another one of these too.

[battling]

Surprisin' amount of double ups out there, huh?

[shaft]

Seems like it. Maybe murderous intentions have favourites among us?

[battling]

I'd hate to be a favorite.

[shaft]

I'd say you are, if you're here again.

[battling]

Really rather I wasn't.

[shaft]

We didn't even get little toys made of us.

[battling]

Did you want little miniature versions of us?

[shaft]

Why not? It seems cute.

[battling]

You can really fuck with somebody if you've got a likeness of 'em.

[shaft]

... What? You mean frighten them?

[battling]

We did have a buncha your cutouts.

[ what he means is ]

Curses.

[shaft]

[ oh yeah

looks bleak ]

What kind of curses?

[battling]

Ain't a curse worker, but usually stuff to reverse your karma, stuff like that.

[shaft]

Your world seems unusually dangerous, Bradley.

[battling]

What? It's the normal amount.

[shaft]

A world where people can do literally anything with magic? I wouldn't say so.

[battling]

It's normal if it's the world ya grew up with.

[Doesn't bother him at all.]

[shaft]

I'm amazed you manage to keep it from becoming sheer chaos.

[battling]

It ain't that bad. Humans and wizards don't spend much time around each other anyway.

[shaft]

[ there are humans?? he just assumed it was so wizards ]

Why not?

[battling]

A wizard can get into your house without ever breakin' a window, you don't understand them, they don't want to be understood, they can't work together, your interests don't align, you feel threatened by the unknown. Take yer pick.

[shaft]

Makes sense, I guess. But surely there are laws in place to prevent the abuse of magic?

[battling]

There aren't laws in North. Who's gonna enforce 'em? Each other?

We barely even tolerate each other most of the time.