Catch-all: Claude

[ercnerd]

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[shaft]

I still don't think I've explored any on my own. [ follows him! ] You should recommend something relaxing to me.

[ercnerd]

I'll pass it off to you if I happen to come across it. I've only read the one book so far.

[shaft]

Was it to your liking? [ analyzes sieghart ] If I had to guess, I'd assume that you enjoy stories of... friendship and adventure. With happy endings.

[ercnerd]

Oh, nice guess. What made you think that?

[shaft]

The innocence in your eyes.

[ercnerd]

What does that look like?

[shaft]

Hm, a certain twinkling?

[ercnerd]

I don't know about that . . .

[shaft]

You don't think you're innocent?

[ercnerd]

I'm a six-hundred-year-old human. Can anyone be innocent for that long?

[shaft]

Is it wrong to believe in miracles?

[ercnerd]

Hm . . . I suppose it isn't.

But I wouldn't call myself a miracle worker.

[shaft]

Well, a human being 600 years old is unlikely enough.

If anyone could manage to be innocent for so long, it would be someone already an anomaly.

[ercnerd]

You have a way with words. I don't know any immortals who can claim innocence after having lived for so long, though.

[shaft]

I wouldn't know, you're the first I've ever met.

[ stares ]

[ercnerd]

Am I? Does that mean you've never met a dragon before?

[shaft]

Well... I didn't realize she was a dragon at the time.

[ercnerd]

Didn't she have horns?

[shaft]

No, she looked like a normal woman. Except then she turned into a giant dragon.

[ercnerd]

They do grow quite large.

That shouldn't make me the first immortal you've met, then.

[shaft]

Perhaps not, but you are the first one I've had a relationship with.

[ercnerd]

. . . It's true that I've yet to meet a personable dragon.

[shaft]

Have you encountered a lot of them?

[ercnerd]

I once fought the Spirit Lord of Fire and Ice in Purgatory. That was a while back. More recently, I encountered the Spirit Lord of Ice, who was something of a difficult character.

[shaft]

So you've hunted them.