Catch-all: Claude

[ercnerd]

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[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.

[ercnerd]

I didn't hunt them so much as they picked a fight. I didn't kill either of them.

[shaft]

Is there a reason they took issue with you?

[ HMMM ]

[ercnerd]

The Spirit Lord of Ice was just arrogant. The prison master of Purgatory, though . . . You could say that we were on opposing sides.

[shaft]

Have you been fighting for 600 years? Sounds exhausting.

[ercnerd]

I don't fight every day. If I did, I would've died from exhaustion in the first year. It's just when monsters and other troublesome entities get in my way.

[shaft]

That still seems like a very long time.

[ Sighs. ]

I've been alive only 23 years and I'm tired of it.

[ercnerd]

Oh? Are you still embroiled in a war back home?

[shaft]

Yeah, right on the losing end of it as well. It's exhausting.

[ercnerd]

War is exhausting whether you're winning or losing. It's always longer than it needs to be.