Masa con Papas: Proxy's Memory

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 You get up from your spot and stretch.

Charon: Got a lot of work still left to do for today then.

Opera: Don’t push yourself too hard..

Charon: I won’t. Don’t let me either.

Opera: I mean you *really* have a habit of overdoing things, even back then.

Charon: Part of my charm.

Opera: Sometimes. Scares me though.

Opera: ‘Specially the whole nonchalant thing that comes with it sometimes.

Opera: No offense, you talk like a terminator.

Charon: No idea what that is. Is that a good thing?

Opera: Depends? It’s no big deal anyway.

Mercury: So what are you two talking about?

The rabbit steps through the doorway.

Charon: Nothing big just… been a hectic day for me.

Mercury: You look it, yeah.

Mercury: You went out and do what you needed to?

Charon: Mm… and then I met up with Esperanto.

Mercury: Did you get your apology?

Charon: Didn’t feel like it but.. I’ve taken an invite to train with them.

Mercury: Really? Were they polite about it?

Opera: God no.

Mercury: Not surprised. They’re not really abusive toward folks they pick up but…

Mercury: If they think they have to press hard to get you to learn the thing, they will.

Charon: The kid with them-

Mercury: Bern? Also don’t call her that in front of her, she’d get heated.

Charon: Mm, Bern. Is she-

Mercury: Not quite. More of an assistant than anything.

Mercury: Why?

Charon: Just checking.

Mercury: Would be good to make friends with her regardless, think she could give a lot of advice on how to get on Esp’s good side.

Charon: I’ll work on it…

Charon: Why the whole secrecy thing anyway? The disguise, the illusion magic.

Mercury: It’s their specialty I guess. Saw their true form?

Charon: Maybe. Finding out they’re a fiend explains a lot.

Mercury: Didn’t realize?

Charon: What do you mean?

Mercury: Don’t fiends like… have a radar for each other a bit?

Charon: No? Not that I know of.

Mercury: Ah…

Charon: Somehow in a single fight they triggered something in my body.

Charon: Now I’m going through some sort of metamorphosis state where I feel like I’m going to have to either pass or fail…

Mercury: Mm..

Mercury: Be honest, you think they’re gonna be too hard on you?

Charon: They push a bit harder than I’d like.

Mercury: Then I’m going to ask if I can be there to couch during your training sessions.

Mercury: I’m your first mentor after all.

Charon: Not my first technically but-

Mercury: But I was here before. Taught you two and Geezer how to play your parts back then and you went above and beyond what I could’ve imagined from a group of kids.

Charon: Yes well…

Opera: I mean..

Opera: Back then you just wanted us to know how to defend ourselves if the church managed to bust down our doors…

Opera: And we did.

Mercury: And a lot more than anyone should ever have to ask from a child frankly.

Mercury: Never wanted you three to have to play soldier but… you took down what’s effectively a god.

Mercury: Can’t take too much credit for that myself but I do wanna oversee where one of my students goes from here, you know?

Mercury: And I figure I can get them to ease up on you. Esperanto won’t go full piano instructor if someone else is there to frown at them.

Charon: Don’t you have prep to do of your own? A couple of weeks isn’t much to prepare for a heist this big.

Mercury: I’m here to do the same job as I did back then, get everyone into gear and play the role of muscle if I gotta.

Mercury: Feels so weird to see all of you so grown up though. Was 24 when we met. All this time displacement stuff though like…

Mercury: How old are you two?

Charon: 24. 14 when we met.

Opera: 26. 15 when we met.

Mercury: 28 currently. That fucks with me.

Mercury: I heard Erica’s a senior now. That’s really weird too. She’s just older than me by around triple.

Charon: Mm…

Mercury: And… is Arabis still around?

Charon: He is.

Mercury: First generation fiends also got me messed up.

Mercury: Remember him claiming to be centuries old back then. Dude was still looking hell pretty for an ancient.

Charon: We stay at our physical peak for way longer than a lot of other species. Even being only partially fiend… I’ll probably live to be 150 if I play my cards right.

Mercury: Lots of time to write books.

Charon: Plenty.

Mercury: I wanna do that some day, much as I like the life of an adventurer.

Charon: That so?

Mercury: Yeah.

Opera: We haven’t heard much about how you’ve been doing, wanna sit down and share?

Mercury: Let me grab a drink and I’ll be ready to talk.