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[knifemonopoly]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, PLAYER1. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 10.11.0.0.01 *** PLAYER1 has joined 10.11.0.0.01 <PLAYER1> If you're looking for someone you knew as Yugi before June, you've found him! It's Atem, leave a message.

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[toaflame]

...Uhh.

[Shit. Maybe he should have kept his big mouth shut. He huffs, which causes a small stream of smoke to exhale from his nostrils that Atem might notice.

Weird.]

Nah, I...I ain't seen a lion in person before. Not until I came here. Just cause I am one don't mean I'm suddenly an expert.

[He's a Manticore, but also still learning the ins-and-outs of being one. It's...taking a lot of getting used to, unsurprisingly, and is leaps and bounds away from being an insect.]

And the name's Adrian.

[Pleeeease never call him Mr. he might die]

[knifemonopoly]

Mine's Atem! It's nice to meet you. I'm sure we'll see each other around...the monster community isn't that big! And we tend to wind up thrown together during the mid-month fogs anyway...

[He does notice the smoke. Is that a usual manticore ability....?]

[toaflame]

[Good question! Only one way to find out...]

...Atem. Nanami mentioned you. She said she talked to your flowers, or somethin'.

[Makes more sense now that he sees this guy is a nymph.]

[knifemonopoly]

That's right, she did!

[He seems to brighten; even his flower-petals seem a little more vibrant, a little more interested. If Nanami's friends with this guy, then he's probably okay...]

You know Nanami?

[toaflame]

[The lion nods- as best he can in this form anyway- his tail sweeping the sidewalk with his stinger occasionally clicking against its surface.]

Yeah. Hell if I know why she's stuck 'round me this long, but I know her.

[knifemonopoly]

She's a kind person...it's easy to be friends with her, no matter who you are!

[Even if you've done terrible things...she'll try to understand, and to be there for you anyway.]

But, if you're nice to her, then you can't be that bad, Mr. Adrian.

[toaflame]

[Adrian curls his lip at that, which ends up looking sortof funny since he has a lion face. It mostly looks like he has to sneeze.]

You'd be surprised.

[Look at him he's a big scary mean lion >| he's totally bad, the worst ever etc]

She kinda just found me the moment I crawled outta that sinkhole. Didn't seem bothered by me at all, bein' a complete stranger n'shit.

[knifemonopoly]

She's hard to scare. Or, maybe it's that a lot of things that usually scare people don't scare her, because she thinks they're interesting...

...and, she seems to really like everyone she meets.

[toaflame]

Yeah...you ain't wrong.

[Nanami is someone that Adrian genuinely doesn't want this place to ruin. She doesn't deserve it...especially not compared to some of the others living here, like himself.]

I just hope nothin' happens to change that, yaknow.