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[shirleyhopeful]

Um, excuse me, would anyone here mind a spar with me? I don't want to hurt anyone but ...I think it's been a while since I last fought someone. I'm a Crystal Eren so that means I'm not a physical fighter...

[After a couple of seconds, Shirley thought about it some more]

Actually, I want to ask, would anyone mind teaching me how to fight using your fists? I think I might need some help training...  [And you know, getting ready for the Fishlympics] 

I'll promise that I'll teach you about Crystal Erens in return! 

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[shirleyhopeful]

It seems that you're much more patient now.

[At least she hopes]

So you're more willing to think instead of charging straight forward.

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[asea]

[If he was to be the judge of that, he really wasn't. He knew he wasn't -- ah.]

There's nothing to charge at here. Monsters are unheard of.

[And by virtue of a weak "disguise," he would be a fool to attack people at random.]

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[shirleyhopeful]

[Oh Wally]

Are you getting more frustrated with the people here? To the point where you couldn't stand it? It seems like you've ...grown more tolerate.

[Was that even the word to say?]

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[asea]

[Tolerant. Tolerant enough to talk to them for more than a minute, certainly. He was of a shorter fuse than he was before dramatic events in MelFes, but all things considered, perhaps he was more tolerant in the long run. He just didn't care to say a lot.]

Before you arrived on the Legacy, I disguised myself as an Orerines to gather information . . . It's not that different.

[He had a taste of it, though. A taste of that freedom from them, freedom that could've been acquired if the Cataclysm had -- at any rate, he'd been more vocal about his hatred, and it wasn't so easy to recover from withholding his unlikable comments.]

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[shirleyhopeful]

I don't think so, I think there's a difference...

[And then there is a sigh]

You don't have to agree with me but I am glad that you are changing.

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[asea]

[He did't want to change.

This conversation was over.]

. . . it's about time we headed back. We strayed from our objective.

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[shirleyhopeful]

[If he doesn't want to talk about it, then Shirley wasn't going to force him to.]

All right, we'll head back. [Pause] Thank you for helping me how to fight, Walter. It means a lot of me that you were helping me.