For a little while, it's as if nothing's changed except the setting, and Heat's okay with that. When others spoke of Nirvana, it was all peace and hugs and being friendly to strangers, but that's never been his idea of Paradise. Somewhere worth being should have the things worth having, and part of that ... is simply having meals with comrades. That those meals tended to die screaming and were best raw and fresh was simply the way it was and he didn't want it to change.
So for him, it's almost a relief. It meant the rest were around here somewhere (including Sera), and not running into them yet was coincidence. It's fine, the Junkyard had a lot of people in it and who knew how big Nirvana was.
These ideas are set aside during what passes as 'cleanup' and as Serph reverts back to what would have been a human form, and Agni ... doesn't follow immediately, watching eyelessly for a long moment in surprise so total it renders him silent. Changing back is simply to use finer tuned vision, frowning. His is identical to when he left, cloak and all.
Serph's ... doesn't have the feel of wearing another Tribe's colors, it's not something that strikes him as being a deliberate show of checked blue and white. But it's not orange. The tips of his wings, and why the hell does he have WINGS, don't look deliberately dyed. It doesn't even occur to him that Serph might have simply discarded their Tribe's colors and affiliation. Which meant there's one other option.
"Which one of 'em beat you?" There's only one reason a Leader might stop wearing their Tribe's colors. They might have let Jinanna and Lupa live, so another Tribe might be willing to let Serph live, salt in the wound of his defeat. "And don't give me any 'oh I'm loyal I can't tell you that, law's the law' shit, who was it?"
Giving a name is going to go badly for whoever got named.
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So for him, it's almost a relief. It meant the rest were around here somewhere (including Sera), and not running into them yet was coincidence. It's fine, the Junkyard had a lot of people in it and who knew how big Nirvana was.
These ideas are set aside during what passes as 'cleanup' and as Serph reverts back to what would have been a human form, and Agni ... doesn't follow immediately, watching eyelessly for a long moment in surprise so total it renders him silent. Changing back is simply to use finer tuned vision, frowning. His is identical to when he left, cloak and all.
Serph's ... doesn't have the feel of wearing another Tribe's colors, it's not something that strikes him as being a deliberate show of checked blue and white. But it's not orange. The tips of his wings, and why the hell does he have WINGS, don't look deliberately dyed. It doesn't even occur to him that Serph might have simply discarded their Tribe's colors and affiliation. Which meant there's one other option.
"Which one of 'em beat you?" There's only one reason a Leader might stop wearing their Tribe's colors. They might have let Jinanna and Lupa live, so another Tribe might be willing to let Serph live, salt in the wound of his defeat. "And don't give me any 'oh I'm loyal I can't tell you that, law's the law' shit, who was it?"
Giving a name is going to go badly for whoever got named.