Silence and Violence

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Another seemingly peaceful day in the Claudius house. At least it was until Lena tripped and fell leaving her foot behind. 

"Yes...I was. You don't happen to know when will he be back?" His voice was raspy, and was half hissed through his teeth. With a small sigh, Arasu walked over to the synthetic leg that fell off behind the girl. He kicked it up and caught it on his knee. The rehab paid off nicely. He can move almost like he remember he could.

“I only make first grade stuff” Edo was just as puzzled at the sudden price reduction (although he did his calculation and that was probably as low as the price can go). He made his payment while Claudius was on his little notebook.

When Claudius stepped back and Edo was walking over to Lych, the girl pushed herself up only to fall right away. If not for the Excalibur’s arm that caught her, she would have fall flat on her face.

“Why?! How do you even know I use Rhino?! What would you know? Edo did you tell him?!” She turned to Edo while clinging to the Excalibur. The man shook his head.

“If I had told him about you, would I have to introduced you in this fashion? Well I might have mentioned that I know a Rhino user. They aren’t that unique” Edo shook his head, putting the box away in a compartment under Lych’s hover chair.

“Now, if you want to look around, why don’t we get going now. What do you want to see?” The engineer asked, Lych struggled a little as the warframe gently pushed her back in her seat, seemingly already tired with her small exertion.

“I…I guess the syndicate room? Or just around? The meditation room have windows that sees out side, right?” She asked and the Excalibur nodded. Edo looked over at Claudius.

One little atrophied girl who intentionally tried to stand on her own two shriveled feet? Not psychosomatic,  obviously had not been catching up on her physiotherapy. Arasu is fine, assuming they know each other the would probably urge her to do some rehab, unless evidently the stubborness she displayed most likely means she too headstrong and might even be trying to prove something. Fortitude, maybe? Wonder how she’ll fare.

The barrage of thought happened in less than a second when Claudius cracked a joint in his neck. He shrugged and mused, “let me confirm with my lieutenant”.

He snatched up his comms and twirled it in his hands. By ‘comfirming with his lieutenant’ he probably meant forward everything on the schedule over to her for the afternoon.

“Let’s see here…inspect subject L3-4…Gather intel…Spy vault espionage on Venus…nah, I can spare some time”.

"I have been he-" The girl was going to answer even though Claudius wasn't talking to her, but Edo talked over her.

"They only have been here in their warframes. It would be a very different experience for Lych. Simaris sanctuary should be interesting" He said, ignoring Lych's death glare.

"Fine...Sanctuary sound interesting enough" The girl mumbled. The Excalibur tapped her shoulder and brought up a small holo-communicator. It showed a small projection of a boy, somewhat older than Lych. His mouth was covered. He didn't talk, but a text message was typing itself on the hologram.

//Simaris is that cephalon that always zoom his hologram right in your face. Are you sure?//

Her face changed as soon as she read the message.

"What is it?" Edo asked, looking over to try and see what the boy had said. Lych put it away.

“I said I don’t care for you to hear because I don’t want you talking to me!” She hissed when Edo came between them. The man stepped aside soon enough. The Excalibur, however, starting to take a rather protective stance over the girl.

“Yeah my name is Lych. Like you said, Lich, walking corpse. I’m a tenno and that’s about as much as anyone needs to know.” Lych kept her eyes on Claudius, glaring the whole time. As she finished she glanced over to the Excalibur and pointed her thump at him.

“This is Lence. He doesn’t talk” Lence, the Excaliber warframe bowed his head slightly. Edo was looking with the box under his arm and sighed.

Perhaps it was her mentioning her own name in a way that he felt he went to far, or perhaps he finally got that she didn’t stare for trouble - it was just how she acts? How she expresses? Most likely of all the alternatives, he started the rowdy act because he saw a bit of himself in her mannerism, and thus understood exactly why she acted this way. 

…What if it was because he saw a phantom of himself, but as a Tenno? A version he might have become if he succeeded in his experiment a long long time ago?

Either way, Claudius sighed, took a half step back and his expression hardened back into neutrality; a man with the chiseled face of a statue. He gave a very light nod.

“A Tenno, huh”, he mumbled, “keep it up”.

Before any protest, or waiting to see if his response was taken the right way, he turned to Edo, gesturing dismissively with his hands, “Two thousand. Just make something decent”.

Stealthily, he fetched something out of his jacket: a small notebook, barely larger than his palm, and scribbled something into it. The way he gazed at the pages was not like the way he looked at other people. It was like looking at oneself in the mirror while a hypothetical conversation went on in his head. 

Edo couldn’t quite see what it was that he wrote, but from his point of view and trying his best not to look too openly, he could tell it wasn’t an invoice or a transaction note, or anything related to money. This was important stuff. He elected not to question.

Addressing Lych and Edo collectively now, he spoke. “You”, he called to the girl first, “if you want a your Rhino specially tuned or upgraded - of course you’re a Rhino -  let Edo know. I have something in mind”.

"I only make first grade stuff" Edo was just as puzzled at the sudden price reduction (although he did his calculation and that was probably as low as the price can go). He made his payment while Claudius was on his little notebook.

When Claudius stepped back and Edo was walking over to Lych, the girl pushed herself up only to fall right away. If not for the Excalibur's arm that caught her, she would have fall flat on her face.

"Why?! How do you even know I use Rhino?! What would you know? Edo did you tell him?!" She turned to Edo while clinging to the Excalibur. The man shook his head.

"If I had told him about you, would I have to introduced you in this fashion? Well I might have mentioned that I know a Rhino user. They aren't that unique" Edo shook his head, putting the box away in a compartment under Lych's hover chair.

"Now, if you want to look around, why don't we get going now. What do you want to see?" The engineer asked, Lych struggled a little as the warframe gently pushed her back in her seat, seemingly already tired with her small exertion.

"I...I guess the syndicate room? Or just around? The meditation room have windows that sees out side, right?" She asked and the Excalibur nodded. Edo looked over at Claudius.

Edo was ticking things off the list, and taking the box from Claudius while trying to signal to Lych with his eyes to behave.

“The kid let his kubrow has ways with the old pair. It was getting uncomfortable though. Kid is still growing, probably gaining some muscle after so long….But four thousand is too…” He was going to bargain. If he was isistent enough, he could get the price down a little. But then Claudius changed the subject.

Lych nearly growl. Edo sighed heavily.

“Yes..um… This is Lych” Edo introduced  her, while walking over to stand beside the hover chair and the Excalibur.

“She’s a tenno. Just woke up a while ago and she insisted on coming to relay…in person. As you can see, she can’t walk yet. The one in the Excalibur is Lence, he’s helping me today since Arasu is off hunting” Edo talked, sweating a little while looking back and forth between Lych and Claudius, hoping neither of them would do something stupid to piss the other off.

“No, you have been glaring at me and mentioned how you ‘don’t even care’”, he spat venom, “You think I was deaf? No, no, you definitely wanted me to hear it”, the last syllables came punctuated with a low rumble in his throat. 

Edo made an attempt, a grumpy, done-with-this attempt to separate and calm Claudius down. A thick arm came between Claudius and Lych and it would’ve been severed to a stump if he hadn’t removed it fast enough. Claudius almost looked like he was going to bite it off.

“Lych, huh?”, he rolled the name around in his cheeks, “like a lich? Is that what you’re named after?”

“My name, by the way, is Claudius”, he waved a hand in circular motion and a holographic ID/Business card flickered to life.

———————–

                      T. Claudius Engineer, Mercenary, Artillery Platform 

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He snapped his fingers to close the display and went back to the matter at hand. Though Edo already told him her name, he still insisted she return the courtesy.

"I said I don't care for you to hear because I don't want you talking to me!" She hissed when Edo came between them. The man stepped aside soon enough. The Excalibur, however, starting to take a rather protective stance over the girl.

"Yeah my name is Lych. Like you said, Lich, walking corpse. I'm a tenno and that's about as much as anyone needs to know." Lych kept her eyes on Claudius, glaring the whole time. As she finished she glanced over to the Excalibur and pointed her thump at him.

"This is Lence. He doesn't talk" Lence, the Excaliber warframe bowed his head slightly. Edo was looking with the box under his arm and sighed.

There was a warframe beside him. An pale blue Excalibur, in front of it was a hover chair with a small girl in it. She seemed about as irritated as he was. Just when Edo saw that Cluadius has been waiting, and much had been for a while, he turned to the girl.

“Now Lych, we are gonna be meeting my colleague. We don’t want to make him angry, so please, behave and be quiet” He told her in a rushed whispered. The girl, Lych wrinkled her nose.

“Why do I have to care. I won’t even be talking to him. I thought Lence was suppose to let me see around?”

“Not until I’m done. You will stay where I can see and behave, got it?” Edo hissed, and Lych hissed back.

“Fine”

Then Edo stood up and approach Claudius.

They judged each other. They judged, and he saw something familiar.

His vision darted back to Edo before the engineer could catch where his bladed gaze was pointing.

“Ah, Edo, there you are, nice of you to arrive so soon”, he rubbed his stubble and flashed a grin. Crouching down swiftly, he scooped the heavy box up with one arm, twirling it like nothing in one palm, and held it forward for Edo like a gourmet dish meant to be presented. His eyes darted back to the wheel-chaired girl for a split second.

 “Two lots of Formas, four bundles of tempered polymer, blah, blah, regular materials, and a pair of bionic arms. Did Arasu outgrow his old ones? It’s been like, what, a few month? Or did he try to adjust them and they broke?”

Edo was ticking things off the list, and taking the box from Claudius while trying to signal to Lych with his eyes to behave.

"The kid let his kubrow has ways with the old pair. It was getting uncomfortable though. Kid is still growing, probably gaining some muscle after so long....But four thousand is too..." He was going to bargain. If he was isistent enough, he could get the price down a little. But then Claudius changed the subject.

Lych nearly growl. Edo sighed heavily.

"Yes..um... This is Lych" Edo introduced  her, while walking over to stand beside the hover chair and the Excalibur.

"She's a tenno. Just woke up a while ago and she insisted on coming to relay...in person. As you can see, she can't walk yet. The one in the Excalibur is Lence, he's helping me today since Arasu is off hunting" Edo talked, sweating a little while looking back and forth between Lych and Claudius, hoping neither of them would do something stupid to piss the other off.

Contracts don’t come easily for Claudius. 

He constantly had to fight for it, and occasionally fight for it. Other times, he had to convince Caliburn that utter destruction was the way to go.

Today, though, was like a day off. His contract sat there on his desk in the form of a red mark on a calendar. Edo - Larunda, it said.

Edo was not here yet.

Claudius eyed waves after waves of children go in and out of the concourse as he measured time in finger twitches. It was the three-hundred and forthy-ninth twitch now, and the portly man was still no where in sight. 

There was a warframe beside him. An pale blue Excalibur, in front of it was a hover chair with a small girl in it. She seemed about as irritated as he was. Just when Edo saw that Cluadius has been waiting, and much had been for a while, he turned to the girl.

"Now Lych, we are gonna be meeting my colleague. We don't want to make him angry, so please, behave and be quiet" He told her in a rushed whispered. The girl, Lych wrinkled her nose.

"Why do I have to care. I won't even be talking to him. I thought Lence was suppose to let me see around?"

"Not until I'm done. You will stay where I can see and behave, got it?" Edo hissed, and Lych hissed back.

"Fine"

Then Edo stood up and approach Claudius.

spoiler for Warframe quest, Second dream