Demyx offered a friendly but clearly perfunctory greeting without even breaking his stride, as though there weren't a thing in the world he expected he could be stopped for; the guard mumbled a response more for the sake of being polite than anything else, hardly looking up as they passed. It was the very picture of casual neglect; ignorance was bliss. What the man didn't know wouldn't hurt him.
He didn't even bother waiting until they were out of earshot to begin speaking again, or to lower his voice. A little calculated brazenness, after all, was important to avoid attention of the wrong sort for being too meek. "We should probably be able to see it sometime later today, I'll bet. More incentive to get things out of the way fast, right?" Demyx laughed; better to work smarter, not harder. Then Kousyxe could have his fun, and he wouldn't have to stand over him in the heat watching him practice, when chances were he could do a lot of it himself.
Once they were a little farther out, though, he picked up their previous subject. "We're only out here to learn the basics today, so you technically don't need to start paying attention to that sort of thing just yet. But I think I like you, so I'll let you in on a little secret that most of the older guys don't always seem to remember, alright?" He let go of Arpeggio with one hand to gesture around in a wide sweep. The harsh golden glare of the mid-morning sun, the crunch of sand underfoot, the breeze blowing through the endless expanse of dunes stretching around them, the bright blue sky.....
"You don't have to care about any of this, okay? It doesn't need to matter to you. Love or hate it as much as you want, it doesn't make any difference. What's important is that you realize it's there, and understand what it means. That way, you know what to do about it, even if that's nothing at all. That's just as important in the Castle as it is out on missions--probably even more so, because you can't just run away from things getting dangerous when you RTC; you've got to actually live with these people. Even if you disregard 95% of what you see, you've got to get good at reading people and situations, for your own safety."
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He didn't even bother waiting until they were out of earshot to begin speaking again, or to lower his voice. A little calculated brazenness, after all, was important to avoid attention of the wrong sort for being too meek. "We should probably be able to see it sometime later today, I'll bet. More incentive to get things out of the way fast, right?" Demyx laughed; better to work smarter, not harder. Then Kousyxe could have his fun, and he wouldn't have to stand over him in the heat watching him practice, when chances were he could do a lot of it himself.
Once they were a little farther out, though, he picked up their previous subject. "We're only out here to learn the basics today, so you technically don't need to start paying attention to that sort of thing just yet. But I think I like you, so I'll let you in on a little secret that most of the older guys don't always seem to remember, alright?" He let go of Arpeggio with one hand to gesture around in a wide sweep. The harsh golden glare of the mid-morning sun, the crunch of sand underfoot, the breeze blowing through the endless expanse of dunes stretching around them, the bright blue sky.....
"You don't have to care about any of this, okay? It doesn't need to matter to you. Love or hate it as much as you want, it doesn't make any difference. What's important is that you realize it's there, and understand what it means. That way, you know what to do about it, even if that's nothing at all. That's just as important in the Castle as it is out on missions--probably even more so, because you can't just run away from things getting dangerous when you RTC; you've got to actually live with these people. Even if you disregard 95% of what you see, you've got to get good at reading people and situations, for your own safety."