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[Dan Feng, thankfully, has not checked his team's group chat yet; he's blissfully unaware of any deaths not by his hand, so he is just ????? at his phone. Huh?]

Is this some slang you youngsters use, or?

[ You know somethings wrong when Sett doesn't even roll with an opening like that to be a dumbass. The voice on the line is definitely Sett's, but its distorted by fangs and fangs and fangs ]

... Hey. I need you to go to the graveyard. Val's... [ He trails off. ]

Val's what.

She's - [SHIT THIS IS HARD TO SAY.]

She's dead and you need to be with her when she comes back.

[SHE BETTER COME BACK.]

Be careful, there's- something out here.

[There's a long pause. And then, in a dangerously silky tone:]

Any reason why it should be me instead of you?

[ The answer gets stuck in his throat. The silence is probably damning all by itself though. ]

You have five seconds to answer me before I go find you just so I can kill you.

Go to her first!!

[There's an odd, inhuman growl under it.]

I did it... I don't- I lost it. I don't remember a lot. But- [ He remembers that. How she TASTES. ]

She aint gonna want me there.

[There's the sound of him moving around, but he stays on the line.]

Are you a moron? What do you mean she's not going to want you there? What did you do?

[Okay good he's going. There's a temptation to just hang up but... ]

What do you THINK I did with an opener like that!!

I don't see why you murdering her precludes you being there when she wakes? My cute little Jing Yuan has done the same many times. It is very romantic. [Pause.] Unless you are injured? Are you injured?

Yeah. I mean. Not enough. That's not the problem!!

Mstillkindahungry

[Dan Feng, at least, still has enough social graces at the moment to not say he's kind of jealous of Sett being able to taste Val in that way...]

Is the hunger specifically for - intelligent creatures?

[Yeah you can HEAR the stomach growl over the line. And it's almost a whine when he answers. ]

Its not... Not intelligent creatures? But she didnt bring us to anything that wasn't??

We can wait for her together and you can have some of my tail while doing so?

[There's the sound of leaves crunching.]

She would be better off seeing you here.

DON'T ENCOURAGE IT

[PETULANTLY,]

I was good enough for Aphelios! Am I not good enough for you!

[There's a pause as dots are connecting, slowly, in Sett's head.]

THAT'S what happened... Duuuuuude

Yes. He did not tell you? Now stop being difficult, come to the graveyard, and let me see you.

I can't believe you're going to get to watch me get murdered.

Fine. I ain't far.

[What do you mean this is a great bonding experience!!!!

Dan Feng's lounging on one of the graves like it's the finest daybed, but there's an air of faint anxiety around him, the way his tail is switching back and forth giving him away.]

[ He could have hung up? But he didn't. Because what if Val came back and everything was fine and she DIDN'T want to see him til he was more himself. That would make sense. Save some steps!!

But no, eventually, a hulking figure slouches out of the cover of the trees and steps into the graveyard, already tasting the air for her.

He looks... not at all like himself. More beast than anything, more canine than the cat he usually clocks as, muzzle and teeth and bare bone in spots slowly healing. Part of his hand is missing and still dripping blood, the other burned. He isn't paying attention to either.

Just watching Danny's reaction with yellow, slitted eyes.]

No sign?

[Carefully he palms his phone closed.]

No. I've been watching.

[His tail stills, though, as Dan Feng tenses abruptly, the predatory instinct in him rankling at the arrival of another one, beastly like this. It takes a lot for him to keep lounging, turning his head just enough to look at Sett.]

You look pathetic.

Thanks I feel like shit.

[ Actually he feels GREAT. But THAT makes him feel worse. He takes a few more steps into the graveyard and- ah. Dan Feng's instinct was right at least. Sett's ears pin back and he shakes his head, and sinks down onto his haunches some careful distance away from him.

The dragon smells delicious.]

[He inhales deeply, which is a mistake, because even this far, Sett smells like blood and flesh and danger and Dan Feng's pupils slit so thin they're nearly nonexistent.]

Don't come any closer or I will maul you and she'll be mad at both of us. [He sits up.] Just give me a moment. Is this a form of yours?

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