Of Snakes & Ladders (Private)

"Yeah the only thing they're probably going to recommend is that I go kill someone." Ian said, "Besides I don't need a therapist, it's you that needs one. Anyone who puts poisonous insects and animals in their brothers bed needs help." He laughed.

"Hey, just because I like to wake you up in weird ways don't mean I don't love you. It's just giving you an excuse to 'die and be late', though for some reason you never want to take advantage of it. Also, it's not my fault your lock is so easy to pick."

"Just cause I can die and come back, doesn't mean that I want to die the slow painful death of being bit by something poisonous!" He sighed, "And that's going to change, I'm gonna get my locks switched!!"

"You can try all you want, but I'm enrolled in 'Advance Lockpicking', so ha!" Is she kidding, or is she serious? Then again, considering all sorts of things a Valkyrie probably has to deal with, she's not kidding. Who knows? THE SHADOW KNOWS "Besides, I could just behead you in the morning if you want?"

"Did you know that beheading someone doesn't actually kill a person instantly? It actually takes up to 5 minutes, I mean like obviously a lot of people black out, but there's been cases where people were beheaded for their crimes, and we're still awake and screaming after it was done." Ian stated. "Do you really wanna behead me now?" He asked.

"I thought you'd never ask!" She'd pull out her blade. "Ready?"

"Heey!" He yelled, grabbing the blade from blade from her, "No! You're immature!"

The blade he had grabbed was rubber. "No, I have a sense of humor that may or may not be a little dark." She'd shrug again. She was a shrugger. "Besides, I don't have the strength for a beheading yet. I'm told I've got a few weeks to go." Valkyries, aside from being Choosers of the Slain, were pretty deadly in battle as well. "It's a really good technique, though."

Ian narrowed his eyes at her, "Just a little? Still pretty immature, I'd say." He said, sitting back.

"Hey, at least I'm capable of maturing. I think I went up a cup last night." Grumbles and adjusts her bra straps. "I could be wrong, though." Closes her eye, so both are closed again. "You should take up Jousting or something."

"I already did." He said.

"Oh, so you're the one who get's knocked down, but then gets up again, and then gets knocked down again. Like that terrible song!" She'd giggle. "I should find the footage and set it to that song and post it on ValkyrieTube".

"Actually I'm pretty good at it. Haven't been knocked off once yet."

"I'm sure you have. Unless you tied yourself to the poor Mount in an effort to be undefeated. Which isn't very sporting, you know."

"Ok so I got knocked off a few times! But hey for being a beginner I'm pretty good!"

"Well that's more like it. About time that you don't think that you're 'all that', cause, I think after a year, everyone knows you're not." She'd smirk. "I don't even want to talk about what I went through in training.... It's painful."

"Well at least your training isn't, 'TO THE DEATH!' " He said, "And I've never thought 'I was all-that' I just pretend I am, cause you know fake-it-till-ya-make-it!"

"Trust me, Ian. If you were still alive, the training I've had to endure would seem like Death to you... The first couple of days I could barely get out of bed or walk. It took me a few months to be able to sleep more than 3 hours without waking up in pain." She'd grimace. "I somewhat have an idea of what you go through: I do have to lug the corpses around..."

"Lugging is different from actually being dead. The dead part is easy, cause it's like you're just asleep. The dying part is the hard part, that hurts. Though not as bad as the first time... The acid bath I got from that drakon was almost as close.... But ehh."

"Hey, don't look at me. I didn't tell the Drakon to give you an acid bath..." Not like she had any control over it or anything. "Those things are nasty. I guess they're somewhat nicer around us, though. Or maybe we just train dodging different ones?" She'd shrug again

"I never said you did." He said

"Oh I know that. Maybe you should prepare some sort of fancy trick for the next Drakon fight. Or, here's a novel idea? Try shapeshifting into something that can beat it up? You never know what you can be until you try, after all." It's true. She didn't know she could shift genders until she tried. It had been an awkward incident. Vodka had removed all of it from her mind.

"I shapeshift all the time, thanks to you pissing people off as me, I now shape shift into people they like, and that's why I now don't die, ever... Except for training..."

"You should pretend to be a Valkyrie sometime. Nobody will even try to kill you. Plus then you can probably skip training when you feel like it." Probably not the best advice she should be giving her Brother, but... Where did it say she was supposed to give GOOD advice?

"I shapeshifted into you a few times." He said.