Legacies Reborn

Before long, Lucure stumbles across the 'finish' line, panting loudly.
"Phew...I didn't know....running that far...in all this armor...would be so hard..."

Lucure, being all tired, bumbs into Cain's gut.
"Finally got here huh?"

Cecil frowns. "Had I flown here I probably would've won, but so much for trying to be fair."

"My intention wasn't to win, it was to ensure I could keep an eye on you all..." Lux quietly comments, his Substitute vanishing as it reaches the spot where he waits. Gene lags behind everyone still, in the meantime, looking exhausted.
"Yeah, sure, flying is totally cheating, right...!" the Vibrava sarcastically remarks, dropping to the ground as soon as she catches up with everyone.

Cecil picks her up. "That's why I ran..."

"Cheating is just a dumb word for winning."

'In any case, we have arrived.' Caliber remarks.

"Lets go inside and eat."

"Yeah, I'm starving." Gene agrees, letting her brother carry her inside. Lux quietly follows along behind everyone, glancing around one last time before finally relaxing somewhat.

Cecil looks to the guards. "Tell the chef to prepare a massive feast for everyone...please."

"Ughuh..."
Easy to see that he is looking forward to this.

One of the Claydol guards raises its little arm in some sort of salute, and quickly hovers away. The rest stay put, keeping a careful watch over the castle as always. Gene cracks a grin when she sees all of them.
"Aw man, I missed these guys. They're horrible with conversation, but I like 'em." the Vibrava comments.

"Likewise. They're the best guards we can ask for to guard the palace, besides Lux, Lucure and Cain."

"Ah, don't say that. They might get jealous."

"Nah, they're fine." Gene assures Cain.
"They're constructs, and, like, I'm not even sure they feel emotions to be honest. And if they CAN, they still can't emote at all, which is... Actually kind of horrible, and... I'm... going to think about something else now," the Vibrava rambles. ._.

"Eheh...I guess you wouldn't want to know how things are done in my homeland"

The Vibrava shrugs in response to this.
"Nah, I'm curious. What's it like where you're from?" she asks, with a slight tilt of her head.

"Well the lands not great for growing stuff so everyone is a meat eater, veggies and stuff need to get imported and the higher ups get a bit stingy about buying stuff from other countries. Honestly a lot of people might be envious of the better environments the other countries have and conquest has always been an idea floating around. I think that's dumb, there's no way one single country could take over everything.
About the guards, many of them are loyal and strong people. They've tried to get me to join several times but even though I don't mind their ideals, I'm not a fan of standing around in one place all day. Some of the guards are actually just living armor filled with the soul of a prisoner, criminal, traitor, or such, forced to serve forever. We do some shady shit I won't lie."

"Sounds like...necromancy?" Lucure guesses, looking up at Cain with a slight frown.

"Yup, something like that."

"..."
A moment of stunned silence from the Vibrava.
"Damn. That's... That's intense," Gene finally responds.

"Yeah so when we get there you all got to be careful and don't be timid. We like seeing people that can stand up for themselves. "

"... R-right, well, I'm pretty good at that!" Gene confidently says, though she's still visibly rattled by what she's been told.

"Uh huh. Anyway enough about that. Let's eat stuff."

"Alright, let's just eat."

"Yep, eating sounds great. This way to the biiiiiiig dining hall. The one we use when we've got a lot of guests! Even though there are like less than ten of us....!" Gene declares, buzzing on ahead of everyone.