Ghost Ship

Bird Food

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Avvoltoio as you've probably heard, and you are?"

The captain freezes for a few seconds before he walks up to where Avvoltoio is standing whilst saying "I'm William or as ARGOS keeps calling me, Captain, and this ARGOS by the way, he's the newest ARG robot after the last one... well that doesn't matter, it's nice to meet you Avvoltoio."

The captain bends down and out-stretches his arm so Avvoltoio can shake it which Avvoltoio does with their foot, almost digging into the captain's hand, but letting go before they can do any real damage to the captain. Avvoltoio makes a squawking noise at the door which causes the door to be quickly opened by two Osservas from the other side. Avvoltoio begins to walk through the door, which leads to a hallway filled with quite a number of doors before Avvoltoio motions to the captain to follow them, which he does. As they're walking through the hallway, Avvoltoio asks the captain "oh I forgot to ask but I can tell that you don't know who I am, so I just assumed you wouldn't know them, but I thought I should ask anyways, so have you met my kids because if not then I'll introduce them to you, William".

The captain tries to recall if he had met Avvoltoio's children for a moment before replying "no I don't think I have actually met your kids, I'd love to meet them Avvoltoio".

They take a few more steps before entering a lounge area with various assortments of furniture, including a large couch, bookshelves almost going around the entire room and an art easel with an unfinished painting of an Osserva in it. Avvoltoio motions to the captain to stop as Avvoltoio goes to leave the room while telling him "Make yourself at home, I'll just be a minute while I get the kids". The Captain is left to himself for a few minutes, so he decides to look around the room however he barely made it to one of the bookshelves before Avvoltoio comes back in the room with a smaller Osserva, wearing a similar outfit to Avvoltoio, who smiles at him, Avvoltoio begins to apologise saying "I'm so sorry William but I just couldn't find Merlo anywhere and Pavona doesn't know where he's run off too but oh well he should come over here soon".

Avvoltoio motions to other Osserva to take a few steps forward and shake his hand which they do and before the Osserva can speak, Avvoltoio cuts them off and braggingly says "well this is one of my darling children, Pavona". Pavona smiles and says, "it's a pleasure to meet you William" before once again Avvoltoio cuts off Pavona and continues "an absolute angel, wouldn't you agree? anyways I'm once again so sorry that Merlo isn't here but I was wondering if you would like to-". Suddenly, they all heard a loud crash and the sound of running as an Osserva, in an outfit that looks almost the exact same as Avvoltoio, runs in, stopping the moment they enter the room to catch their breath before in desperate breaths for air, yelling out "I'm sorry *puff* dad, I got *puff* caught up with... *puff* something". Avvoltoio sighs and shakes their head before looking at the captain and saying in an exasperated tone "and that's Merlo, my other kid, I'll have to apologise, he's a bit of what you guys call a scatterbrain and Merlo this is William, go say hi". The captain looks at Merlo and smiles which makes Merlo glare at him in return, causing the captain's smile to slightly fade as he looks at Avvoltoio. Avvoltoio pushes Merlo closer with their tail feathers as they mutter "c'mon just shake his hand" to Merlo which Merlo does albeit with significantly more force.

The captain jumps back slightly due to Merlo's claws digging into his skin and Avvoltoio nervously smiles before making Merlo lower their hand whilst saying "well that's Merlo for you, he's really a nice kid, deep down anyways as you can see, our city is quite nice, almost like a utopia, no?". The captain goes to speak but before he can, he's cut off by a loud "dad" coming from Merlo, Avvoltoio gives them a confused but trying to save face look which causes Merlo's gaze to become even more intense.

"Just... cut the bullshit," said Merlo somewhat quietly as their gaze became more and more intense by the second.

Avvoltoio laughs nervously before asking "what do you mean?"