Rilis brought Sehki up to the set of the Sky N Fly podcast room, with way too many mics set up on one table wide enough for about ten to fifteen people at max.
"Who's our next guest," Rigal asked, only for his enthusiasm to drop. "Oh, you."
Sehki looked around. He didn't know any of three women barring Kayla, sliding up next to the Aerow Heir to Rilis disdain, handing out bowls of take out food, Lacerta fries, Volans miso soup, and Serpens wings with Aquila shaped cookies.
"You brought food for us?"
"Of course. Sometimes y'all go on for hours, you didn't eat ahead of time?"
"Good, next time, make it in the kitchen, where you belong," said Mandrew, snickering with the rest of Rigal's Inner Circle, Capel and Minus.
Sehki groaned. "Too lazy to make a sandwich yourself?"
"Hey, we started, sit down!" Rilis made him wince. "Please."
The two of them took their seats, and Rilis wasn't pleased at seeing Kayla here.
"You know the other two," Sehki whispered.
"They're just your generic private fornication stars that come along to boost their status."
"Got it."
While most of them started eating, Rigal just asked Sehki why he's here.
"I dabble in Lyra Fighting as a hobby. So a question. If you weren't an heir, what would you bring to the table?"
Rigal was completely dumbfounded. "I'm supposed to be asking that question."
"Thought anyone started. So your answer?"
"Why would I need to think about that, I'm a high value fae. And I don't need some low value fae telling me what to do."
He pointed to himself and Rilis, rightfully unsure. "Who?"
"He's not talking about me. I earn my money."
"Because you're like seven or eight on the sexual market value, Amarilis."
She sucked her teeth. "Or maybe my acting skills are up to par."
"Yeah, you don't need to look hot to play a character. Anyway, I can play a prince with no tact."
"Please, without her looks, she's nothing."
"Oh so if I had to play someone ugly-"
"Or unconventionally attractive?"
"That too."
"They're not cast like most people, right? Cuz we don't go to movies for who they are."
The other three just parroted each other with generic head nods and snickering.
"So you would date someone because of how they look over who they are?"
"What guy settles for someone lower than a five? You a money mine for some girl who's using you? What's her value from one to ten?"
He smiled with a certain redhead in mind. "Immeasurable, my pelirroja is just as amazing as me!"
"And you don't have her on a leash before some guy steals and uses her?"
"Unlike some people, we're actually loyal to our partners. We know we got each other's backs and if she didn't trust me, I wouldn't be where I am now to prove it."
Lorena was watching the livestream with Ainsley in toe, lightly blushing.
"You're supposed to be calling him out, not defending me too, cute idiot."
"Rigal's gonna start kicking him off if he keeps acting like that," watching his temper rise.
"She's strong and independent without you? F that, she wants to prove she's a bad Canis, she can go get into the army and show what real strength is all about."
"You mean signing up for an endless war with no proper means to stop them in sight? Is that why some psycho is running around targeting Ursa Majors, and making them join the army?"
"Whoa, that's just a rumor." Mandrew and Minus shouted. "Herdsmen get stronger when they make Asterism Arts with Ursa Majors and Minors. Most of them are those we're recruiting to help them fight. Them women can't fight one Void out past the barriers without wanting their nails done."
"So you're saying we're too weak to fight stronger Voids, but that's the only way we're worth value? That doesn't make any sense!"
"Name one woman who's worked in the Aligned Revival Magic Yielding Squadron?"
"Luan Benjin?"
"She fought like one giant thing and is now some retired slut, anyone can do what she did."
The aforementioned soldier needed Asa and Elaine to stop her from throwing a rapier at the screen, yelling about the Constain Dorado that slaughtered hundreds of soldiers.
"She still did it, none of us here can say we've fought a Void that strong, right?"
Well I did but I had some help, nodding. "I'm all for help but if the Herdsmen users are abusing the Ursa StellArts, why should they want to fight for them."
"Well if these PFS like Benjin would stop hoaring themselves around, maybe our female soldiers would be better than just being good for a sucky suck."
Sehki shared his mentor's anger, trying to stay calm. "So you've never been afraid of a fight, is that right?"
"Of course not!"
Amarilis got up. "Then what's this," exposing the recording containing the conversation she told Sehki. Rigal tried to get her to stop but the other ladies wanted to hear it, including the slap that made almost all of them blink.
"That-that was taken out of context!"
"I have the scales of the skin where you punched me at," pulling it out, and showing the proof on the camera, giving the signal to Sehki, who snuck over to the set and plugged his phone into a cord while they argued over it.
"You recorded me?"
"I'm trying to figure out how to save you, I still love you, idiot!"
Sehki eventually uploaded the video Kennedy sent him, Rigal attacking Bejin's workers. The other panelists on the podcast reacted in shock and horror and the chat.
"Not very alpha of you, huh!"
Rigal's veins grew more visible. "Get the fuck out of my studio!"
Sehki flipped the bowl of miso into his face, watching him scream from the boiling heat.
"Miso-soup for a miso-gynist, laughing as he predicted exactly what would happen next."
The moment Rigal blew the liquid off, he blasted himself through the entire studio punching a hole in the wall. Even as Sehki ducked, Rigal grabbed him and flew them both out of the studio, blowing off his mask.
"You're alive? We threw you off the cliff!"
Busted? Kay. bring it.
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