'Fuck... We just crashed, and your little assistant thought it's the best time to do a fucking lecture?'
'Not really. I don't want to see her gone completely, but she's getting on my nerves really, really fucking hard right now if I do say so myself.'
'Ugh. Fine. It's good to see Mr. Unreasonable Dominion back in business. I do have a question, though.'
'Can we hear what a person is talking about if we use the ZOOM command?'
'Ah, sorta like a medium for communication? Yeah, I had seen and used one of that plenty of times in my line of work back then when I was still in Firmament. So if we would want to monitor what someone is saying, we need to plant a sort of mechanism on them that would send what they were saying to us?'
'How unfortunate. But I guess we can't have it all, even the gods.'
'That's reassuring. Ugh... My head fucking hurts. I can't believe we live through that.'
'It really does look like that, eh? He has his very own ass-kisser.'
'Fuck! You're right! Where are they anyway?'
'Can't we just do something about this balloon? Maybe we can harvest it and fix the balloon somehow?'
'Haa... You're giving me too much credit, Dominion. I am no master of aeronautics. I barely even know how this bloody thing flies. I just know it looks funny, and it needs fire to fly.'
'Can't the damn thing just assemble itself once we recreate it?'
'Ugh... Fuck... I think I just broke another bone somewhere. I don't know what's the logic there, but flying an aircraft above enemy territory is the shittiest idea I've ever seen, and no one can convince me otherwise.'
'Absolutely! You can at least make up excuses for Firmament. But that hot air balloon performance we did earlier was whack! Shit... I'm never riding a hot air balloon ever again.'
'Haa... Look around me, huh? I don't even know what I'm looking at. Where the fuck are we anyway?'
'A very narrow one at that. Streets in Firmament are much wider than this one. But not too narrow that it gets suffocating.'
'Just enough. I see Skystead Keep above there; looks like this ravine goes up to the Keep if we just follow it.'
'Really now? How very convenient that we managed to crash in this place then.'
'You're giving me too much credit again, Dominion. I'm not as smart as you think I am.'
'Let me get this straight, Dominion. I almost died, got stuck in a bullshit eternity and a half with you, almost died AGAIN after encountering a VERY angry kapre, barely managed to live after seeing the most vicious man in the Keep. Then, our only mode of transportation to the Keep got compromised by an unknown warlord that may or may not be a spy from Throne's team. You call that lucky?'
'I'm not like most people.'
<...Really now? You're a tall blonde man with blue eyes and shining white teeth. And you still have the gall to not call yourself basic?>
'Blame Gres for that.'
'Are you done?'
'Right. So how should we get to the Keep from here?'
'If it's THE only ravine in here, how come it took you a while to realize what it was?'
'What do you mean?'
'Haa... I'm starting to understand the logic behind the hot air balloon now.'
'Well, we better start walking now. I don't know where the general and his sidekick is, but let's just hope for the best for them now. I've already injured myself enough; I can't carry two more people.'
While Dominion and I were bickering about what we would do in my mind, I suddenly heard a pained grunt on the basket.
'Looks like that luck you've been yapping about worked better than we expected, Dominion.'