Tale as Old As Time [Finished]

[yamikuronue]

Rosanna and Siegfried take their places on the right-hand side of the table, leaving the head and the spot across from Obsidian free.

Lance actually descends the stairs reasonably close to on-time this evening; he's dressed in a button-up collared shirt with silver cufflinks, a silver paisley waistcoat, and a par of black slacks leading to nice black shoes. His hair is damp again, pulled back into a ponytail, and he favors his right leg as he comes down the steps. To Obsidian, he looks... significantly older than he had at 15, that's for sure. At twenty five, he's grown another foot to six-three, but he's still thin; it's less of an awkward, teenage, reedy thin, as he's put on more muscle, but he clearly isn't taking good care of himself. His dark brown eyes are shadowed by bags, and as previously mentioned, he moves stiffly, like he's in pain.

When he spies Obsidian, he stops dead in his tracks at the bottom of the stairs, staring openly.

[CalamityJade]

Obsidian looked...somewhat the same, really. His hair was shorter and he was stubbly rather than clean-shaven, but it was still him. He looked up at him as he stared, seeming to be waiting for something to break the silence.

"Hey...man, why does everyone here look like they're not sleeping." Wait...was he just not going to broach the subject of him being there?

[yamikuronue]

Lance's hands ball into fists.

"Did you break out?" he demands, his voice gruff, harsh.

[accalia]

Echo blinks, to have Lance leap immediately to that conclusion was unexpected and unsettling...

[CalamityJade]

"Because I'd come to the first place the police would look after breaking out of prison? I'm not stupid, Lance." Obsidian sighed a little. "I was released for good behavior. Apparently they would rather keep violent criminals in jail than let the ones that don't make a problem for them stay. Probably something about wasting space."

[yamikuronue]

Lance looks away, uncomfortable, as he shifts his weight from one leg to the other. "...fine. I'm going to eat in my room."

[accalia]

"Master Lance! it has been ten years and more, can you not spend one meal together with your uncle?"

Echo is shocked, a little hurt, and his voice betrays those feelings.

[yamikuronue]

Lance stiffens, keeping his face turned away from the table as he turns his back on the group. "No need to put him off his food."

[CalamityJade]

"After ten years in prison, it would take more than your sour face to put me off a home-cooked meal." Obsidian turns his full attention to Lance. "Or do you imagine time just stopped the instant I left?"

[yamikuronue]

Lance snarls out, "Everyone here knows what I did. Nobody would blame you."

[CalamityJade]

"Then they either don't know all that happened or are idiots." Obsidian snapped right back at him. "I know i've been gone for a while, but don't think that makes me some fucking stranger that'd kick you while you're obviously down, so sit down and eat your fucking food!"

[yamikuronue]

"Obviously--" he sputters, turning to glare at Obsidian. "I'm just trying to spare you making polite fucking chit-chat with your brother's murderer!"

[CalamityJade]

Obsidian glared back. "acutally, I was going to make rude fucking chit-chat with my nephew! Maybe you know him? Turned his entire home into a fucking masoleum and apparently has his head so far up his own ASS that he can't eat with people now and a-fucking-gain!"

[yamikuronue]

Lance's hands quiver with the force of how hard he's clenching his fists. "What the fuck are you talking about? You know what I am, what I did. The only thing I can fucking do is keep out of the way so it doesn't happen again! Is that not enough for you?!"

[CalamityJade]

"Bullshit that's the only thing you can do!" Obsidian stands, glaring daggers into Lance. "You think the only option you fucking have is hiding in some tomb you've made for yourself and waiting to die! How the FUCK does that even begin making any sort of amends, let alone what they'd say about all this self-serving pity your wallowing in!"