- THE LEVIATHAN -

"V-Chaos-Two," Vargas corrected, but it had the same tone of encouragement, if slightly less exclamatory. Like a parent with a child, reading along, repeating what the child had said but... a little more correctly. "Very good." He glanced down at where it was trying to nudge up against his flank--Vargas was still sitting upright from having plucked Labradorite to its feet, so he had to twist and stare down at it; and all told Two was quite tiny against his massive frame. "-What are you doing?" he demanded at last, staring in confusion; ideas of friendly closeness and comfort, of affection, were (predictably) wholly alien to the Master. Before he could concern himself too much with this aberrant behavior, however, Labradorite abruptly crowed its own name. "Good!" Vargas boomed, appreciative of this show of intelligence, nodding to it. "You have been taught well, V-Labradorite-One." Again, a reinforcement, a repeating of the full name with deliberate purpose. Then it was chasing the other one--the moron, the one that was skittering along the ceiling like a lizard-spider and shouting-... What is a 'nidhogg?' Vargas glared up, and barked back: "V-Chaos-One! You are V-Chaos-One. Not whatever that is. Get down," he added, and then lurched upright abruptly, away from poor Two and its quest for body warmth.

He had to reach up, grunting as Chaos-One screeched and tried to scurry away from him, but Master Vargas' reach was a long one. He plucked it from the rock, having to tug to dislodge all its sticky, clawing toes, and set it neatly on the ground--unintentionally, in reach of Labradorite--only to notice that Selenite was wandering away. "Do not go too far--come back," Vargas growled, and realized at once why Orthoclase-Alpha had chosen to hunt, instead of babysit.

One on the ceiling, one wandering off, one trying to lay on him--they were a small mess of chaos.

Despite his annoyance, at this realization, at least, Vargas was briefly proud.

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@V-Chaos-Two

Chaos-Two squinted at Vargas in concentration, "Vee... Kay.. Os... Two!!"

Chirping happily, they turned around in a circle and flopped back down against Vargas, looking up at him with his doe eyes, "Wuurrrrrrm! Waaaaaarm!!"

Chaos wagged their little tiny deer tail, a pleased expression on their small face. They flopped onto his side ungracefully, bleating in protest as Vargas stood. They sent a small glare up at his sibling and made their way to the Master's tail, sniffing at it gently.

They flopped against it instead and sighed happily, pleased to be snuggled up against it, even more so when they realized it helped their hips a bit.

"Vrrrrgas..", they crooned, pawing at the tail before letting out a yawn and snuggling up against it, wrapping their teeny little arms around it and snuggling the appendage like a teddy bear. Good luck getting the little heat-leech off.

Off to sleep they went, gently bleating in their sleep.

Exit Chaos-Two.