and the tickler takes his stickleback

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Triton (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)/Gray (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Triton (Xenoblade Chronicles 3), Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"Tell me about your reticent friend, there."

"What, Gray? Oh, he pisses me right off, I'll tell ye."

Minoth smiled. "Unexpected. I didn't think you had a Moebius bone of 'pissed-off' in you."

"Musta been I broke it," Triton said with an equally dashing grin. "But this Gray fellow...he doesn't like to tell you what he's thinkin'. That's all very fine, for enemies, but I don't think it's very neighborly, for mates."

"Mates, indeed."

"Ye got a reason for askin'?"

"Me? Oh, no, no. Just a slip of the tongue."

And a bit of dirt on it, for later.