The Gardevoir flicked her eyes at priam conrad as he passed by.

Chu-e straightened up from where his nose had been buried in one of the books, the novel snapped closed and laid on his desk in quick order. He offered a winning smile to Priam; the younger man hadn't done anything to earn any ire. Vermillion hadn't been one of Chu-e's operations during Kanto but that didn't mean that the other was guaranteed to avoid a run in. It was just as likely that Priam had met a much younger, much angrier, and much more willing to maim Chu-e when he had been an edgy fucklord. If he did, that was unfortunate for Priam as Chu-e didn't remember.

"Thank you for coming on such short notice. Please, have a seat." He motioned briefly to the chair sitting in front of his desk. When Priam was more inside, the door would close behind him. Without even asking, Chu-e was pouring tea from a small, ceramic, paw-print themed pot into matching cups. "I promise this is nothing to be worried about," He started again, having noticed the other's tripping over his words. "I just wanted to touch base and offer some help."

Somewhere, dark gods had plans for Chu-e. In an alternate world, on this Day of Fools, he would stand up and dramatically sweep all the stuff off his desk. "I'm here to help you... with this" That Chu-e would say, tearing off his clothes (had they been that skimpy before?) before bending over the desk and presenting himself for priam conrad. Then the porno would start.

Thankfully for everyone involved, this did not happen here, the canon universe. Chu-e just smiled pleasantly in his non-skimpy clothing before motioning to the stacks of books.

"With Xerneas! I know quite a bit about Fairy types. Plus I... well, I like to study old fairy tales and legends for fun." At the second part, he glanced away, seeming a bit embarrassed to admit it. If Priam had a look, he would see all the books that Chu-e had laying around were old story books full of wive's tales. Much like what one would read a child before bed.

"There's usually a grain of truth in the old things. I can't help in many other ways, but I hoped maybe they could be of some use."

Nodding, Chu-e picked up the book he had been reading and flipped it back open, glancing down.

"'So sully thine hands in the steeples of life for me, child.'" Was read aloud, a bit of nonsense without the rest of the story to provide context. "Xerneas is the life bringer in these stories. Many of them mark it as a standoffish but ultimately good deity. Ending famine, reviving heroes, blessing a barren queen so she could have a child... Things like that. The theme between them is it never does this on it's own, but because it is asked or or tricked into it. Makes you wonder how much is true and how much is legend."

"Many of the legends say it heralds it's arrival with unusual and excessive growth. Some say it only appears to virgins or the pure of heart. Others say it is in an eternal war with Yveltal, it's rival, to upturn the balance of like and death..."

The book is closed again.

"I don't know how much of this is true or not. What do you think?"

priam conrad

A laugh is startled out of Chu-e when priam conrad answers.

"Oh yeah, probably. Well, I don't know. I've met some people in Rocket I can't imagine anyone has ever wanted to fuck. Maybe we could use them." Names are kept out of his mouth but a few people come to mind. He leaves it at that, reaching out to pop a piece of candy in his mouth. It clicks against his teeth before he continues.

"That might work. Who knows if it'll actually show, though. Lots of these stories are like... it only came out and fixed these problems cause people tracked it down. It might not even give a shit." The book he had been reading from was dropped on the top of the stack to his left. A book the stack on the right was picked up and opened. "Or, hell, maybe it's not even real real? Like, I'm sure some of the Legends that people worship are bullshit."