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Shennu went over to the others right away, determined to see what they would derive from the keg herself as I set my glass own and gasped for air.
I would drink more, but I don't want to become immediately attached to this place. And I rather felt Ludwyhn's eyes in my back like daggers... I decided to look around for a bit. I heard there was apparently a caveman here, from the Kreide. That was the cretaceous period, it was over sixty... maybe one hundred million years ago.
I found him near the river bank sitting on a rock. He was a burly man bearing a large scar he hid under pelts, head obscured by his swarthy and unkempt hair, with a giant club of stone leaning beside him. He looked up at me.
[STONE BREAK BONE] "Mm... You goddess. You fighter. You fight Ludwyhn... hm... not mind him. He is cub still."
'Cub?'
[STONE BREAK BONE] "Cub, yes. Stupid. Dumb. Loud... he respect nobody but self. He of chest pinned many... but given to self by self. He is cub."
Ah, he's referring to decorated chests, a uniform pinned with many rewards. Like some of the Heer souls that made it here to the river, like an old marshal I saw nearby sleeping under a tree, his overcoat decorated down to his belly with rewards on his uniform. I see what he means.
[STONE BREAK BONE] "Ludwyhn have far go, before cub is lion. He only wish to fight, only want to mate, only want to drink and eat. He not... mellowed out yet, like great Wargod did. Like Stone Break Bone has."
'I see you've learned how to talk. It must have taken a long time, didn't it?' I asked. He nodded. 'How did you "mellow out", exactly?'
[STONE BREAK BONE] "Ponder life. Soon you shall find answer. Cannot go all time, and never find answer. I am once like Ludwyhn too. I do many things at end of Kreide. Celebrate deeds here forever, not mean proud of all of them. In age of greater beasts... dinosaurs, it is Stone Break Bone who ended them."
'You made the dinosaurs extinct?'
[STONE BREAK BONE] "Mm. Yes. I kill every last one to prove self. In end, only realize how worthless achievement really is. Realize that because able to do something... not mean should. Nobody remember what Stone Break Bone did. Only recall in Mead River. Only talked about in Mead River. Ludwyhn not realize, valor temporary. But wisdom forever. That why Emperor lasted to today, and Stone Break Bone is long gone."
[MAJORDOMO] "Whack. This primitive dude just murdered KILLALL's philosophy like that, an in thrice less the amount of monologue too!"
