The Summer Bonfire Festival (Year 20)

Nelu sighed as the familiar dark form of the pirate he'd mauled arrived at the bonfire, immediately shouting out to him for booze and implying he was ugly. Nelu stared blankly. What was the point of this? To bait him into a fight? Why approach and mock and threaten? If he wanted a fight why did he not simply initiate one? Was he trying to maintain some sort of appearance, perhaps? An attempt at playing it off as the victim or perhaps the bigger wolf if Nelu did not respond in the way he wanted?

Nelu's eyes lingered on the other boy's emaciated frame. Had he had the same illness? Ahhh perhaps this was why the pirate boy was calling him ugly. He must've been deflecting. Nelu smiled politely. "No uglier than you. As for the booze, if you looked you could see that I do not have any. Find some yourself."