“Kaiko, just listen to me OK.”
She reacts with something in Nipponigo/Japoniese that I can’t make out.
I will just start telling the story. I roll my eyes. “Well, the rebellion of the griffins won’t be peaceful I know for certain. First thing they told me at training was: be merciless. While when I started training griffins I said: ‘don’t be too hard on yourself but I challenge you to show mercy since it’s harder to do and can have greater rewards’. but, I will continue on that later.”
I am interrupted by Kaiko “Nande?”
I replied with: “Because it isn’t relevant for the story yet."
She says “nyan.” Which in this case means fine and I continue:
“At that moment all my friends were scattered over all the tribes and the funny thing was that they all had, … have a high up position. And they all think the same as I do about how the elders want to attempt the rebellion. I was at the moment of choosing my specialty. Since I hated and still hate the practice of tearing, I chose: scout, minimum confrontation and fighting training. This gave me a serious eye for detail, some extra speed and learning skills and it even learned me something about keeping diaries. You find it annoying don’t you.”
Kaiko cocked her head up and nodded in agreement to what I said. I know how annoying she finds it when I don’t give her a chance to fool with me.
“Although I was best at close combat, survey, fleeing and almost all of the skills except for slashing. They found and still do find slashing to be my biggest problem. They said I did it too little, that I feared it. I didn't, I just hated doing it.” I demonstrated what slashing was on one of the pillows. I continued: “Not a pleasant sight to see? They recognized that it was the reason I didn't specialize myself in command or just as a regular soldier. Because as a scout you are always upfront, always first on the scene. I was the best at all the rest even set a record for gaining intelligence with a little help from friends. And with help, I mean they came to me at a central place and gave me the intelligence I needed. I rushed there, asked them what I needed to know and then rushed back in 30 minutes, while most of them take over three hours to get the same done.”
She reacted with “Dou?”
“They had high up places in their tribes, so they knew a lot about their tribes.”
I explained and then looked at her, she nodded.
“Because I was the pride of the tribe, I was the first to be send out to Equestria, to scout here.” Kaiko cocked her head. “I was send here at first. But, I asked to be stationed here after my first few weeks and they couldn’t say no because I was the best and famous scout.” She reacted with her “nyan.”
I continued once again: “I loved the whole experience I got while I was here. I gave reports to my general. I told friends of mine how Equestria was and that I’d rather live there. The reason being that I asked to be stationed there. They had regret, but knew that it was my own choice. Some came to visit me, we laughed, played. I helped them practice and they helped me.” I start smiling a bit. “One of them is one of the best generals and I learned how to beat him. That actually seems helpful, now I think of it.”
Kaiko interrupts yet again me “Nande?”
I reply by saying: “being dominant in griffin culture is being stronger than the rest.”
She nods like she knows how it is like.
“I might want to start the story of what I did the first months in Equestria in more detail?...”