CEDRIC//

I despise playing this game.

STRAUD//

What are you complaining about?

CEDRIC//

The difficulty to connect.

STRAUD//

You don't know the first thing about it.

CEDRIC//

You've been getting into old habits.

STRAUD//

The Price family has been vying for recognition.

CEDRIC//

Oh say it ain't so.

STRAUD//

Perfection in a handroll.

CEDRIC//

Everything becomes handheld.

STRAUD//

It cycles around every month or two...

CEDRIC//

Like you said, the Price family has come up in June.

STRAUD//

July.

CEDRIC//

August.

STRAUD//

Whatever. Like I said, the Prince family.

CEDRIC//

Price family.

STRAUD//

Aren't you adept.

CEDRIC//

Not very.

STRAUD//

The Price family, what do you make of them?

CEDRIC//

They've seen the media but as of yet fail to make contact.

STRAUD//

I want to avoid making the mistake I did with Mortimer Goth.

CEDRIC//

And what is that, exactly?

STRAUD//

Save the father by damning the son.

CEDRIC//

Excuse me?!

STRAUD//

I take full responsibility.

CEDRIC//

You're a coward.

STRAUD//

You're not the first to accuse me of such.

CEDRIC//

Disgusting.

STRAUD//

And yet we're still here, debating.

CEDRIC//

Try me, old man.

STRAUD//

The Price family --

CEDRIC//

Is the Goth family --

STRAUD//

With an alien in tow.

CEDRIC//

Yes, always with the alien.

STRAUD//

We recently gained a foreigner.

CEDRIC//

Yes, I'm aware.

STRAUD//

Move past it.

CEDRIC//

Easy for you to say.

STRAUD//

It is something you must come to master.

CEDRIC//

No, this is where you're ancient-minded, old man. I will never adopt your docile --

STRAUD//

But it is by my docility have I persisted a thousand years. It is by my docility will I persist another thousand years. When will you finally undersatnd that the wisdom of youth is not the youth of wisdom? You must ultimately submit to my rule if you are to trust my leadership.

CEDRIC//

If my loyalty be in doubt, also be my patience for your refusal to explain yourself.

STRAUD//

I will never know the parlance of the young. Forgive an old man of scant remaining years the impatience youth to him is due!

CEDRIC//

My apologies.

STRAUD//

Wisdom is doled out in bits and pieces, not by chokable whole, my dear friend.

CEDRIC//

Grant me an audience for my petition. Think instead of our friends at home, the homely Avaelle.

STRAUD//

AVAEL?