Vėja, looking at Iancu, says, "Of all the ridiculous things you have done, this is by far the most brazen. Sit down, child."
"I don't listen to babies."
Turning to Wadim, Vėja says, "How have you let this boy become this disrespectful under your guidance?"
Iancu, crouching down in front of her, says, "Eyes up here. Or what can you not talk to someone when they speak back towards you?"
"What was that?"
"Oh, is it a hard pill to swallow that I am not as easily abused as your children, who you happen to love taking multiple jabs at while we talk to each other." Turning to Veekeeris, Iancu says, "IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, SPEAK UP AND PUT IT OUT THERE! Because right now you are all the smallest people in this room."
Stiprais, slamming his fist on the table, says, "Do not mock my kindness, child. The only reason we haven't struck you down is out of respect for your father's achievements. But that wanes every moment you speak."
"A bunch of adults act like children, then get mad when they see the results of their actions."
Veekeeris says, "I don't want to hear that from the son of Avram, the man who kidnapped our children and dragged them all away to the other side of the continent."
Ivana, speaking up, says, "He didn't drag us."
In a very polite and controlled tone, Stiprais says, "Silence, honey. You have terrible judgment and really can't tell when you're being manipulated. But don't worry, I won't allow this to continue."
Dumnorix says, "You shouldn't treat your daughter like she has no brain; being so overprotective to the point of infantilization is disgusting."
Veekeeris says, "What do you know, bug? These fucking idiots barely have any thoughts in their heads. You could spit on that scaly bastard over there and he wouldn't say a word."
"I don't like it," Gheorghe whispers.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Veekeeris shouts, but as Gheorghe doesn't respond, Veekeeris says, "See. Can't even defend himself, and that's why Avram was able to trick them all with dreams of grandeur and be his little work horses."
Avram says, "I assure you I only make them work 80 hours per week."
Stiprais says, "That's slave labour!" Grabbing Ivana's hands, he says, "Oh god, look at the callous under my baby's palm. You pig! She was only twelve when you took her, and you've been subjecting her to all of this!"
"Papa, I enjo-."
"Shh, I am talking, don't speak."
Maple slamming her fist against a table, says, "LISTEN TO YOUR DAUGHTER GODDAMMIT!"
"Control yourself. Do you not know how unbecoming for a woman like you to be raising your voice like that?"
"OH, SHUT UP! MY dad was bad, but at least he was trying to protect me. Right now, you're both insulting Ivana's achievements!"
Vėja scoffs and says, "Achievements? Oh, please tell me what of substance these three have achieved."
Wadim says, "We have actually been working on multiple different bioengineering tools, we thought I could help the people with stran-."
"I don't care how important it is in your mind, I am saying, what tangible achievement have you received, what accolades have been given to you? How have the people of our country benefited from you being gone for almost 20 full years?"
Wadim falls to silence, and Vėja says, "You never had any long-term planning, and just always tried to pick the easiest option when given any form of choice. You were lazy and good for nothing when given work, and spending your time in the country of Elpída has surely rotted your brain with the never-ending streams of degeneracy that high-minded country overflows with."
Wadim's anger builds, and he says, "Can you not shit on me for just a second. It's always Wadim sucks, Wadim is stupid, Wadim can never do anything. Why are you always looking down on me? I can actually do things to a higher level more than most, but you just keep putting me down. I can't be Destro, so can you stop mentally comparing everything I do to him in your demented, little brain?"
"Oh, shut Wadim. The fact that you call all and every bit of criticism 'shitting on you' is your first mistake; you don't think properly and end up in less than happy situations. You've always been a lover, but it's been twenty years, and no wife, or kids, despite having a rather beautiful inheritance. How much money do you have? What's your five-year plan? How good is your health? Or have you not thought about any of that and just hope your association with Maple, Orb and his allies will get you a comfy government job where you can waste away? Let me tell you, there are many people with far better work ethic than you, and far more ambition who will easily outpace and run circles around you, but then you won't have any other place to run to, like how you ran out of Blestemate. Your younger brother understood the weight his actions had on his future, and that's why he is successful with a wife and child. While you can barely speak in front of your own mother."
Wadim's head falls low, and Iancu says, "What do you know about any of them? These three idiots have been there for me longer than anyone else in the world. When I lost my mother, when my father fell into a deep depression, they all stood by me throughout it all, and even with all the changes that have happened since, they haven't run a single step away from us."
Vėja laughs and says, "Is that what you think? I guess they have deluded your genius brain."
Wadim twitches, and Veekeeris says, "More than you'll ever know because we are their parents. They can't cast the shrouds over us like they can do with strangers they meet, and besides, despite all you say to them, they don't really care about you."
"How dare you say that say that about them?"
Vėja says, "Right when I just complimented you, Wadim reacted negatively."
"I didn't!"
"SILENCE! I know how your body reacts to my words. Why do you think that is, Iancu? It's actually rather simple, because he got jealous, he was jealous that someone who is younger than him is doing better than him, and the other two beside you are just as pathetic."
Stiprais says, "After your mother died, you and Avram didn't talk to each other for a few years, correct?"
Avram says, "How do you know that?"
Stiprais says, "Orb has been coming to our chambers at night to strike up a conversation."
Avram says, "That idiot!"
Stiprais says, "Despite all the supposed love they have for you, why would they allow your relationship to deteriorate for so long, only trying after outside forces started to repair it?"
Vėja says, "Because they liked the sense of being important and superior."
Ivana raises her head and says, "No, that isn't-."
"It is. Because people with nothing of substance, like the three of you cowards, need the validation of others to keep holding your heads up high, without it, you'd crumble into the giant pieces of sludge that you are."
Veekeeris says, "And none of you even have any degree of mental strength to face the reality of this. You'd collapse right into a pile of nothingness if you even had to look in the mirror for five seconds."
Stiprais says, "That's why we know, you all know nothing. That's why we know, you can't think. Because when left up to your own devices, you'll always pick the most selfish option, while making excuses all the way to trick yourself into thinking you're good. Nothing but scum."
The heads of the three fall lower as they try to grip the words said by their parents onto their bodies. The curses from the words placed on them sicken their bodies, minds, and souls, yet with a look of confusion pasted across his face, Iancu says, "Did you think I didn't know that you dullards?"
The three idiots look up at Iancu, and he says, "Ivana is a bubbling drunk who gets played by men like a fiddle every single day. Wadim is a giant bitch who can't help but complain about every single minor inconvenience that he has, especially when it is with a woman. Gheorghe is a gigantic coward who has let drunk people piss on him because he was too embarrassed to tell them to stop."
Willow, Maple, and Abbán's eyes all fall on the three idiots as Dumnorix breaks out in laughter.
"Yet Ivana caring a nurturing side towards everyone, especially when we are feeling down, has kept me healthier than any medicine. Wadim's honesty and truthfulness have always allowed me to express myself even on the days I hated being me, and Gheorghe's kindness reminds me that no matter how horrible the world becomes, you can still be kind. You see three weak cowards, but all I see are three amazing idiots who are too stupid to see how great they are. You're their parents yet you know next to nothing about them!"
The three adults ruminate in their thoughts before they burst out with words.
Stiprais says, "TELL ME THEIR NAMES!"
Vėja says, "Seriously, is all you do complain. Now, who was the woman, and what did they do to you?"
Veekeeris says, "Let's go right now to Elpída, you're going to squash that made malls."
As the parents head towards their children to pester them, Avram says, "How overprotective, couldn't be me."
"Lying on a holy day."
Avram turns his head and glares at Orb, who stands behind him, before he realises who it is. Orb quickly claps his hands, creates ice between the minister and their children, then says, "Well, it seems today has been rather eventful, but we will be bringing this all to an end, so goodnight, everybody!"
Stiprais says, "I NEED NAMES!"
Orb throws a list of names towards him and says, "That's about half of the bastards. I will give you the other half on another date if you behave. I can also tell you Wadim's and Gheorghe's stories if you guys follow Stiprais' lead as well."
Stiprais stares at the names, then kills his finger, causing a member of Perfecțiune to appear. Veekeeris then says, "Those are acceptable parameters."
Vėja adds, "I agree, but there is another issue we would like to discuss now that you're here, Orb. We plan on carrying out a raid on Blamator's hideout tomorrow."
Shock strikes the room, and Orb says, "You found them?"
"Yes, Dragoste work has been excellent so far, and as tomorrow is the last day of celebration for Radonitsa, who don't know what they might be planning and will be striking them before they can act, and we would like you and Dumnorix to come along."
Dumnorix jumps up, laughs and says, "I would be happy to come along and destroy aggravating elements in societ-."
Abbán strikes Dumnorix's stomach and then asks, "Why?"
Orb says, "It's because the ministers are trying to make a show of this."
Vėja says, "Correct. We want to completely crush these elements and show the power of the Cursed countries' army, and by bringing a rather beloved human along, we might be able to calm down some of the rising discriminatory thoughts about humans here to lower the civil unrest."
"All the things I have done so far have been of my free will. If I work so closely with you guys in this, there is a chance people might see everything I have done so far as set up."
"It could exist, but we already have agents spreading rumours for us, and when we crush Blamator's network of agents, we will win this country's information wars."
Abbán says, "Manipulating your people is sick work."
"Letting people enter foolish wars is far more disgusting, wouldn't you say?"
He falls to silence, and Orb says, "I see and I understand. I accept, but if so, how would you pay us back?"
"To culminate Radonitsa, a party is held for important figures throughout Blestemate at the end of tomorrow, you can all attend, and gather favour from them all. It will help you quite a bit in your future endeavours."
"That sounds good." Orb sticks out his hand, and Vėja grabs, shaking it.