"Ah." T'vor replied, nodding in understanding. "I suppose it is more efficient since you're already going that way, hm?" the question was rhetorical, but he relinquished his plate. His head turned to look towards the eatery's entrance, and suddenly he appeared to be alert again, as if glimpsing the outdoors had woken him up for some odd reason. "Excuse me. It has gotten later than I thought. Both of you get some sleep, there'll be plenty more work tomorrow." he told the two of them. Then he made his way back outside. It was time.
...
"I doubt very much that you could possibly know what is 'pleasing' to me, Princess. So you may as well forget your plan. Now if you're quite done, I must ask you to leave now. I'm busy." Sephiroth informed her blandly. He about to return to his food when a dragon's head poked through his tent flap.
It was T'vor.
"...Yes?" Sephiroth asked. T'vor looked between the prince and princess, his face unreadable. "...My Lord. Are you ready?" he asked. The other nodded. "My apologies, I'd forgotten. I got interrupted. I can come now." He replied. Once more, he set his plate aside and stood, before taking up a long scabbard from beside his cot and following the man out, but T'vor went back inside for a moment.
"Try not to irritate him too much, hm? You're not winning yourself any favors, from that last bit of conversation that I overheard." he told the princess. He then addressed the dragons. "You four might enjoy this." He said, then scooped them up in one arm and carried them back out.
"You shouldn't leave them behind, my Lord. You ought to keep them with you so they may learn." he said.
"Oh, right. My apologies, dragonlets." Sephiroth replied. The two of them headed off away from his tent. When they were out of earshot, T'vor spoke once more.
"It wouldn't hurt you to try to be a bit more patient with her."
"The whole thing is ridiculous. To think Chaos and Order trying to get along... It's madness."
"You haven't killed each other yet, have you? With that line of thinking, you'd assume that you'd be at each other's throats the moment you set eyes on the other. Yet you've managed to keep yourself together fairly well. Both of you."
"It certainly hasn't become a physical fight yet. But there is still a fight. She made a simple request--that I show her how to rule without imploding her people's civilization. That is all. Now she wants to convolute things and make a bargain with me. I have neither the time nor the inclination to deal with her vile schemes. If she wants to play games, she can find someone else to amuse her. I have far better things to do, and that is the end of it. I've had enough of her wasting my time." Sephiroth's tone of voice indicated he was done talking about the subject.
"Hm. Clearly then, relations are far more strained between our two peoples than we were originally striving for. A truce may be much more difficult to maintain at this rate, Sephiroth."
"I'm not surprised."
"Of course not."
By then, they had reached their destination. The clearing by the lake. T'vor set the four small dragons down on the large boulder that sat near the shore, and both men drew weapons. A sword in the hand of the prince, and a lance in the hand of the dragon man.
In a flash, the two men met, weapons striking sparks against each other.
The two of them sparred skillfully.