Drinking Buddies

## Dialogue

**Frye**
*"Hey there, Cross."*
*"Care to join us? I was just having a drink with my new Wrothian friend here."*
*"He was telling me how tough it is to be the oldest son in a Wrothian family. Lots of responsibility having to inherit the family name and sword and all that."*
*"I had it pretty tough, too. When I was born, it was just me - but then one day, all outta the blue, everyone said I had to start acting like a big brother."*
*"Worse still, my little brother was better than me at just about everything. That's how I got all bitter and ended up the way I am today."*
*"So how about it? If you were in our situation, which brother would you rather be? Older or younger?"*
**Cross**
Choice A - *Older*: *Say that you'd rather be an elder brother.*
**Frye**
*"Glutton for punishment, huh? Just like me and my Wrothian friend here."*
*"Of course, I bet younger brothers complain they got it worse. But you just gotta review the history to see who's actually right."*
*"Let's compare grades back in school, for instance."*
*"I averaged about a B-minus. Er, give or take."*
*"Then Phog came along and started getting A-pluses across the board! You wouldn't believe the praise they lavished on him."*
*"Look how much smarter he is than Frye!" Pffft. Buncha crap, but people just couldn't get over it."*
*"You ask me, it's not really fair to compare old report cards if you don't pay attention to how a person has grown since, you know?"*
*"And what was I supposed to do with that? Argue? I'd look like an even bigger fool!"*
*"So I just bottled up all that resentment instead."*
*"Looking back on it, I probably should've tried to stay ahead of Phog."*
*"But that never really occurred to me at the time."*
*"Course, that's all water under the bridge."*
*"Phog is Phog and Frye is me, ya know?"*
*"And I don't see him being better than me. No way."*
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**Cross**
Choice B - *Younger*: *Say that you'd rather be a younger brother.*
**Frye**
*"Taking the easy way out, huh?"*
*"But you know what? I bet you'd actually have made a pretty awesome little brother."*
*"Phog was always an indoor kind of kid. We barely ever played together."*
*"He was kinda sickly, too. He'd get heatstroke if we ever played in direct sun for more than 10 minutes. Plus migraines. And don't get me going on allergies!"*
*"But you and me? We'd have gone hunting and kayaking and played stickball together and all that. We would have had a ton of fun!"*
*"Luckily for Phog, he's got a mimeosome now, so I guess he ain't sickly anymore. Huh..."*
*"Maybe once things have settled down a bit, me and him can go fishing together or something."*
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**Cross**
Choice C - *Neither*: *Say that you'd rather be an only child.*
**Frye**
*"Aw, come on! You don't mean that."*
*"You don't remember stuff from before you got here, right? So you've probably forgotten your family."*
*"Well trust me - even when you hate him, it's good to have a brother."*
*"Even after being dumped on this weird planet, I still feel a kind of bond that can never be broken."*
*"Having family just feels different from having friends. It's weird. I can't explain it."*
*"You should give it a shot. Even if you don't have siblings, you can still piece together a family from folks you meet, you know?"*
(END)