You keep up the sparring with Bass and Tenor, who knows they might learn something. It's... an experience that's for sure. The other knights are rather predictable in their motions. Very quickly you settle into a rhythm that you could keep up for weeks if the mood took you. So while you have the spare brainpower you strike up a conversation with Bass.
"Okay Bass, I know you weren't improperly summoned like me so what's the deal with you being... you know, sentient?" You ask, unsure what you're going to hear.
"Well... I was before," Bass says slowly, "Sorta anyway. I mean, I could think but it was only after You and the voices took over the obelisk that I felt... different. Like I could think beyond just Order." Wait he knows about the voices!?
"You know about the voices?" You ask in shock. Given Sullinus, at best, only gets a vague impression of them you hadn't thought that the Knights could hear them as well.
"Yeeees." Bass draws out the word and tilts his helm quizzically to the left. "Oh wait! Does that make you my dad?" He brings his left fist up to roughly where his chin would be and hunches a little, like he's deep in thought. "Well, the voices are a mix of both genders, I think, so both mom and dad?" You stand there stunned by the very idea. Bass rubs his helm making a sound like someone running their finger around the lip of a half full wine glass.
"This thinking for yourself stuff is hard." He adds, almost whining. Oh god! He really is a little kid! ARGH! You aren't ready for this kind of responsibility!
"Y-Yeah Bass... yeah it is." You say shakily, weight of responsibility clanging onto your shoulders with each word. You need a distraction and you need it now. "Hey I know a perfect song for you!" Bass, Baritone and Tenor started as your backup singers and damn it they are going to live up to the early potential you saw in them!
You start teaching Bass 'All About That Bass' the pun is too amusing to pass up. While you're at it you drag in Tenor and begin teaching him Opera. At least you think it's opera...
Pavarotti sang it so it has to be opera.
Tenor has a good voice and not having to breathe helps about as much as it hinders. It's a little hard to get the timing of each line correct without needing to inhale but you work past it with Tenor and soon he's got owls flapping from their perches in outrage at their silent night being disturbed.
Unfortunately that doesn't distract you as long as you hoped for. You have to resort to desperate measures.
"...and that is why we must succeed in our mission to defeat the Legion of Doom! Or, as the people here know them, the Dark Brotherhood!" You raise one hand and puff out your chest in a suitably heroic fashion. "And this is why we shall now be known as the Justice League of Tamriel!"
Bass and Tenor clap politely at the end of your speech. And,
ohthankgod, the sun's just peeking over the horizon. "Let's get back to the city, best vampire probably starts the working day early." Bass obliges without any mental prompting form you. Tenor doesn't move until you order him to. Apparently Tenor hasn't mastered all the subtleties of unorderlyness yet.
When you get to the inn Freyja and Morlia are ready and waiting for you. Sullinus, looking a bit more stable and sane than he did yesterday evening, waves a hand tentatively at you from behind the guardswoman. Diana is presumably still asleep.
"Good morning!" You call out cheerily to the trio awaiting you.
"Hello!" Bass says enthusiastically.
Tenor waves mechanically from side to side twice. Freyja glances between you, Bass and Tenor. "Uh... there aren't any distinguishing marks between the two new guys. Maybe you could..." she starts and a lightbulb ignites in your mind. You grab a lump of charcoal from the inn fire, well you think it's charcoal anyway, and turn to your two Knights.
You draw a large S shape on Bass' chestplate. It would look better in red but it'll serve until you can retouch it in red paint... or until it rains. On Tenor's chest you draw a lightning bolt. Both done you turn back to Freyja proudly. She stares at you like you've gone completely insane. Morlia doesn't question it, she's actually smiling.
"Well... I mean.... How do an S and a lightning bolt relate to Bass and Tenor?" Freyja asks like it's not obvious.
"Because...."
"No, hold it, no time. Explain after we've seen Count Hassidor." Freyja shakes her head and motions for everyone to follow her.
"What about Diana, she was there too. Isn't what she saw also important? Not to mention Lucas." You ask and Freyja pauses.
"Do you want to wake her up?" Morlia raises an eyebrow at you.
"I was planning to check if Lucas was still where you left him on the way to the castle." Freyja pauses by the door, Sullinus at her side. "I doubt it personally but if you want to get the kid up while I see if he's still around then meet later that's fine."
[ ] Wake up Diana
[ ] Go with Freyja to see if Lucas is still in the temple
Urgh
mom, I feel like some kind of horrible stain has tarnished my Britishness