Clarinet's own position on prejudice was rather interesting. On one hand, he certainly wasn't the kind of person that thought badly of Kelvin just because he was a Frost Demon. Clarinet more or less considered everyone equal. What was interesting was the flip side of that equation.<br/><br/>After all, to him everyone was equal, but Namekians were more equal than everyone else. History had dealt Planet Namek a pretty bad hand. While his views weren't always right, there were reasons that he had held them. Still, fortunately, his questions had kept the conversation moving so there didn't seem to be much of an issue anyway.<br/><br/>What Kelvin was saying, though, certainly had made Clarinet look pretty embarrassed. The idea that his energy exchange system was inefficient compared to the one that Frost Demons used was already embarrassing. What was more embarrassing, though, was that he had to admit that he didn't even have the kind of energy exchange that Kelvin probably thought that he had.<br/><br/>"You know, Namekians largely rely on external power sources that we then internalize and store. I do feed myself through photosynthesis after all. I'm glad that I get a little light everywhere we go. It makes life go much more easily."<br/><br/>Still he was glad that he was getting that biology lesson. It would have been very useful since they were going to start training soon enough.<br/><br/>Regardless of what Kelvin was saying about the environment and training here, Clarinet figured that he was just going to have to stay focused. He could teach Kelvin plenty. Additionally he had assumed that he would have learned plenty from the other individual as well. Their fighting skills were obviously based on very different traditions to say the least. Actually, it looked like Kelvin's tradition was sort of a lack of any tradition at all.<br/><br/>Eventually his features softened at what the other was starting to say. He looked at Planet Namek longingly as well. "There was a major climate shift there at one point. We were able to restore our world with the Dragon Balls. I can't help but think of how perfect Planet Namek looks all over again."<br/><br/>With a bit of a wry smile, he soon shut his eyes and rubbed the back of his head. The next thing that he had to say was kind of awkward after all. "The reason for the change has to do with the Frost Demons."<br/><br/>The Dragon Balls had again creeped into the conversation. Kelvin had a moment where we had realized how much more real this all was. The fact that Clarinet had said that Namek looked the way it did because of the Dragon Balls might have helped to drive home his earlier point.<br/><br/>"Don't criticize yourself for being a destroyer. A few destroyers are needed to make sure that everyone else in society has the luxury to create." Clarinet smirked again as he had said this. "I hope that you realize that as a warrior-type Namekian, I was raised from the moment I hatched to destroy."<br/><br/>Perhaps just a little bit of Kelvin's more snide personality had rubbed off on Clarinet. That might have explained why the last few things that he had said got punctuated with expressions that weren't as stony as usual. Still, it took plenty to interpret these expressions, which were every bit as masked as ever. "We'll need to train really hard if we're going to get the Dragon Balls."<br/><br/>Turning back to the floating map object, he motioned toward the Dragon World. "We could actually travel there for Senzu Beans, collect some, train on the way toward Namek as well and then be there without wasting too much time. There's a hyperspace route that I could map between them all. Still, it's important to train for the being here."<br/><br/>Should there have been no disagreements on the part of Kelvin, Clarinet would have gotten right down to it. He didn't think that they could have started into anything else unless he showed Kelvin the stances that he knew, but honestly Clarinet picked something up because Kelvin had ended up with a largely brawler-based style that was practiclaly inspired.<br/><br/>Eventually he had moved into a series of drills that would have seen the Namekian demonstrating with Kelvin a number of counters for each position that he could have thought of. His style wasn't complicated or flashy at this level, but instead focused largely on the practical.<br/><br/>In part, this was because he realized that the Frost Demon didn't have any formal training yet, so teaching him any sophisticated Ki techniques at this point would have been pointless. He needed to build up a solid fundamental base before he could do anything like that.<br/><br/>He also didn't know if some of his techniques, like the Antenna Beam, would even work. Clarinet wasn't sure that someone like that could have learned it. Then, however, he had one idea in reference to teaching it and figured that it might have been good to try it.<br/><br/>Smirking a bit to himself as he wiped some sweat from his mouth with the back of his wrist, Clarinet looked straight into Kelvin's eyes. "At this point I figure that you've finally started to feel your Ki. Do you want to learn that kind of beam that I used before? Focus on cycling that Ki throughout your vascular system, and then make sure that it's oxygenated before focusing it all...on your horns."<br/><br/>it was a long shot, and even Clarinet had to admit it. He wasn't sure that something like that was actually going to work. Still, he showed a lot of interest in the technique that he had used before, and he figured that if the other's horns could be used that way, then maybe it was worth a shot. That was, of course, no matter just how long that shot actually was. Perhaps if Kelvin had started to put together enough of a base in the fundamentals, though, then maybe it would have looked a little better for him and improved the chance that something might have actually clicked.