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early october, text

[marcas]

Hello how are you.

[wyldfire]

[Whelp, time to semi-lie.]

I'm fine, Noth. How have you been since your freedom? Forgive me for not checking up on you.

backdated to his talk with ren - voice

[marcas]

Hello, Jordana.

[ He's more quiet and uncertain than usual. Finally: ]

I'm glad you're alive.

[wyldfire]

I'm glad you're alive, too, Noth.

[She wasn't sure how to handle this, whatever it was, so she was going to let it play out.]

voice

[whatsinfrontofyou]

I am almost certainly overstepping by saying this but... if you have the time to get away from your overseer, might you check in on Dana?

I think she and Mulder had some kind of falling out.

Proooobably better not to mention my name either, since I'm already getting a cold shoulder over it.

[wyldfire]

[She looked from the beans boiling toward the room Aegon was in. She took every opportunity to get away.]

I'm not surprised. What happened?

» voice

[drysdale]

I got your skin mags.

[ And yes, it has taken him this long to get around to bothering with this. ]

Re: » voice

[wyldfire]

Excuse me?

voice;

[whatsinfrontofyou]

Soooo...

Are you planning on avoiding me forever?

Re: voice;

[wyldfire]

[Yes. Hence the text response a couple minutes later.]

I'm avoiding everyone.

voice

[greenpower]

So... what was it you wanted to show me?

Re: voice

[wyldfire]

Last month, I and some others encountered a mutated boar that was sprouting vines. It stunk of corruption and its fluids were corrosive.

We killed it, but it's death damaged the land. I tried to cleanse the corruption, but it only stopped the spread.

I'd like you to look at the location.

voice

[ragedagainst]

You ever come across people who looked human and were bugs underneath?

Not a monster transformation, just like, as their normal state of being?

Re: voice

[wyldfire]

Not personally but it sounds like one of the Wyrm's mockery breeds. Cockroach people.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything beyond that they exist.

voice

[whatsinfrontofyou]

Hey. Do you have time for something fun?

Re: voice

[wyldfire]

[Considering her plans next month, her time with Vex will be limited.]

I'll make time.

text;

[ghostlocked]

hey. i have your name.

Re: text;

[wyldfire]

[Harlan doesn't get to hear the growl that she initially reacted with. Probablyfor the best.]

I will defend myself.

[ 1 day after Jordana's punishment ends ]

[ragedagainst]

--just say there. Jordana. -- for yo-- Jordana --t's okay-- No.

[ The words fade in and out, a mental slurry of rushed thoughts and fearful anguish as Ren comes back into a semblance of consciousness. She concentrates hard on trying to burn through the poison but is still a staggering mess. ]

Where are you?

[wyldfire]

[Ren was lucky this wasn't any earlier or Jordana would be asleep. The Fury had collapsed in Ivy's garden once released to safely regenerate and sleep.

Hearing Ren's slurred thoughts was concerning because she knew how that poison felt firsthand. At least this answered the question about whether the Fianna had been captured or stood her up.]

I've been released. Currently hiding under a blanket in lupus on Vex's cell.

Where have you been?

voice

[whatsinfrontofyou]

Busy, darling?

[wyldfire]

Moderately, but I can set it aside for you.

[She was just observing some prey. It could be picked back up later.]

Looking for advice

[madaboutit]

[He contacts her midday, the day after this.]

Hey. Is now a good time?

[Sweeney had tried to balance between giving her the morning with Vex and her potential hunt at night.]

[wyldfire]

[Jordana was sitting alone in the library where it was quieter when Sweeney contacted her.]

Yeah. I gave up on trying to find a book in a language I could read that wasn't smut about twenty minutes ago.

voice

[greenpower]

I wonder if there's mango out in the jungle somewhere. I feel like fresh mangoes would blow these people's minds.

[wyldfire]

I know exactly where to find them. Makes a great salsa.

late september.

[pathography]

[ Walking home Vex's house, feeling utterly sorry for himself, it occurs to Percy that he's just made life far more complicated for people besides himself. Before he can think better of it, he fires a quick missive to Jordana and Sweeney, trying to keep things short and to the point.

He'll deal with the real fallout later. For now, he'd like to be the bigger person about this and slowly drink himself into a stupor. ]

Good afternoon,

I won't bore you with the details of explanations and excuses; to be completely honest with you, I don't especially want to think about any of this right now.

However, I do feel I owe you this much: Your relationship with Vex'ahlia is precious to her, and I recognize that. I respect it, and I have no intention of laying any claim that sets us at odds.

I hope we will be able to continue to work together on the future, as we have in the past.

Yours sincerely,
Percival de Rolo, etc.

[wyldfire]

[What an odd message to get out of nowhere, after a couple months of him being aware of her relationship with Vex, after a month of them working on the settlement together. It had her set aside the basket trap she was weaving and mull it over for a long moment. Thinking back to what all she's observed, what she knew, and what she'd been wondering since that housewarming party. What would prompt something like this?

Oh. Sex. That's what happened. She'd been wondering how long it would take for them to end up fucking. That it happened didn't bother Jordana. She understood that Vex had a high sex drive and she was a gorgeous, sexy woman. Anyone that didn't want to fuck her was simply not interested in sex with a woman. It was the rest that bothered her.

Namely that Percy felt the need to contact her at all. It spoke to there being more to this than a roll in the hay. That he felt he stepped over a line in his feelings for Vex (that Jordana had chosen not to examine too much, sometimes being a therapist sucked). And instead of letting Vex handle it, he was being preemptive, trying to get ahead. Sidestepping Vex's agency. And that stirred her Rage, seeing this happen yet again to Vex by another man in her life.

It was probably a good thing this was text.]

As Vex'ahlia hasn't spoken to me about anything regarding our relationship that would affect your and my collaborations, I see no reason that we can't continue working together. The settlement's prosperity is important to me, and I value your knowledge.

In the future, I recommend allowing Vex to handle her own relationships. If there is something that affects me, I trust her to bring it to my attention. What's between me and her is between me and her.

Take a long soak in the banya, Percy. It'll do you good.

voice

[whatsinfrontofyou]

I suppose it's too much to hope that Percy didn't send you a message too?

[wyldfire]

The men in your life have a very bad habit of ignoring your agency. I may bite the next one that does it and not feel bad afterward.

voice;

[whatsinfrontofyou]

I have no idea exactly what it will look like, but I think it's safe to say to say that whatever is going on with Percy is going to develop into some sort of a Thing.

It may take a while to figure out more than that.

[wyldfire]

[Great. Just what she needed on top of everything else.]

Good to know. Maybe by then I'll decide I'm speaking to you again.

voice;

[whatsinfrontofyou]

Let's say, for the sake of conversation, that someone wanted to give her girlfriend a small gift—a token, really, of her affection.

Is it possible that girlfriend would be free?

[wyldfire]

That girlfriend still has a little over an hour left in her work shift at the jeweler. If someone was willing to wait, said girlfriend would be free then.