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I know Nocwich is a possibility too since we can all get there and be around each other.

( the only downside is that it's only open to them once a month. not too convenient. )

I know Solvunn's really big into the Old Gods over there. I don't know much about them but there's been sacrifices and such there.

Good idea.

[Once a month or not, their opportunities to met in person are very limited, so they have to take what they can get. With some planning it might work well enough.

As for Solvunn--]

The more I hear about Solvunn the more glad I am that I'm not there.

[His luck has felt pretty bad in his time here so far, but perhaps that's to balance out being fortunate enough to end up in the Free Cities. As suspicious as he is of the faction, at least daily life seems better than in Thorne or Solvunn.]

It's...something, isn't it?

( he thinks the only saving grace of solvunn for him would be being around wanda more but he knows he'd probably get bored, get antsy. )

They have animals, though? Farms and stuff. Not that that's...better.

['Something' is a nice way to put it. There's also something a little inherently humorous in Matt trying to find something nice to say and landing on farm animals.]

Even more reason I'm glad I'm not there. I've never even seen a farm animal in person except for chickens.

[And he can't say he's too fond of them. He supposes he's also seen horses, but then again that was always from a distance.]

I gotta ask though...

( especially now that he's said that — )

Why chickens?

[Don't ask about his nemeses.]

Long story, but started with a school field trip and ended most recently with chasing a suspect through a market.

[At every turn: chickens. Not really, but they're so annoying.]

And then, chickens.

( it sounds like a story and, even not knowing, matt laughs. )

You keep chickens as pets or not that much of a fan?

They're terrible.

[They're loud, they smell bad, and he's pretty sure a rock is more aware of its surroundings than a chicken is.]

I have definitely not been encounterin' chickens by choice.

[But his own bad chicken experiences aside--]

How about you? Any encounters with farm life?

Yeah, not one.

( not even close. )

I can't even remember going on pony rides as a kid, you know? We were always right in the middle of the city. Not great for animals.

Yeah. Me either.

[For pretty much the same reason, though speaking of pony rides--]

I've been thinkin' I should try and learn to ride a horse, though.

[It's easy enough to get around in the city on foot, but it'd be nice to have options for longer range travel if necessary in the future.]

Yeah? You're gonna have to let me know how that goes. Walking's pretty much my only option.

( easiest thing to when he was blind. )

Ever gotten on a horse before?

I'll let you know if I survive. I've never even been close to a horse, and that's probably been for the best.

[He's heard they can sense nervousness and so he can only imagine horses will hate him, which is why despite knowing he should learn to ride, he hasn't even tried yet.]

Don't have much experience with animals in general, actually. Did you get to play with the little winged cat things though?

[The ones brought to the hospital in Cadens after the whole pit incident.]

I was kind of out of it when they were around. I think I touched one or at least heard one.

( which, you know, was something. he was in and out of consciousness during that whole ordeal. )

Heard they were pretty cute though. You got to play with them?

Yeah, just for a short time though.

[For various reasons, from Jayden spending as much time in the Horizon as possible to running around whenever he had opportunity to then crashing whenever he overdid it. But he'd played when them when having to stay a night after returning to Cadens.]

I think Istredd's got one in his Domain. I might have to put one in mine too.

[In case Matt wants more opportunity to play with them. Jayden hadn't thought much about making animals in his domain yet, aside from intending to make a few to show Hilda, but the little butterfly cats were strangely calming.]

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I've got a dog in mine. Wanda created him for me so now she lives in my Horizon and sometimes hers.

( first dog he'd ever had and while it was a magical dog only existing in one place, he still loves. )

Named Mary. After Hail Mary...

( something that matt knew very well. )

[Two equally pressing questions war briefly in Jayden's mind, as he's torn between asking if Matt is religious and what type of dog he has. Both very interesting, but in completely different ways.

But the latter is easier to ask later, and so he focuses on the former instead.]

Catholic?

How'd you guess?

( he laughs though and then nods. )

Born and raised. Kind of lapsed, if I'm honest, but can't take the Catholic out of the boy, I guess.

That's what I've heard, but I didn't grow up religious, so it's not somethin' I've ever really understood.

[He doesn't say it judgmentally--he has no problem at all with people being religious--just factual and a bit curious. It's one of those things that is so meaningful to a lot of people but he only has secondhand experience with.]

I grew up with it and I guess I just never left it behind. Guess that happens when you grow up in a Catholic orphanage.

( religion kind of becomes part of your life. )

I pray, I believe, but I'm not gonna be smiting people or anything like that.

Yeah, I imagine that'd do it.

[He mentally files away that little bit of info, but doesn't ask further; since Matt volunteered the information it's probably not that sensitive, but that doesn't mean it's not a jerk move to pry.

Instead--]

Is that weird, with being here? Knowin' there's magic and apparently gods or somethin'?

[And an angel, apparently, though Jayden decides not to mention that just yet.]

It's a change but it's not weird. It helps that, before I ended up here, there were some weird things going on back home.

( avengers, invasions, aliens, that sort of thing. it was hard to stay grounded and disbelieve in the supernatural after that. )

So, I guess I was kind of prepared for something bigger and weirder.

Yeah? What was going on in your world?

[He's curious now; Matt is the second person he's spoken to who seems to have had a relatively recent change in their world's weirdness levels before arriving here.]

Depends on the day. But, we'd recently had an alien invasion that nearly levelled half the city.

( thanks, avengers. )

Got my office on the cheap because of it.

Aliens.

[He repeats it flatly, both because it's unbelievable and because it's strangely... Not. Maybe just because aliens are somewhat more plausible in his own world than a whole lot of the stuff he's seen and heard about here, but then again he's starting to get used to the sort of things that happen here, so that makes aliens more unusual.

...He's gong to stop overthinking it.]

Never thought about the effect aliens might have on real estate.

Yeah, aliens.

( matt knows how it sounds and all he can do is laugh at how flat jayden sounds. )

Don't ask me much more about them because I don't know. I mostly just kind of...tried not to get killed while it was all happening.

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