Got love for the people that have warned you

[itookashot]

WHO: Jesper Fahey and you!
WHAT: Catch-all for November, featuring inn renovations!
WHERE: Cadens, Nocwich, Horizon
WHEN: Throughout November
WARNINGS: NSFW for threads within





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[aquilus]

"Mmm. So I've been told."

Does he believe it? Yes and no. He doesn't believe that any of those who have gone back and returned once more were lying or mistaken about their experiences. But what Jesper describes is almost too simple in its way, and Altaïr does not trust anything about this to be simple. He listens carefully, though, interest more than piqued by another story from one who'd apparently crossed worlds more than once.

"I'm glad you had something good to look back on," he says, and means it — and that's as much a sign as any that the past year has changed him, because this would not have been the case a year ago. "Despite that, what is so bad about the place you came from?"

[itookashot]

"I'm definitely one of the lucky ones. I think most people end up with more reasons to stay." Jesper hasn't asked around since that seems a bit private. Not everyone is as open to sharing as he is, and he respects that, in a general way. He may press more on the people he knows, but that's after establishing a connection.

As for his home, well. Jesper considers how to explain it, tapping his fingers thoughtfully against the wood. "It's in a war, a real one, not the implications of one here. And one side of it wants every person like me to die. They would torture and burn us until we stop existing. There is no middle ground." They do keep a few pet Grisha to do some of their killing for them, but that's the ones that are addicted to drugs and will die eventually regardless.

"The other side of it wants to use my kind in their army, so it's not a good world for us. I've had to hide it my whole life to try to avoid either fate, whereas here everyone's magic, it's not a big deal." So Jesper can be altering chairs and wood and tables with his abilities out in the public eye with no fear. It too him awhile to trust that, but he does now.