( Stupidly, for a ridiculous second, despite literally shooting nerf darts at these birds that he's been imagining roasting and eating, he gets the same impulse to maybe help the poor little guy. But then that asshole survives, and it's super fucking annoying, and he starts annoyingly squabbling with his equally annoying friend, and so Jack levels the next nerf dart at the berry itself and shoots it out from between the two of them. It plunks into the ocean for some fortunate fish to find, and they can both suck a butt. )

Yeah, maybe. I don't really like the cold very much, so... the Free Cities was probably more like Louisiana than Thorne. Just... more dry.

( Something-something-it's not the heat that gets you, it's the humidity.

And hey, speaking of that tension — he can feel it creeping up his spine, just a little. Time to deflect more: )

I'm also not a huge fan of authoritarian regimes, so that part got pretty annoying.