𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥, 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕔𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕚𝕕𝕖

[tobeclosetohim]

Who: Jo Harvelle & Various
When: October
Where: Free Cities, Horizon, Libertas
What: Training, Hunting, Mag's, Roadhouse Stuff
Warnings: Swearing, Drinking, Flirting, Violence

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[tobeclosetohim]

No.

There's more than you'd expect.
But normal people don't know about them.
Not until something rips apart their life.

[ She'd curbed the first impulse that went 'rips apart the bodies of their loved ones,' for the dude. Who says Jo doesn't have taste and the ability to read the room and actually act accordingly sometimes? Like once a year. Hunter Christmas. Merry whatever, Matt. It might not last long.

She took another swig from her beer, eying the room.
There are so many faces this room will never see again.

So many people who died screaming in this room that shouldn't exist.]

[catholica]

Probably wouldn't have ever found my way there. Or anyone that I know.

( because while his life had been ripped apart, it hadn't been by something that bumps in the night. it had been by someone very real, very human, who'd decided that his dad had made the wrong decision and deserved to pay.

and then, roscoe had gotten what was coming to him. )

But it doesn't really surprise me that something like that exists. Guess it's good to have somewhere to congregate and just — decompress.

sorry, last week utterly ate me!

[tobeclosetohim]

That is the point.

[ Where anyone else might say that pointedly, Jo is confidentially amused. All expected. She'd have been surprised if he did know anyone in the life, and she's adjusting to the fact a lot of worlds don't seem to have a lot of things. Not that she thinks most people would know if their worlds did have them. Only those in the life talked about it, and usually only with others in it.

There was so much they did that no one believed was real. Not to mention the amount of what they did that was openly illegal. Jo patted the table, unruffled by any of the facts she's grown up knowing the whole while. ]

That was this girl. Part port in the storm, part of phone tree, part research archive, item storage, and group match up. It was a lot of whatever our people needed when they needed it.

you're all good, i've been sick!

[catholica]

Must have been nice to have somewhere like that.

( matt wonders, for a second, if something like that would have benefitted people like him back in new york. but then he wonders if he would have even used something like that considering how strongly he keeps people away when he needs to. )

Getting a lot of use here?

[tobeclosetohim]

Here and there, yeah.

[ It's a discerning clientele. It's not that she, or Dean, are going to turn away anyone showing up for a drink who doesn't know what's up or have a reason to be told—like the Roadhouse back home, open to tourists and truckers passing through—but it's selective. That selective, discerning group isn't catering to such large numbers worldwide. ]

It kind of depends on where The Summoned are when, what's going on out there,
and whether they're the kind of people inclined to all this.

[catholica]

( matt nods because that makes sense. sometimes, the horizon is a forgotten thing while things are going on in the cities.

but sometimes, it's good to escape to a place like this. )

Inclined to all this? Bars or bars centered around hunting?

[tobeclosetohim]

[ Jo leaned on the bar; habit more than thought out choice ] Those in the life.

It's not exact here. Not outside of Dean and me. But there're a number of people who did the same kinds of jobs. Who worked on taking out the monsters in their worlds no matter what it cost them.

[ Most of theirs, unlike Jo, lost everything they had when some monster or demon invaded their life and killed the person, or people, most important to them. They were driven, and even after they got revenge—if they managed that at all—they stayed in. They knew too much to turn their back on the darkness and what it did to every unsuspecting person out there. ]

[catholica]

( he thinks he's talked to dean once and, from what he remembers, it makes sense that he'd be here. so, he nods. )

Hell, even if it was just the two of you, it's nice to have something familiar. I'm still getting used to all this Horizon stuff but when I'm there, it's just...I like being able to take a breath.

( and while he does know that it's not exactly real, it's close enough. )

[tobeclosetohim]

[ Jo mouth tucked a little crooked, ]

I still find the whole thing weird.

And if I think about it for too long I think it's a better trap than a respite.

[catholica]

Oh, don't put that into my head.

( because he's never really thought of that before and he doesn't want to start now. )

I think it's a handy tool or whatever it is for communicating with other factions, at least. We wouldn't be able to see them if we didn't have it. So, there is a benefit.

[tobeclosetohim]

[ Jo's far too astute not to think about it. ]

Oh, I'm not saying there aren't any benefits. There's a lot of those, too.


[ Enough to make one not think about much more than the wrapping paper. As noted. ]

[catholica]

I get where you're coming from, though.

( it's hard to think of anything in this place as...a gift or something helpful. not when they couldn't leave, not when they were about to be thrust into the middle of some kind of war.

they're on the precipice right now. he just hopes it doesn't tip. )

It's hard to relax here.

[tobeclosetohim]

Hard might be an understatement.

[ Jo took another drink. ]

And it's all looking like it might just get harder.

[catholica]

Glad to know that I'm not the only one that's a little pessimistic about this place.

( because yeah, he feels the same. )

I guess at least we're not alone with it?

[tobeclosetohim]

[ Jo let her finger trace part of the rim. ]

I don't know a whole lot about the other factions, only met my first few of them during that Nocwich weekend, but from what I can tell of the people around here, everyone has a lot of opinions about what's happening to them. Whether they get a say in it.

[catholica]

I know a few people in Solvunn.

( though, he and wanda don't really talk too much about the differences between the factions. )

And I've heard things about Thorne. Apparently, you're really under someone's thumb over there.