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[razethebar]

WHAT in person or whatever
WHERE outside LuXe or wherever
WHEN Day 2??

[ Just outside LuXe, Handsome Jack is observing a hapless NPC erect a cardboard standee that looks like Jack, holding a cup of coffee, only at like 150% scale. ]

Yeah, that looks great, I don't know why you're looking so skeptical, Jimmy. People are gonna see that and be like, wow, that definitely looks like a guy I want to sleep with slash be, but if the closest I can get is buying coffee here, I am definitely going to do that right now. Trust me.

[ Or maybe you're elsewhere, I'm not the boss of you. Unless I am. ]

Comments

[twicebonded]

I'm glad to hear it.

[taking a sip]

—it's good!

[abardacttofollow]

[sips too] ...It really is...!

[twicebonded]

[a little laugh, as he sits down on a couch near the window]

There's . . . a lot of interesting new things here.

[abardacttofollow]

Found other things you like?

[sits across from him]

[twicebonded]

Electricity, the phones, lots of really interesting fashion . . .

[abardacttofollow]

It does look a lot better dry.

[twicebonded]

If it weren't for the sense of . . . "I should be somewhere else," then it might be—. . . well.

[abardacttofollow]

Nice?

[twicebonded]

. . . it has potential.

[abardacttofollow]

Right. Well, who knows. Maybe this has happened for a reason.

[twicebonded]

A reason . . .

[abardacttofollow]

Well, I'm no Herald, but Heralds seem to show up where needed.

[twicebonded]

Typically we are sent . . .

[abardacttofollow]

Sure, I know it.

[twicebonded]

I don't see what I could possibly do here.

[abardacttofollow]

How long have you been here...?

[twicebonded]

. . .

[HUFFS]

[abardacttofollow]

I'm not sure how it would hurt to approach things seeing what you can do, instead of deciding up front that you can't. Worst case scenario, you later find out you were right in the first place.

[twicebonded]

. . . you're right. It's just . . .

I'd—I felt like I had barely started to be able to do good things, in Valdemar. To make up for—

[he stops talking abruptly]

[abardacttofollow]

...Most Heralds don't have to. None should have to.

[twicebonded]

I want to.

[abardacttofollow]

Wanting to do good isn't the—sorry, I know it's not my business.

[twicebonded]

No, tell me.

[abardacttofollow]

[fidgets with his drink]

It's not fair. To you or him. Other people's expectations for you to live differently than any other Herald. I know there's always going to be parts of that in you regardless of that but I feel like... there's also unfair parts from others.

[twicebonded]

[his breath catches loudly]

. . .