where fast the Arctic nights set in

[perfectcameo]

Who: Logan, Laura Kinney, Njoki Rainmaker, and some other people probably. Not all at the same time.
What: Existing in Baedal once an obvious exit sign has since not been found.
Where: Various!
Warnings: Swearing, so we can get an Oscar.

Shaking the cage of people in his same predicament, turns out, isn't as engaging as he had hoped. He doesn't like the CiD, it fits wrong in his hand, he feels like he could shatter it if he draws tendon and bone tight in a fist, and its mechanisms feel too small for his fingers. But eventually, he sends off a text message, some delayed and somewhat grudging.

could use that beer

He misses traffic, too. Cars don't spook so easily and he can live out of a truck.

There is a time after dusk that he picks up a scent, and follows it all the way into the Spatters. He'd been looking for it before and despite the waning hour, because a little darkness never killed nobody, and he had to know.

The evenings he isn't working in the gambling dens, with cards and fists both, to make his way are spent in hibernation on uncomfortable mattresses with a roof over his head. Daylight holds as many bar interiors as the evening. It isn't like useless, purposeless roaming never suited him before.

It just chafes, this time around.

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Comments

[aldabeyoun]

"You seemed like a stand-up kind of guy," she says with a shrug. "And, I think it's a damn good idea to know who's in the cohort."

"You weren't here for it, but the last time the city went to shit, the gods tasked our cohort to do a bunch of Hercules' labours." Which is only slightly less mad than it actually sounds, but it provides a good reason to want to know reliable (or reliable looking) people.

[perfectcameo]

"What, cleaning out stables, killing lions, that sorta thing?"

Elbows on the countertop and framing his beer, cigar caught between two thick fingers, Logan is about as close to relaxed as he generally gets, which is to say slightly never relaxed, not when he has his back for the door and he's still in kidnap city and learning to get used to the idea.

He doesn't bat an eye about gods, either. He's read things, and that seems about as sane as being trapped by fog and monsters in Magicville.

[aldabeyoun]

"Looking for a magic lantern and paid by the gods with a letter home."

Njoki's not too sure how she feels about it, but she's used to a wide, strange world filled with deities and spirits.

"I can't deny, it's a bit shit, but I like being able to practice my trade in the open. Hoodoo and fleshcraft, if you know it?"

[perfectcameo]

"People bought that?"

And only after he gravels out this sharp edged piece of cynicism does it occur that maybe Njoki was one of said people that indeed bought that. He knocks loose cigar cinders into an ashtray, mouth pressing into a brief line before he glances at her, shakes his head at whether he knows much about hoodoo and fleshcraft, but he isn't uninterested either; his inquiry is just silent.

[aldabeyoun]

"Seemed to work or at least those of us with a letter could sell it off for a good price." For all the trouble, it was a good way to shore up her supplies and settle into the city.

"Mostly I work on the undead, some remade, some other folk who can't heal like the living. It's messy, but it's work, right?"

[perfectcameo]

"Not like they can take out health insurance." Wherever Logan comes from, he's heard weirder, or at least, there's room for that kind of weird even if he hasn't. "I, uh. My trade doesn't exactly translate, from where I come from to here." He didn't ask at the employment office if some off-shoot of the X-Men were recruiting, but he also didn't need to.

He shrugs. "I woulda picked a nicer place to go for a vacation, but you take what you get."

[aldabeyoun]

"At least it's warmer than Montreal, eh?" While her accent is mostly North African francophone, there's enough of a twang to her vowels that someone who's familiar with Canadian accents could place her as living in Quebec.

[perfectcameo]

That actually gets a laugh out of Logan; small and smokey, maybe, a fleeting huff before it's over, but it lingers in the quirk of a half-smile as he glances at her side on. She coulda just said that particular place at random, but he can pick up the notes in her voice as well.

"Canada?" Well, there you go. He taps ash off his cigar. "Sorry. Half expect folks to say they're from the fucking moon, or the magical kingdom of... wherever."

[aldabeyoun]

"You saying that my home isn't a magical kingdom?" Njoki, no. It is a lovely city and a very old one at that, but it is not the equivalent of Walt Disney World. "Where're you from then? You don't spit enough to be from La Belle Provence. "