hadriel_logs | Event Log: A Hope for the Future

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Hope for the Future event
Where: All over the city!
When: April 15th-April 19th
Warnings: Stealth Rock

It's finally time to reap the rewards you've earned from all that hard work collecting and returning the Hope orbs! Be careful walking the streets during the small earthquakes, but feel free to admire the scenery as your beautiful city reassembles its way back into its former glory.

There are new houses where the destroyed buildings once were, and they're perfect for a single person or pair of lovebirds. In addition, you'll find that the electricity to these new houses, and all other homes and shops in the city is restored. The food is better, the monsters are gone- hey, this city might be livable again!

To cap it all off, we've got a feast waiting for you on the 19th! Come one, come all, and enjoy all of your favorite foods, drinks, and party games. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together to celebrate something good, so get your party on and toss all your troubles away!

► This log covers April 14th-April 19th.
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I can try. [Jet replies in a soft, good-natured voice. He hadn't intended to join her, but had apparently lingered for just long enough to catch her attention and he takes the offered glass with a gentle hand.

He could be an imposing man - broad and a shade over six feet tall - but there's a definite steady kindness in his eyes as he looks at her and lifts the glass to his lips, taking a curious sip of the wine.

The taste is met with an expression that isn't displeasure, but falls along the line of uncertainty.]

It's different.

"Different" usually means it isn't to your taste. [ Dany tuts, but she's still smiling. ] And what are you drinking, then?

[ That is, what would he prefer? There's certainly a variety to choose from, here. ]

[Jet chuckles quietly, but he doesn't do her the insult of lying to her. Instead, he places the glass down and gently shrugs, smiling warmly in return.]

Nothing, yet. Hard enough to find pure water where I came from. [It's such a clumsy way to say it, but he quickly discovered that few people here had ever heard of the Zones.]

Never seen this much food and drink in one place.

Is it? [ She frowns slightly, considering what that might be like. ] I have people starving, have nearly done so myself, but when there has been water-... well, I assume it is safe to drink.

[ It hasn't killed her yet, anyway. ]

What is your world like, to be without?

[He takes the continued conversation as an invitation to sit, and does so, though he doesn't touch the wine again. She was more or less right - it's not an unpleasant taste, but it's not to his taste.]

If you're free, you live in the Zones, and life is hard. The desert outside Battery City. We get water, runners take it all over and leave it where people can take it, but I don't remember the last time it rained. [Despite his broad build, Jet's voice is soft and gentle.]

The city is a prison. They have luxuries, but no freedom.

So, you choose either luxury, or freedom? [ Interesting. In the cities within Slavery's Bay, the masters seem to have both. ] You must be more used to this climate, then. At least there has been some rain.

[ And there is water aplenty, thankfully. ]

[He grins crookedly - it's an easy, friendly look that warms his entire expression and takes a little of the harshness off the currently healing damage around his right eye.]

It's not too strange. Two suns, though, that's been wild.

[And hot. Very... hot.]

Easier here. Water and food's not hard to get to. Not being hunted, either.

I have never seen two suns. [ Maybe in her dreams, but only there. ] The heat is more intense than I have ever experienced.

[ Red Waste aside... ]

... Were you being hunted? By what?

By who. [The correction is gentle, but there's a certain force behind it. Being hunted by a 'what' might have been preferable.]

The city, it's under the control of a corporation. Better Living Industries. They're the ones keeping everyone and everything in line. They don't like that we got away, and that we're resisting them.

Of course. Resistance and rebellion is found in every world, it seems.

[ Just as she had helped to lead the slaves against their masters. Just as the Sons of the Harpy had opposed her. ]

I imagine there is no true "better living" beneath them.

[ It isn't a question. ]

They'd have you think so. Got a lot of people fooled. But it ain't living.

[Jet looks curiously again at the drink she first offered him, still sitting in the glass that he placed down when he joined her. He lifts it, considers a moment, then takes another small sip.

He could get used to it.]

Surviving ain't living.

Particularly if it isn't always surviving. [ Her tone and expression suggest, perhaps, that she knows this from experience. ] Those in power keep others beneath them alive so long as they are useful. I have seen the deaths of far too many who were innocent, yet slaves.

[ Dead in the fighting pits. Crucified on the road that Dany walked. Much more. ]

Sounds like where we come from has too much in common. [Jet tells her, a slight stiffness in his voice that isn't directed to her. Battery City and the Zones are hard enough, but hearing that it's the same across so many other worlds is just... hard to swallow.]

Seen a lot of people die who just wanted to be free. Only useful in the city if you follow all the rules.

As do scores of other worlds, I think.

[ Based on what she knows of them, what she's heard... ]

I am the Breaker of Chains. I will see no slaves kept while I have any power to stop it, whether that be in the Free Cities of my world or Hadriel in this one.

[ The strength of her conviction makes it sound like she has more power than she does, at least in Hadriel. What she lacks in power, though, she makes up for with fierce determination and an unyielding will. ]

Event Log: A Hope for the Future

Later | /dances in w/ cross-canon CR

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