Trouble Brewing [Open Guard HQ Post]

[synthedick]

Who: OPEN - anyone visiting the Guard HQ throughout May
What: This is an open post for the Guard HQ - feel free to tag Nick here, make your own top-levels, etc. for whatever your characters might be doing there! They don't even have to be in the Guard, so long as you can come up for a reason for them to be in the area. Passing by, seeing some folks on patrol, seeking help during an event, whatever works!
Where: Guard Headquarters
When: Throughout May
Warnings: TBA


With all the gods returned, there are new notices on the door, as well as on the wall Nick has designated as the bulletin board for the Guardsmen:

Sorrow says we'll be moving soon. Fear will need the energy to do it. You know what that means.

An ominous warning, but one the Guard knows well -- whatever it is Fear does or brings in, it's their job to keep the peace as best they can. Sometimes it's monsters, sometimes it's paranoia, and sometimes, it's something entirely unexpected.

Comments

[braveoff]

[ The scolding is deserved, Drake knows that. But he also picks up on the worry before it's verbalized, and somehow that makes him feel worse. Of course Nick would have understood -- he's a good guy, he at least deserved a text. ]

Not really. I mean, physically I'm fine, I should have called you about needing some time.

[ Deep breath. Rip it off. Nick will get it, probably more than Henry will considering he's been over to their place before, he knows what they meant to each other. ]

Ephemera's gone. I know sometimes we were scheduled together, but I want to pick up his other shifts if I can.

[synthedick]

[Nick's eyes never leave Drake during his explanation; as someone who has had important people ripped from him before -- both here and back home -- he does get it. That kind of hurt wears on a person in a way that doesn't leave physical tells, and doesn't just go away, not even an entire lifetime later.]

I'm sorry.

[There is nothing more important to express than that, first and foremost.]

You sure you don't want someone else taking his shifts? I can move the schedule around, find some extra hands.