[OPEN] So what's on your mind?

[lahire]

Who: Jack La Hire and You
What: Settling into yet another new home
When: Early November
Warning(s): In headers as needed

1. There's a piece of me that knows his name [The Oak and Iron]
There is a new face in town. Perhaps you might recognize him from your time in the Black Stag Casino. Perhaps you just have an eye for newcomers. Either way, here he is, sitting at a table alone with a meal he's barely touched, watching everything going on around him with the haunted eyes of a prisoner.


2. Every once in a while, he'll show his face [Out and About Town]
It has been decades since Jack has been allowed outside. While he's not literally kissing the grass in gratitude, he is lying on his ground, under a tree, staring up at the branches blankly with not a moment's care for how dirty his clothes (his casino dealer uniform) might be getting. Or for the fact that it is starting to rain.


3. And when he does I'll have something to say [Aces Wildcard]
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[lahire]

"No, I mean. Why are you coming inside with me? I thought you were staying for a bit longer."

[abhorrently]

"I've been out for a while. I'd stay out here until my body went numb, but I can't afford to get sick at present, so I can't run the risk. This is as good an excuse as any to go back in."

[lahire]

"Oh. Good. As long as you are not merely feeling obligated to me somehow. I have no means to reciprocate kindness, you realize." Everything is a debt owed, on some level.

[abhorrently]

"Why would I feel obligated? I'm not doing anything that I don't want to. I'm not angling for reciprocation from someone who's barely set foot on this isle."

[lahire]

"Most people would, in my experience. Leverage is powerful. Anything can have a value, when bartered or wagered."

He isn't upset, he's just reciting facts, here.

[abhorrently]

"Can, but does that mean it always will? Must it always? Believe me, if I was looking to stack up a debt owed, I'd be far more tasteful about it."

[lahire]

"Alright, then. Tell me how you would do it, so I recognize it when it comes."

When, not if.