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[ It probably isn't safe to let herself get this close to someone again.

Scratch that: she knows it isn't safe to let herself get this close to someone again. That has become the constant in Asgard for her - everyone else leaves, but she stays. Most of the time, Jade doesn't care. Knowing them for a little while is better than having never known them at all, and just because those friendships are lost doesn't mean that they're meaningless.

Other times, though, the loss of it still stings. Especially now, as she and Ellie sneak through the carnival in Hel's district. It's night, past curfew, but no one in the city patrol bothers to actually check this place, and Jade knows everyone in the guard personally, anyway. It's a perk that comes with being one of the most tenured travelers in the city. ]

Have you ever been to the top of one of these things?

[ She's pausing next to the ferris wheel, touching her hand on the rusted metal as she glances up. Jade is oddly pensive, but there's a stubborn set to her shoulders, as if she refuses to admit it even about herself. ]

Threaded | Flat

Never.

[It's been tough, all this time -- first without Tess, and then without Riley, and finally without Joel. Ellie has been silent about the losses other than one particularly embarassing time Jade caught her breaking all the plates in her house on the kitchen floor.

With time, Ellie's grown more disdainful of the concept of the watch, if not the people behind it. Martial law grates on her, but she knows how neccessary it is, so she doesn't complain except in scowls and quiet skirting of the rules, making a game of getting away with bullshit.

Ellie follows along behind Jade, hands in her pockets as she looks all the way to the top of the wheel. A slow smile spreads across her face, and she immediately begins climbing. The way it all fits together makes it easy, so long as she doesn't look down.]

Damn shame we can't turn it on. The patrols could turn a blind eye to that. Odin would shit himself.

[She holds a hand down to help Jade up.]