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[ragedagainst]

IC INBOX text / voicemail / emails / pack telepathy"Yeah. It's Ren. Text me. Don't fucking call, y'weirdo."Ren Rages-Against-The-Odds O'Neill Homid Fianna Ahroun - Adren (31) Guardian of the Sept of the Relentless Beat Alpha of the Never Say Die Pack Child of Coyote art credit code credit

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[whatsinfrontofyou]

I'm worried about Jordana.

[A beat.]

More worried about Jordana.

[ragedagainst]

Context would be helpful, sweetheart. Why? What's happening? Where is she?

[whatsinfrontofyou]

Mostly languishing under my bed. I think all of this captivity is getting to her.

[It doesn't seem healthy for anyone, but least of all a wolf.

To say nothing for, you know, all the rest of it.]

[ragedagainst]

[ Fuck. ]

Eating still? Bathing?

[whatsinfrontofyou]

She does slip out during the day. I assume she's eating then.

I haven't seen much of her human face recently.

[ragedagainst]

Shit. You're right. That's not good.

Did something else happen to her?

[whatsinfrontofyou]

I mean, beyond the obvious?

[Vex's tone is a little helpless. It's the worst Vex has seen Jordana. But their situation is the worst they've been in since—in some ways since Vex arrived.]

A lot of little things. [Vex pauses then, unsure how much she wants to express concern. It's one thing to worry about her with someone else close, someone who might have a better vantage. It's another to start spilling personal details. Of course, she doesn't know the details either.] She alluded to something with Dana, that she'd backed off. Someone died trying to escape the castle. And I have the feeling she left a conversation with Sweeney about his service to the Duchess less than satisfied.

Overall, I can't blame her for feeling helpless.

[ragedagainst]

Ah.

That explains a couple of things about her behaviour. [ Ren would never betray Jordana's confidence about her Harano and yet--] It hits her harder than normal people. Normal Garou even. She's like a raw nerve.

She's been campin' out in my cell on an evening. I didn't say nothing about it but, I'll see if she needs somethin' doing about it.

[whatsinfrontofyou]

[Vex makes a sound of understanding. She knows something about it, in part because of her time as a Gurahl.]

I can hardly blame her. With everything that's happening...

Gods, we all deserve a break.

I'll try to keep giving her a place she can feel safe.

[ragedagainst]

All I can ask is that you're as patient with her as y'can be, love. It's no small thing, what Jordana goes through.

[whatsinfrontofyou]

At least for the time being, patience is easy to give. It might be one of the few things I can give.

[ragedagainst]

Y'give more than you know by just givin' her the time to sort herself out.

[whatsinfrontofyou]

The gods know she beats herself up enough for asking.

Sorry to bring this to you, but it feels like things are getting too big for just me.

[ragedagainst]

No--

Y'did the right thing, love. I know it's shit havin' to take this outside of her confidences. It's weird for me too, seein' her in this state. When I knew her best, I was still a kid, I never realised she suffered like this.

It's a common thing with members of my family [ Tribe ]. We're more prone to it than most. I hate to see Jordana goin' through it alone.

[whatsinfrontofyou]

[It's a sign of the seriousness that Vex doesn't try to make some kind of a quip or sarcastic remark to avoid the seriousness of the topic.

Her normal defenses feel too flippant now.]

I wish there was more I could do—that we could do. If this was something getting drunk and picking a bar fight could fix, I'd already be on the other side of it.

[But it's not that easy, is it?]

Thank you for listening, and being such a good friend to her.