sixthiterationlogs | what the hell....

WHO: Claire Bennet
WHERE: Around the inn
WHEN: Oct 14
OPEN TO: ALL
WARNINGS: will update if needed

Claire wasn't sure when exactly it had happened since it was just one of those things that she didn't always pay attention to. It wasn't that she took it for granted but it was just kind of natural to think that one's shadow would always be there in some way. Except for the fact that Claire's wasn't.

At first, she just sort of glanced down, didn't see it and continued on. At least for a couple steps until she was suddenly stopping dead and looking down again. Then she was turning in a circle trying to see if maybe she just wasn't looking in the right spot for it. When she didn't see it, she glanced at the sky and then back down again as the feeling of unease started to creep up her spine. It wasn't such a bad thing but it made her feel weird.

Maybe it was just her eyes playing tricks on her?

Glancing up when she spied someone walking close, she waved her hand to catch their attention before she pointed at the ground. "This is going to sound kind of crazy but can you see my shadow?"

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It's a weird as fuck question, honestly, and Jax is prepared to be a smart ass about it until he realizes that Claire's the one who asked. He still ends up being a smart ass, yeah, but less than he might normally. He likes Claire, after all, and he's not looking to offend someone who can stitch him up if he gets his ass kicked by this stupid village.

"Well, short stuff, it's not usually your shadow I'm looking at," he quips. Still, as asked, he looks down and scans the ground to see if her shadow is there. It's not.

"Looks like someone stole it."

Yes, it's a weird as fuck question and yet not the strangest question that Claire has ever asked someone before. Still, the shadow or lack thereof is the thing she is concerned about at the moment and she needs to be sure that she isn't just losing her mind.

"Haha." She replies somewhat dryly and might have had something else to say about his comment but then he is confirming that her shadow is gone which distracts her.

"What the hell? How is that..." She doesn't even know what to say but she looks down at his feet, spying his shadow. "Why is it just happening to me?"

No, she doesn't actually expect him to answer that but it's a good question.

"Can't tell you the hows and whys," Jax says. He shrugs a little because he's been in this damn place long enough to know it makes no fucking sense on an average day and losing a shadow is on this side of average. There's been other, weirder shit since he has showed up and he doesn't know why a shadow would appear or disappear.

"Don't think it's another eclipse, do you? That did some fucked up shit with shadows."

Claire sighs because she doesn't really expect him to tell her why her shadow has gone missing because she doesn't think that anyone who has been brought to the village against their will would know. She looks down again, looking troubled for a second before glancing up again.

"I don't know, I didn't see one happening but maybe it's some kind of effect of it. Or...I don't even know what would cause this sort of thing." It makes her wonder what else might happen to her. "God, this place is weird at times."

“The most fucked up place I’ve ever been,” Jax agrees. It takes the cake by a lot and that isn’t saying much; in his time here, he’s learned there’s people from both the past and the future. Amy had been able to travel through time, for Christ’s sake, and even that is less weird than the shit that happens in the village on a regular basis.

“So, if you lost your shadow, does that make you some kind of vampire? You gonna suck my blood at night?”

"Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you there and I've been to some weird places over the last few years." Really, being in Haurvatat had been a breeze compared to this place. As had the other places.

She is rubbing the back of her own neck when he asks suddenly about her sucking his blood which earns him a bit of a look that is immediately softened with a smirk. "Maybe? Are you scared now?"

"Look, if I'm getting my blood sucked, at least it's someone hot like you and not some mouth-breather like Dracula," Jax points out. "It can always be worse."

He doesn't think Claire's truly a vampire or shit like that but it's easier to joke about it than to try and guess at why she'd lost her goddamned shadow.

"You think anyone else has lost theirs?"

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