[MINGLE] One-Man Show

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Inari Shrine and elsewhere
WHEN: 25 January 2019 through ?
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[scathefires]

Jason isn't used to being on the receiving end of affectionate touch - he's never had enough of it to find it familiar, but even though he doesn't know Billy well, Jason doesn't shy away from the hug. It's exactly what he needs, exactly what he's spent so much of his life convincing himself he doesn't need, and he returns the gesture without hesitation.

He's not sure he'd agree with the assessment that he deserved better - he wanted better, he wanted to mean as much to Bruce as Bruce meant to him, and that clearly is never going to happen. Jason knows this, but can't seem to move past it.

"'SOK," he says, even though they all know it's not. "I mean - I can't do anything about it here. I can't do anything until I get back home." He shakes his head, mouth pressed into an unhappy, thin line. "I'm sorry you guys had to see that. I hate these assholes so much."

[skyward_eyes]

"What's a little death between colleagues?" Nida shrugs off. He's not trying to make light of it, not really, it's just... Well, after everything he saw, it's not like he cares so much. Better to focus on someone else. On his new team, because clearly these two aren't going to get back on their own very well.

At least, Nida notes mostly to himself, he once had people who cared about him. This guy clearly lacked even that.

"I don't suppose there is any chance that asshole was still in the building when it exploded?"

Small cosmic favors maybe?

[demiurgency]

"You don't have anything to apologize for," Billy assures him, an echo of Nida's words. "I'm sorry you had to watch it. I don't know what the Observers are trying to get out of this, but it's really messed up." To say the least.

Once he's sure Jason's at least got himself mostly composed, Billy takes his hand away, wrapping his arms around himself. At least he's wearing his coat, but wherever they are, it's cold. "I don't know how we're gonna get home, but we should at least try and get back to the village. Do you guys have any idea where we are?"

[scathefires]

"No," he says to Nida's question, "unless I got really lucky with the last thing I did in Gotham before I got dragged to Wonderland, the Joker's still alive." Jason frowns. Why is it that this one piece of human trash is so indestructible? Why does he keep being allowed to hurt and kill people who don't deserve it while he never pays a real price for it? "Prob'ly too much to hope for."

Jason rubs a hand over his face, takes a deep breath, and sighs it out. "I should've expected something like this. Something similar happened at the last place I was in - somehow I got turned into a sixteen-year-old again, thought I'd just come back from being dead. Didn't remember anything about my life after that happened." He folds his arms over his chest and shakes his head. "Must just be one of those things that sadists find entertaining."

As for the question of where they are ... Jason shakes his head again. "I've never been out this far from the village," he says, though now he wishes he had ventured out more. He glances at his wrist device for the time, shades his eyes with his hand as he scans the area, checking the direction of the sun. "Unless I'm real turned around," he says, pointing, "north is that way."

[skyward_eyes]

"You're probably better oriented than me. Time's passed enough that I can't figure it out from the sun alone," Nida sighs, but mostly his attention is on Jason. He's... he's still too fucked up to not want to focus on someone else and their problems.

"This isn't the first strange place like this you've been? Fuck. Maybe the universe just hates us. A lot."

More than he would really appreciate doing the math on actually.

[demiurgency]

"Is north the way we're supposed to go? I'm not even sure where we've ended up. Hang on, I'm gonna call Tommy back, he's been leaving me a ton of messages that didn't get through," Billy answers, stepping away from both of them just a few feet. "Don't go anywhere yet."

He doesn't want to leave Jason or Billy entirely, not sure what either of them will do, but they need more information. They need to figure out how to get home, and he...really needs to hear his brother's voice, right about now. He'll talk to Tommy, see if he can get some info on where exactly they've ended up and how to get back to the village, and then...no, there's no and then. One step at a time. That's all they can do. That's all he can focus on, just now.