Jo hasn't gone far from her table, or her seat. (Or Thorfinn.) The better part of ten or fifteen feet. To the crates, and the weapons, both on the table and still in the boxes. The front, where they are displayed.
Where she writes and listens. Hasn't turned herself toward anything more than the exact same as everyone has found her in this room every single day before this. Early mornings, and middays, and late nights. Whenever things strike, and whenever there are updates. Of which this counts among the biggest so far. Which is, she's pretty sure, why no one actually comments on it. No one needs to. They know what she's doing, and what she's been doing for weeks.
Frank even looks to her, to make sure she's done before approaching on it all.
She doesn't need notes to point to how fast 'for the community, for all of us' becomes 'only these weapons, for only these certain people,' which immediately spiderweb cracks in the first denials, and disagreements. Justifications for 'only us' and 'only we know.' She doesn't say anything. Some notes, and some acknowledgements, don't need writing. Especially not in a book that is expressly and absolutely for the community, and not for herself alone, and has been for weeks. Instead of only for a few minutes.
She does meet Kol's eyes, and there's a flicker there in her own. Because she looks, and maybe because he looks to her before going. Without a single slander for her choice, that she thinks he might understand.
It's not emotion, in that flicker in her eyes. More a recognition that refuses resignation. They don't get to win. Not by any inch anywhere. Not even if no one in this room gets it.
no subject
To the crates, and the weapons, both on the table and still in the boxes. The front, where they are displayed.
Where she writes and listens. Hasn't turned herself toward anything more than the exact same as everyone has found her in this room every single day before this. Early mornings, and middays, and late nights. Whenever things strike, and whenever there are updates. Of which this counts among the biggest so far. Which is, she's pretty sure, why no one actually comments on it. No one needs to. They know what she's doing, and what she's been doing for weeks.
Frank even looks to her, to make sure she's done before approaching on it all.
She doesn't need notes to point to how fast 'for the community, for all of us' becomes 'only these weapons, for only these certain people,' which immediately spiderweb cracks in the first denials, and disagreements. Justifications for 'only us' and 'only we know.' She doesn't say anything. Some notes, and some acknowledgements, don't need writing. Especially not in a book that is expressly and absolutely for the community, and not for herself alone, and has been for weeks. Instead of only for a few minutes.
She does meet Kol's eyes, and there's a flicker there in her own.
Because she looks, and maybe because he looks to her before going.
Without a single slander for her choice, that she thinks he might understand.
It's not emotion, in that flicker in her eyes. More a recognition that refuses resignation.
They don't get to win. Not by any inch anywhere. Not even if no one in this room gets it.