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[green_and_white]

Jasmine isn't happy.

She wasn't happy when Eight-Hour fire-moved her to the fringes of civilization.

She was, if anything, less happy when she discovered she had to walk four hours just to get within reach of Downside public transport, and that the subsequent ride home took another four hours

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[green_and_white]

"Ah--"

Jazz raises a finger, gently chiding.

"Would that be you forbidding her from a course of action she suggested? Didn't you claim not to do that?"

[hero_farmboy]

"I'm fickle," he snaps. "Now leave."

[downsidedarling]

Anna grins.

"That's my Clark."

[green_and_white]

"Oh, how delightful," she says sarcastically.

"I said I would refrain from harming innocents if you delivered her to me. Perhaps I ought to have specified more clearly the circumstances of the delivery. A conversation at arm's length with you as overbearing chaperon does not, as they say, cut it."

[hero_farmboy]

"That's your problem for not making that clear, isn't it? She's here. You talked. You got shot down. We're done."

[green_and_white]

"Shot down?"

Jazz raises a delicate eyebrow.

"Did she not just suggest acquiescence?"

[downsidedarling]

"Yeah, I did. Mostly as a joke, but if it's the only way to get you to go the fuck home--"

Anna shrugs.

"It ain't, though. Clark's right about that. We can take you back ourselves."

[hero_farmboy]

"I didn't say by her," Clark corrects cooly and then glances at Anna. "Is that what we're doing, then?"

[downsidedarling]

Show solidarity before the enemy.

"Yes."

--But what will they do when she comes back?

Anna doesn't know.

[green_and_white]

"You are of no consequence," Jazz tells Clark irritably, contrary to all evidence.

[hero_farmboy]

"Yeah, you keep telling yourself that," Clark snorts before turning his attention mostly to Anna.

"Okay, what do we do?"

[downsidedarling]

"Find a door, want it to lead Downside, open it and shove her through. That's pretty much it."

[hero_farmboy]

"I think I can handle that." Clark looks back at Jasmine. "I don't suppose I can count on you to cooperate?"

[downsidedarling]

"About as well as you can count on pigs to fly," Anna interjects.

[green_and_white]

Jazz inclines her head coldly in Anna's direction.

"Indeed."

[hero_farmboy]

Clark rolls his eyes and again, in a flash, has Jasmine by the wrist.

"It's not like you don't already know I can make you. Cooperating just makes things easier."