ELOISE
Eloise had learned (mostly) when to brush off Jack's knee-jerk sarcasm and when to be properly cowed by it. Instead of flinching, she merely smirked cooley as they walked, accepting the offered canteen with a wordless thank you. It couldn't all be like that of course, mental communication from she to him lest those around begin to make assumptions about how close the pair must be for Jack to know Eloise so well. Even if they were sleeping together as the crew assumed, it would be too much of a stretch for him to have suddenly started giving a shit about her with that level of intimacy.
"I asked him a few weeks ago if he would and he said no then too." Eloise rolled her shoulders in a shrug, blandly annoyed that the ash was covering so much of the sun. "I think were he not on your crew he might have." But not necessarily because he lacked purpose. There was no way it would be safe for any of them to outrank Jack.
"So why do we like Remi more than the tall one?" Eloise asked, her question tactfully said. She wasn't just looking to pick Jack's brain on politics here, it was much more strategic than that: What has Remi done, that you favoured him? Or equally, what has Sunjata done (or not) that you don't?
"I asked him a few weeks ago if he would and he said no then too." Eloise rolled her shoulders in a shrug, blandly annoyed that the ash was covering so much of the sun. "I think were he not on your crew he might have." But not necessarily because he lacked purpose. There was no way it would be safe for any of them to outrank Jack.
"So why do we like Remi more than the tall one?" Eloise asked, her question tactfully said. She wasn't just looking to pick Jack's brain on politics here, it was much more strategic than that: What has Remi done, that you favoured him? Or equally, what has Sunjata done (or not) that you don't?
but hungry dogs are never loyal
