Jude
Jude has never heard of myrthroot, but he's not surprised by that. His parents had only ever sought to educate him on medicinal and poisonous plants, and certainly nothing potentially addictive. When she turns and disappears into a crevice he hesitates, uncertain. Paige had always been Edmund's friend, which is not an unfamiliar experience for Jude who has a whole one friend currently as a young adult, and she'd just been holding a knife to his neck...
Startling into motion when she calls back for him to hurry up, he does so without thinking it through any further. Following is an easy thing to do when he's a slip of a thing himself, finding no issue with the otherwise claustrophobic passageway. "Um...can't I have both?" He doesn't want to press the issue when she's going to offer him the goods so to speak, but he'd come here with the intent of purchasing something particular, and part of the self-destructive process was knowing it was illegal. Following in the wake of her torchlight, Jude wrings his hands in front of himself. This isn't how he saw all this going down, but he can't exactly back out now.
Startling into motion when she calls back for him to hurry up, he does so without thinking it through any further. Following is an easy thing to do when he's a slip of a thing himself, finding no issue with the otherwise claustrophobic passageway. "Um...can't I have both?" He doesn't want to press the issue when she's going to offer him the goods so to speak, but he'd come here with the intent of purchasing something particular, and part of the self-destructive process was knowing it was illegal. Following in the wake of her torchlight, Jude wrings his hands in front of himself. This isn't how he saw all this going down, but he can't exactly back out now.
stop trying to keep this alive
you're pointing at stars in the sky that already died
you're pointing at stars in the sky that already died
