"Ah, there is that," Jigano grinned sheepishly at the correction, agreeing whole-heartedly with it. "Usually I'm better at dodging, but clearly I have more practicing to do." He felt Loren's uncertainty, and it piqued both interest and concern for his friend, tasting the self-destructive edge of that hesitation and finding it a bitter draught.
Supposition and guesses wouldn't get him anywhere though, and so he asked his question outright. At least he wasn't surprised by the answer when it came, nodding gravely at hearing that Loren's life was lacking the spark that made it worth living with Abasi's passing still so recent. "Drinking, whoring, and brawling?" he double-checked, putting Loren's fine words into crasser terms, but without any judgment behind them. "Adam could probably hook you up with some, hm, substances of questionable provenance and varying levels of stimulation or numbness, depending on what you're going for." Jigano had turned the offer down for himself, but it sounded like the sort of thing Loren might want to take advantage of in his mourning, and if Adam was around to use his experience to keep things from going off the rails, well, maybe it would give the summoner a brief reprieve from his pain.
Supposition and guesses wouldn't get him anywhere though, and so he asked his question outright. At least he wasn't surprised by the answer when it came, nodding gravely at hearing that Loren's life was lacking the spark that made it worth living with Abasi's passing still so recent. "Drinking, whoring, and brawling?" he double-checked, putting Loren's fine words into crasser terms, but without any judgment behind them. "Adam could probably hook you up with some, hm, substances of questionable provenance and varying levels of stimulation or numbness, depending on what you're going for." Jigano had turned the offer down for himself, but it sounded like the sort of thing Loren might want to take advantage of in his mourning, and if Adam was around to use his experience to keep things from going off the rails, well, maybe it would give the summoner a brief reprieve from his pain.
