( closed ) in you I can trust, it's all about us

[feisticuffs]

🧙 WHO: Jade & Eleven
⚔️️ WHAT: Reuniting!
🕒 WHEN: Several days after their arrival.
🗺️ WHERE: The Red Spring.
⚠️ WARNINGS: None!

[While she has made herself comfortable at the hotel designated for recent arrivals in Camelot, Jade has found herself drawn back towards the Red Spring more than once since the day she and her familiar had found themselves here. Though Camelot is certainly beautiful, so many years of constant travel and searching have made her feel a little more at ease within the smaller resort town, and there have been plenty of odd jobs people have needed done to keep herself occupied with. If she were being completely honest with herself, she might have been more open about the fact that she was holding out to see another familiar face arrive from the White Cliffs— any familiar face would do, at this point, so long as it was a friendly one, but voicing such a desire aloud seemed like asking for trouble. If she allowed herself that, it most certainly wouldn't come true.

Her first two visits to the town during the past week hadn't yielded much in the way of results, and she almost dare not hope that today will be any different. Regardless, there is work to be done, and she's determined to come here and ask after odd jobs and other news until the locals tell her definitively that there haven't been any new faces recently.

It's late morning when she arrives, heading towards one of the inns with long strides, having become friendly with the proprietress during her last two visits. Her familiar, Bella, bobs along behind her, wings beating rhythmically as she keeps herself afloat, but Jade gives pause as she hears a sudden change in that rhythm, a flurry of flapping as Bella changes direction and breaks away from her partner. She attempts to gain Jade's attention with a huffy noise of protest, at which point Jade slows her step and turns on her heel.]

What is it? Really, there are better ways to—

[Upon turning, she sees that Bella has flown to investigate something hanging from one of the trees hanging just outside of the inn. It looks like— a boot? No, not a lone boot, but one that decidedly has someone's foot still inside it, and appears to be attached to someone hidden up in the boughs.

She narrows her gaze, curious as she approaches the tree itself, cueing Bella to flit back and hover behind her shoulder.]

There's someone up there, hmm...?