socialcapital | [ JACKSON HEART ]

[ JACKSON HEART ]

[ THIS HEART WILL HAVE CWS FOR:

- CANON-TYPICAL VIOLENCE
- SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR CANON-TYPICAL VIOLENCE
- CHILD ABUSE
- SLAVERY
- DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE ]

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[god this is annoying. if you were adult you, you'd already be over there grabbing all the cash you could get your hands on!111]

So unfortunate. I wonder if perhaps one of his associates oughta check on him and all the shit he was counting.

He was mostly very concerned you were about to follow up 'I killed your owner' with 'so now you belong to me' but since that doesn't seem to be happening he relaxes a little bit.

"As it happens, I think we were just about to close for the day due to selling the last of our stock."

Throws a sheet over the huge amount of unsold teacups...

There's just one last thing...

He freezes in his absolute most forced casual pose.

"Oh yeah?"

I need a little something for my employer. Proof that I did the job. And that you're still alive.

"I'm not sure I can give you anything you wouldn't also be able to take off a corpse... but um, hang on."

He ducks back behind the booth to do the bronze age equivalent of emptying the cash register first. Priorities.

[priorities. he can wait.]

After he's cleared out the cash he just. Leaves the teapots there.

"Okay, so he had something with his valuables..."

NOW. It is time to scurry to where the merchant keeps his money.

[following along~]

He's clearly going to take all that money too, but first things first. He rifles one-handed through a bunch of papers, then hands one over.

It's a contract, basically? Or like... proof of debt ownership? 'I am owed xyz amount of money to be repaid by this person in labor' and all the associated clauses.

"He wouldn't give this up if he could help it at all. So... does this work?"

[is there a name on it?]

It has the merchant's name, which is Honest Chiu. Firuz's part of the agreement just has like. An X. Because when it was signed he was six and very hurt.

Kinda fucked that it counted as valid but that's the age of sorrows for ya.

[that's the Age of Sorrows for ya. Sparrow will take it and tear it in half before folding up both halves to shove in a pocket]

This'll work. You got friends in high places, kid. Don't fuck it up.

[Sparrow OUT]

"Thank you!!!"

He sounds Really Genuinely Grateful, thank goodness you're escaping before he can imprint on you.

You got the contract!

[Sparrow isn't a pretty man with blue eyes so he figures he's safe from being imprinted on

BACK TO THE GATE he'll shove the flowers and contract into the teapot and then hold it up to the lock]

Now it glows VERY brightly and clicks open.

[testing it again. is any more mandatory interaction required,,,]

No interaction required, it swings open easily.

[FREEDOM]

He steps through into... the same garden, minus ghosts, with a normal sky overhead, a normal amount of gardening having been done (at least one leaf has fallen on the path and not been swept up) and one path out instead of four.

Jackson is sitting at a table here looking like he has a bad hangover or like he is very embarrassed.

"There aren't any more weird roleplays to do, promise. You can just head straight on out."

[GOOD!!! HE SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED!!!!!!!]

Prove it.

"What do you mean, prove it? There's one path, you go out that way."

[follows path. suspiciously.]

He just wakes up. No tricks!!

[FREEDOM FOR REAL THIS TIME]

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