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Jenny followed the others out, supporting Ed as well as she could. Hopefully he could manage to walk without making his poor state too noticeable; it could come off as suspicious. Noticing Lucid and Ashton holding hands, she whispered to him. ”They’re somehow moving even faster than we did.”

“Ed?” Jenny tapped him on the shoulder. He really was engrossed in his work. She wished that she could understand what he was doing. ”We’re going to that diner now.”

“Yep!” Jenny was still rather confused by Jace and Terrance’s interaction. Had Jace been threatening to kill Terrance if he didn’t eat? It was understandable that Terrance had reacted so aggressively. Even if you didn’t have severe trust issues like he did, you probably wouldn’t react positively, or even civilly, to someone who held a knife to your throat like that. She offered to hand to Ed to help him stand up. @Weaver of Lies

Jenny looked up to see that Jace was holding his dagger to Terrance’s throat and Terrance was holding his weapon to Jace’s chest. What the heck had happened for everything to somehow escalate this quickly? ”Guys?!” @RoyalBeeMage

“Do you wanna go get some food?” Jenny couldn’t tell if he was mad at her or not for bothering him. Hopefully he wasn’t.

“I’m hungry!” Jenny’s stomach growled. Being maybe-dead didn’t feel like it impacted her appetite, at least. Ed had said he was hungry earlier, but didn’t seem to notice what Jace had said. She elbowed him. ”Do you wanna go get some food?”

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Jenny pulled out her ruby to see if there were any dead things nearby she could reanimate. When she saw its glow, her heart sank again. She’d rendered it useless now. She took out Sword and started tossing it in the air instead, practicing making it spin while she waited for Ed to finish whatever he was doing.

Hmm. Jenny tried squinting at the pile of gears and unfocusing her eyes a bit to see if that could help her figure out what it was. She didn’t want to interrupt Ed again by asking what he was making. It wasn’t particularly easy to hold herself back from that.

Jenny grabbed Timothy, then thought at Gift. Do you know what Ed’s making? She didn’t have any idea what his project was, but she probably just wasn’t smart enough with that stuff to understand. It looked very geary.

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Ashton didn’t seem to be very talkative. Jenny didn’t blame her for not wanting to share too much about herself with strangers. She decided not to press further for personal details. ”Please let me know if you have any questions about demigod stuff.” Jenny made her best attempt at a reassuring smile, then looked over at Ed, trying to see what he was making. @Weaver of Lies @Wierdo

Did that mean Ashton knew she was a demigod? That would make things easier. It was hard news to break, sometimes. ”Have you been on your own for a while?”

“Great!” Jenny paused. ”Do you know what you are?” She shot a glance at Lucid, hoping he’d help her explain things if Ashton wasn’t familiar with demigod stuff. @Wierdo

“Nice to meet you, Ashton!” Jenny thought for a moment. ”Do you like tinkering with stuff and making really cool inventiony things?” If Ashton was actually a demigod, then it’d be nice to know whose kid she was. Hephaestus seemed like a good guess, based on what little she knew of her so far. Her line of questioning sounded rather awkward, but it wasn’t like anything else Jenny could say would be any less awkward.

Jenny eventually got bored of Timothy, so she carefully placed him in his little spot made by Aaron with a final goodbye pat on his head. She looked around, her eyes landing on the new girl. She should probably get to know her a bit better. ”Hello! What’s your name?” @Anguished_One @Wierdo

That probably meant that Ed liked it. Her gift had been successful. ”You’re welcome!” Jenny then went back to quietly messing with Timothy, wanting to let Ed do whatever he’d been doing without her distracting him.

Jenny held up a smoothly carved, thin, and slightly bent stick. ”I know you like pasta, so I made you a pasta!” She was grinning, incredibly proud of what she’d created. It was nowhere near what Ed could do, but she still was quite pleased.

Jenny waited for a moment longer, impatiently squirming. Ed didn’t look like he was going to stop tinkering soon, so she eventually decided to tap him on the shoulder to get his attention.

Jenny finished her masterpiece and oriented herself to how she’d been sitting before. She hid it behind her back and waited for Ed to finish whatever he was doing. Hopefully he’d like what she made.

Now that Ed was distracted, Jenny turned away, retrieved her branch, and unsheathed Sword. She started whittling away at it, sticking her tongue out of the side of her mouth in focus. She wasn’t as good as Ed at this, but her plan wasn’t very complicated.

Jenny grinned stupidly. ”I love you too.” She snapped off a particularly thick part of a branch and stuffed it in her bag, Timothy nearly tumbling off her head in the process. She decided to leave the dog in her lap instead for the time being. She couldn’t risk him getting broken.

Jenny eventually regained her composure and uncurled from her ball, feeling rather embarrassed. No one else seemed to have been freaked out by the fall. Well, no one else had screamed, at least. She couldn’t discern much more beyond that. She started to mess with Timothy some more, at one point balancing it on top of her head. @Weaver of Lies