( it's truly amazing how a small gesture like this can smooth her entire world. vi has a similar power, all she has to do is caress her cheek similar to this, and the deadly tornado magically evaporates. and just like silco did before, jinx leans into his touch -- like a crazed cat that spontaneously want pets from their owner after nipping them for twenty minutes.

she hears his question and she will definitely answer him, but his daughter just needs a few seconds. a few seconds to bathe into this new reality that her father is alive again and to erase that god awful night from her memory. with her eyes shut, jinx smiles warmly with a gentle sigh blowing out of her nostrils. )

Aldrip. ( she answers simply. and now it's time to test how much she's been paying attention to the locals and the chosen. )

— Something bigger than the Gods brought us here. Maybe. They're ropin' everyone from different realms and timelines to be here. This whole country is meant to be a prison. ... Sorta. But we're all criminals and got sentenced to somethin'.

( a brief pause to let her father sink the information in while nuzzling more into his hands. )

I'm being charged with murder and illegal trading. There oughta be a scroll on ya with your crime somewhere. Everyone's got one and it's magical too. You can't rip it apart or burn it. No one here knows what's happenin' really so... we're just living and waiting.