Ty Solomon (shadowbadge) wrote in shadows_rpg, @ 2022-05-11 20:29:00 |
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Entry tags: | #june 2018, ty, ty x vex, vex |
Who: Ty & Vex
Where: Ludlow
When: Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday 6/27
Status: in progress
Vex kind of wanted to live at the carnival these days, bring a sleeping bag and sleep in the funhouse of the mirror room. To say he was fascinated by the place was an understatement. He loved it. There was something very wrong with it but that just made him like it more, like it was a mystery that could be cracked if he just stared long enough. He'd spent hours there every day so far and he was planning on going back tonight, almost certain Lem would want to go with him as she was every bit as excited about it as he was. It honestly seemed like everyone was addicted to the place, it was always full which just made him want to sneak in there at night when everything was supposed to be closed.
He wasn't paying a lot of attention to the others at the moment but when the doorbell rang, he instantly knew who it was. Deputy Ty Solomon. He hadn't talked to the man much on the other side, but he knew he'd run things so he could only guess why he was there. They all wanted to know about each other's new gifts and Vex had been meaning to reach out to more people but the carnival had his full attention this week. He got up from the couch where he'd been lounging after a good meal, and moseyed to the front door to swing it open. "Kinda been expecting you," he said, glad to see Ty wasn't in full uniform. "Kinda not. Come on in."
Ty had woken up with the inexplicable urge to go back to the carnival himself, in spite of what had happened in the tunnel. It was a weird feeling, since he knew he ought to want to avoid that place like the plague. He couldn’t indulge it anyway, he had a job now, so he went and did that job. It was a fairly easy day at the vet’s office, though Ty was sure that wouldn’t always be the case, especially as word got around more that there was a proper vet in town now. In the moments he had to spare to think, he’d decided to go see Vex once he got off. It was past time he talked to some of the others about what might be happening to them, and he had some questions about werewolves he was going to have to be subtle about.
Vex’s lack of surprise when he answered the door didn’t really surprise Ty either. He’d been relieved to feel that the man was at home instead of wandering around somewhere else to be tracked down. Ty could’ve done so, but this was much less awkward. He gave Vex a wan smile as he stepped inside the house, tossing a glance around. It was a weird mishmash of old lady decor and mild vandalism and random clutter, which seemed perfect for what he knew of Vex. “Thanks,” he said. “And yeah I figured ... guess we’re all fucked with being sneaky with each other. No group surprise parties for us.” Ty chuckled faintly.
"Afraid not," Vex replied jovially as he waltzed back into the house, this time heading for the kitchen and obviously expecting Ty to follow. "You want coffee? Vodka? Cake?" he asked as he walked and looked around to try to spot his phone wherever he'd ditched it unceremoniously earlier. "You don't have to pick one, they all go great together." There it was, his phone, near-hidden behind the pile of takeout containers. It was time to clean this kitchen, that was for sure. It had mercifully been cleaner when Miriam came to visit or she probably would have had a conniption; or maybe not, she might be a fancy Overlook lady but she'd spent months in the muck with the rest of them.
Ty had been inside a lot of people’s homes in the line of duty, and he felt almost immune to seeing mess. He couldn’t tolerate it in his own living environment -- Ty’s sense of cleanliness had suffered a lot Over There -- but he could spend some unbothered time in it when had a purpose for being there. At the moment he just felt mildly amused at watching Vex sift through some trash to find his phone. “Just coffee, I think,” he answered, deciding to trust that they had clean mugs somewhere. “I’ve got dinner plans later, don’t want to spoil my appetite. How’ve you been holding up, being back and all?” They hadn’t spoken since all of them had returned, though Ty knew that was mostly his doing, since he skipped town to get married and take a long road trip back.
Vex slipped his phone in his pocket and went to fill the coffee machine of water, humming in thought. "You know, I had this big crisis of faith after I came home. Dark times, lots of self doubt. But now? I'm over it. Things are good again, I miss my big wolf but he's coming to visit me tonight, I think. Not as a big wolf. Might get a big dog to make up for that. Like one of those huge bear-hunter types, you know?" He turned on the machine when everything was set and turned to face Ty again, giving him a toothy grin, deciding he'd done enough rambling for now. "What about you? I heard you got married."
A little chill ran up Ty’s spine as Vex mentioned his big wolf. Carson was coming here tonight? Part of him wanted to pounce on that and start asking those pointed werewolf questions, but Ty held back for now. They were obviously still close, Ty didn’t want to jeopardize Vex’s trust. It was definitely better that he’d come alone, he realized that fully now that he was here. “Yeah, I did,” Ty answered as he found a spot to lean against the counter. He couldn’t help but smile warmly about it, as always. “Me and Jared, we went to Texas and got married -- which sounds like a bad idea for two queer guys, but his whole family’s there. It was amazing, really. Then we rented an RV and road tripped home.” None of that had anything to do with his mental state though, so Ty added, “It’s been a tough adjustment, being back, but ... things are getting better for me too.”
"Did you not remember shit when you first came back?" Vex asked. "I think that was a common theme. I didn't even know my damn name, that was fun. I wonder how we even got back, do you remember anything other than just showing up over here?" If anyone could remember anything about it there might be answers but Vex had a feeling that this too would remain a mystery like everything else. He was just glad that Lem hadn't run away, that nobody had declared him dead, that he hadn't come home to an empty house - or no house at all.
Ty nodded at first, because he’d definitely come back empty-headed when it came to anything about himself, then shook his head at Vex’s last question. “Yeah, I was totally lost and confused first thing. It took a few days for it to all come back to me,” he said. “But nothin’ about how we got home. I just ... fell asleep over there and woke up here in the woods.” Ty paused, but not for long. Since they were asking each other the direct questions, he might as well get to it. “Have you noticed anything different about yourself since you got back? Like something you can do now that you weren’t able to do before?” His instinct was that Vex was going to say yes, but Ty was keeping in mind that this guy was Weird, so he expected it to be kind of off the wall.
"There it is," Vex said, peering one eye and waving a finger at Ty. "I was waiting for that. But yeah, you were one of the first to go, right? The rest of us - people started going missing, we didn't know if you got eaten or what." He huffed a little laugh, as if that was funny, then got back to the matter at hand. "I knew you were here about that, I think we're all getting side effects. Me? I used to get visions, thought I was just crazy but then it turned out I wasn't. Or, well, the visions were real whether I'm crazy or not. After I got back they got stronger and I can summon them now, walk through them, get more details. How about you? What did you come back with?"
He quirked a brow at the news that he was one of the first -- Ty had been so confused those first few days, he hadn’t really been aware of feeling the others come back. And then he’d been laser-focused on Jared. As strange as it all was, it was a relief that Vex knew exactly what he was talking about without him having to explain it. Ty had a feeling that was going to be a pattern as he checked in with more and more of them. Vex didn’t disappoint him with the Weird, either. A year ago Ty would’ve scoffed at anybody claiming to have true visions, but now he believed it without question. “I can’t feel pain anymore,” he answered with a wan smile. “I still get temperature, pressure, all that, it just ... doesn’t hurt. Haven’t decided yet if it’s an advantage or a curse. That’s pretty fucking cool though, about your visions. Can you decide what you wanna see, or just kind of ... make it happen?”
Vex made a soft 'ooph' sound at hearing Ty's gift - or curse, because that kind of thing could really be both - then shook his head at his question. "Nah, can't control what I see and have yet to figure out if they always still show up on their own when it's important. Sometimes it's boring as fuck, but maybe I just haven't picked up on its meaning yet. I see whatever The Great wants me to see." He waved vaguely around to indicate fate, or god, or his god, whatever it was that sent those visions in the first place, then turned around to get some mugs (clean ones) from the cabinet. "Can you turn it on and off? Your thing?" he asked because in that case it could be damn handy but if it was a constant then he could see how that could be a problem.
He glanced around by instinct when Vex gestured, like his ‘Great’ might be suddenly visible somehow, but of course there was nothing but the kitchen that needed cleaning. Ty wasn’t going to delve into anyone’s religious beliefs, especially when he had the vague sense that Vex had some very strange ones. If he thought his visions came from some higher power ... fuck, what did Ty know to contradict that? Not shit. “No,” he said instead, shaking his head a little. “And I’ve tested it with all kinds of pain. It just doesn’t register anymore, it’s weird. I’m in the middle of all kinds of tests at the hospital just in case, but ... I know what it’s really from. I talked to Greer the other day too, and she’s got something new going on too.” Ty wasn’t sure if he should reveal what Greer was dealing with, but he had a feeling it was all going to come out anyway.
"Miriam can mirror whatever anyone else can do," Vex said. "She came by here the other day, just being around me made her get a vision and she's been picking up on magic and shit. I think everyone has something, I just don't know if there's a purpose to it or not." Maybe they were all headed for something terrible - or something great. Maybe both. Gods and cosmic beings tended to be too big for humans to handle or understand so likely it would be both. "As long as I stay myself I don't really care. I don't wanna lose my shit again, I almost killed my firecracker." Everyone of them had almost killed someone, it had been a mess back then and Vex almost wished he couldn't remember it, like it hadn't really been him at all.
Power absorption sounded like a lot, and Ty winced a little at the thought. How weird would that be? How did she handle crowds? Ty knew there were a number of people in town rumored to be able to do unnatural things, he couldn’t imagine just randomly picking up on that with no idea how to wield it. “Yeah same here, I almost killed my husband,” he murmured, still full of regret on that one. “Boyfriend then, of course. Greer has started to see how people are going to die, when she touches them. Doesn’t seem like anything she has control over either.” Honestly, it sounded like he and Vex had gotten the better ends of the power deal, at least so far. None of it seemed to have any rhyme or reason to it, but Ty knew there was no way he could really predict that. He was less cavalier than Vex -- he wanted a normal fucking life, goddammit -- but there wre a lot of things that would be more tolerable than what had already happened to them.
"Oh shit," Vex drawled at hearing about Greer. "That's dark." If it happened all the time she'd likely go mental in the end, always seeing death and more death. Some people could handle that shit, Vex didn't think the pretty little hippy girl was one of them. But then she had survived months in the filthy darkness like the rest of them so maybe he was underestimating her. "Anyone else?" he asked. "I've been meaning to catch up with everyone but time is so fucking abstract, it just passes like that." He snapped his fingers in demonstration before bringing the coffee cups to the table. "Sugar? Milk? Something else entirely, exotic and unusual?" he offered as he plopped down in his usual chair.
“Naw, black is fine, thanks,” Ty murmured as he moved to join Vex at the kitchen table. He pulled the coffee mug intended for him closer and wrapped his hands around it. That warmth was always subconsciously comforting. “But no, I haven’t spoken to anyone else yet. I told Greer I would field the Overlook ladies -- Brianna and Miriam. I just haven’t had a chance yet, been busy getting settled in our new place, finding a new job ... I’m not going back to police work for a while. How about you, you check in with any of the others? Greer had talked to the Lucas kid, but it was a while ago and he said nothing was different for him.” That didn’t mean that nothing had changed in him, maybe he just hadn’t discovered it. Ty wouldn’t have known about his lack of pain if he hadn’t hurt himself by accident.
"Just Carson," Vex replied. "But you already know his thing." He assumed everyone did, though it was possible that Ty didn't know the first thing about werewolves. It wasn't like there was scientific data out there, peer reviewed and presented by David Attenborough. Whatever was out there was a sea of clashing information presented by amateurs and crazy people, most of it wrong so he decided to save Ty the hassle of asking in case he wasn't in the know. "He can change at will now, I'm hoping we can play catch in the garden later." He tittered, more interested in play fighting with the huge wolf but maybe Carson wouldn't be in the mood, he probably had a reason for being back in town and odds were it wasn't fantastic.
The werewolf who might have been the one to eviscerate Sadie could now shift at will. That didn’t feel like very good news to Ty, but he was aware that he still knew very little about Carson’s situation. The opportunity had presented itself to ask, though, and Ty took a calm drink of coffee as he nodded a bit. “So ... he can shift when he wants to ... how aware is he, when he’s a wolf?” Ty asked, trying to sound merely curious and nothing more. “Like I know he obviously liked you over there, and behaved himself in Juniper, but ... how dangerous is he in that form, really?” If Carson had been able to control his murderous impulses this entire time, why had he gone after Sadie? It made no sense, but it was hard to imagine when this switch might have flipped.
"Ever the cop," Vex said with a little grin because of course Ty would ask. To be fair, anyone probably would, they were talking about a scary creature. Even if Carson just turned into a big dog some people might be wary of him and he was so much more than that. "He's not dangerous, not when he shifts on purpose. We're gonna lock him up for the full moon just in case he goes back to being a mindless monster but I think he'll be okay. Better safe than sorry and all that." he suddenly laughed and shook his head. "I mean, he'll be dangerous if he wants to be, we're talking about a big wolf here. I watched him rip some of those monsters on the other side apart like they were just little squeaky toys." He mimicked ripping apart little things, basking in the memory of it. He'd been fairly calm in the other dimension and mostly it was due to constantly being accompanied by his own very large and fanged bodyguard. "I'm gonna have some ice cream, do you want some ice cream?" he asked suddenly and got to his feet, carried by his impulses as usual.
“Ah, no thanks I’m good, man,” he answered with a chuckle. Ty had other, non-cop reasons for asking, of course, but if Vex thought he was only inquiring in the interest of public safety, maybe that was for the best. He sipped on his coffee and let Vex’s wording sink in -- just in case he goes back to being a mindless monster. So Carson was a mindless monster before, but not now? “What do you mean, lock him up for the full moon?” he asked, twisting in his chair to watch Vex bustle around the kitchen. “You’ve got a safe place to keep him? So did he just have no control before our exile, or what?” Ty almost added some excuse about why he wanted to know: he was just curious about all the fuckery in the world he hadn’t ever known about before, it was for the town’s safety, blah blah ... but this was Vex, so maybe he didn’t have to explain himself. God knew the man he was talking to rarely did.
Not padding his questions with information was a good call, people too often did that when they were lying and it was natural to be curious. He thought about the other werewolf and how sadly he could never bring him up to anyone after what had happened to him. Ty might not be a cop anymore and they might be bonded by something bigger, but werewolf or not, most people would see it as murder seeing as the body they'd dumped hadn't been a gigantic and terrifying werewolf anymore. "We have a place," he replied as he got himself a bowl and started opening up the ice cream container. "That's how we met originally, friend of a friend of a friend needed a cage to keep him safe. You don't want one of those things loose in town or anywhere near it. You might remember my auntie was killed by one of them. Animal attack, they said, but I saw it." He tapped his temple in indication that it had been a vision and his finger was cold from handling the ice cream. It reminded him of death. "Great big werewolf. Darker than Carson. Four limbs."
“I do remember that,” Ty murmured as that particular memory came flooding back. He hadn’t been the first on the scene, but he’d been called to this house to assist. It was strange how easily those types of things slipped his mind now, like the whole town was blanketed in trauma he’d witnessed, it all just blurred together until he really tried to look at it. Ty also remembered the eviscerated farm animals now, that cow that had been dumped out by St Dismas before it burned down. Fuck, how did anyone still live here? That was too big of a subject for Ty at the moment though, and he tried to focus. “I’m glad to hear he’s got somewhere safe to stay ... just make sure you guys stay safe too. We don’t need any more of those kinds of deaths,” Ty said. They knew that the werewolf who’d killed Sadie had been missing a limb, it wasn’t a reach to assume it had been Carson, but it sounded like he hadn’t been in control of himself. He hoped that would be enough to give Jared some closure, at least. Ty took another swallow of coffee.
"It's not my first rodeo," Vex reassured him as he sat back down with his ice cream. "We've got a strong cage and some tranqs in case that fails. Someone's always awake with him. You could say it's a whole family event, everyone gets together to get him through the night. It's really kinda sweet when you think about it." That was the appropriate name for these people too; Carson was pack and the Castells were family. Lem was a part of Vex. After everything they'd all seen together they were bound by blood for life. "This time around it may not even be necessary, we'll see how it goes." He might as well tell Ty the cage was in his own basement since Ty would be able to figure it out if he wanted to anyway, but it was unimportant. So many things were unimportant and others were important in ways that were hard to make out. Like Ty being here today, Vex had a feeling it signaled something more to come but maybe he was assigning meaning where there was none.
A whole family event. Ty wasn’t exactly sure who else was in the family, he only knew about Vex’s ‘firecracker’ young lady friend from cryptic things Vex had said about her. He almost asked who else was involved, but that was probably a bit too nosy for a casual conversation. Instead he smiled and nodded a bit. “It does sound sweet. We should all be so lucky to have that kind of family,” he said, and he could mean that sincerely. This would be a lot of fairly good news to tell Jared -- Carson hadn’t been in his right mind when he killed Sadie, and it sounded like he’d enlisted help to do everything he could to keep himself from hurting anyone else. There hadn’t been any more full moon deaths that Ty was aware of, so it seemed to work too. It didn’t make up for Sadie’s loss and he was sure Jared had more grieving and processing to do, but Ty would try to help him through it. “Bet they were all thrilled to see you again when you came back,” he added, sipping his coffee again. “It was so weird -- the girl who first found me? I’d found her months earlier, she had her own ... multi-dimensional adventure.”
"Really," Vex murmured, though he wasn't exactly surprised to hear it. "This wasn't my first multi-dimensional affair either, I've seen things, people who weren't there, a glimpse through the veil. Unfortunately not ghosts, that might have made investigating crimes easier. Or maybe not, maybe ghosts are all coocoo. But yeah, Lem almost killed me when I came back, and then she freaked out in a way only she is capable of. Who's the girl?" Hopping between topics in a near rambly way was nothing new to him and he barely registered that he was doing it as he finally stopped and took a bite of his ice cream.
There was a lot there, but Ty had quickly gotten the sense that words just flowed through Vex like water, and sticking your hands in the stream to try and grab certain topics was usually pretty futile. He wet his lips and gave Vex a wan smile. “I probably shouldn’t drop her name,” he said. “It’s not my secret to tell. But when she went missing she was a child, and when she came back, she was grown up, all in the space of a couple weeks. It was pretty fucking amazing. So who the fuck really knows what’s possible, you know? Sometimes I feel like my brain is a ... blasted-open safe now.” Ty chuckled and finished off what was in his mug, then stood up to go rinse it in the sink.
A grown woman that Ty still referred to as a girl meant she was still young, which meant this was recent and while Vex could be completely spaced out about his surroundings, his cop brain still occasionally kicked in by noticing details and putting together two and two. "Amelia Lucas?" he asked after taking a moment to think about it, brows furrowed. He hoped the answer was yes, then he could perhaps take the little girl off his board as a possible AIR victim. Unless they were responsible for her dimension traveling as well, of course. That was just as likely, but it also meant she wasn't locked up inside the facility like the rest of them had been.
Ty glanced over at him, a little surprised. Maybe Vex’s wires were more connected than he thought. Or Amelia had come up in some other aspect of his life somewhere. “You said it, not me,” he answered with a chuckle. It still felt a bit like a violation of Amelia’s privacy, maybe he shouldn’t have said anything, but it was too late now. “She was gone for something like twelve years on her side ... so I’m glad our own personal hell wasn’t some accelerated time situation on top of everything else.” He finished at the sink and wiped his fingers on his jeans as he turned back to Vex. “Don’t spread that around though. The Lucases are claiming she’s a cousin living with them now. They’re a very, ah ... private family.”
Vex's mind was buzzing with ideas and theories, far more than he could ever really speak out loud. "I don't have any reason to bother them," he reassured Ty though he knew that if it turned out that AIR was responsible, he might end up needing to talk to the girl. "And shit, I wouldn't have wanted to come back to everything different here, or stay there for years, or age unnaturally fast. I'm old enough as it is, damn it." All in all their horrible experience had at least come with if not a happy ending, then an acceptable one for now. Vex didn't think there really had been an ending to it, intermission perhaps but they were still alive and they were still in the middle of everything. He didn't even want to try to imagine what came next.
He was fairly sure none of them would’ve liked that. It had crossed Ty’s mind before -- what might have happened if they’d found it was a decade later when they’d come home. Jared would’ve been long gone, maybe married again to someone else. His mother might have passed away. Everything would’ve been different, and he didn’t think he could’ve handled it in any sane way. It had been hard enough as it was. “Well, let’s count our blessings then,” Ty murmured. “So far, besides Greer’s death-vision, all of the additional ... perks I’ve heard about haven’t been too awful. So let’s hope they stay that way and it’s all just some weird side effect.”
"Hell yeah," Vex replied with a little grin. "Enjoy your pain free existence, Solomon." There were doubtlessly risks associated with not feeling pain but to someone like Vex who believed his whole existence was up to fate it sounded like a sweet perk. He didn't really believe any of their new 'perks' were risk free but to him it was just another weird ride and he was all in. "I gotta ask, for the family's sake," he added, leaning back in his chair and studying Ty for a moment. "Have you made peace with the people who sent us over there?"
Ty knew that if this lack of pain lasted, it would cause complications in his life, but he would deal with them as best he could. Even if the doctors might never understand why it was happening, he could work with them to get checked for issues regularly and all that. He’d rather deal with lots of doctors than visions of the deaths of people he loved. Vex’s question made him quirk a brow and immediately he thought of the terror in Neil’s eyes when they’d run into each other again. He couldn’t help but chuckle faintly. “I’ve only spoken to Neil, out of the four of them,” he said. “We live in the same building now, apparently. But I’d tell the others just like I told him -- I don’t blame them. They saved a lot of lives, including my husband’s. We were lucky they were involved. Nic’s under no threat from me.” Any other feelings he might have about it were his own to handle, Ty was mature enough to know that. He wasn’t some forgiving saint, he just knew the bigger picture was the most important. “What about you?”
"All of them but the girl," Vex replied and Jules Cooper was a potential problem for completely different reasons that Ty was not privy to. "I have no beef with them. Like you said, they saved a lot of lives." Including his own probably. If he'd come to his senses only to find out Lem was dead he wasn't so sure he wouldn't have put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. "I'm sure you enjoyed your chat with Neil," he added with a somewhat amused smile. "I've never met anyone as high strung as that kid." He didn't know how that whole thing had gone down but he could only imagine how freaked out Neil had been when he found out Ty was living in his building. Poor bastard.
The girl. Ty knew it had been a group effort to corral all of the fog-infested people into one place, but the girl had been the one to open the portal to that hellscape. If anyone was blaming the small group who’d put them away, most of that blame was probably landing on Jules Cooper. Ty thought briefly about reaching out to her, but he didn’t want to scare her like he’d scared Neil. Vex’s comment made him chuckle and he nodded. “He damn near shit himself when he saw me,” he said with his own smirk. It wasn’t funny, but it was at the same time. “Of course, I kind of ... threatened him with a gun before we were put away, so I can’t really blame him.” Ty couldn’t help but look a bit sheepish. “I apologized for it. Don’t think he’s gonna be knocking at my door for a cup of sugar anytime soon, but we can be civil.”
"Yeah, I pointed a gun at Nic," Vex said. "While trying to take Lem with me. Probably would have killed her that night, she was so weak. We all did fucked up shit back then." It was a grim reality and yet he smiled as he continued. "She was still so happy to see me come back. Damn near burst my eardrums." He'd met Neil too of course and they'd been civil, they were on the same side in an impossible oncoming war, it was kind of unavoidable. "Neil strikes me as someone who wouldn't knock on anyone's door for anything so don't take that too personally," he tacked on jokingly. "I think he would rather drive for hours to find an open store."
“Sounds about right,” Ty agreed with a faint chuckle. He hardly knew Neil at all, but the guy definitely gave off that timid kind of vibe. It was a small relief to hear that Vex had pointed a gun at someone too when everything had been going crazy -- none of the others Ty had talked to about their final days had really done anything violent. Ty was just glad nothing worse had happened. “We did do fucked up shit. I hope everybody got as warm a welcome back home as you and me.” It hadn’t been completely smooth, he knew Jared had had some understandable trust issues in the very beginning, but all of that had melted away so fast. Seeing him again had been one of the best moments of Ty’s life. “So hey, you want me to touch base again after I talk to everybody? Just so we’re all in the loop?”
"That'd be good," Vex replied. He supposed he could try to track them all down himself for answers but whatever was going on with their ragtag group wasn't a priority to him, even if he was curious about it. "You had a good connection with most of them, having a local deputy may have made them feel a little safer." It was authority and the trust that he had some training, though nobody had the training to deal with what they'd gone through. "You can stop by whenever, you know when I'm home." That was a very convenient thing, but he could also see it being a problem. Hopefully he wouldn't have to take care of more corpses in the future.
They were all connected by some force they didn’t understand, but that didn’t mean they were all talking and on the same page with everything. Ty would’ve happily left all of his former hell-mates alone for the rest of their lives, but the fact that strange things were happening to all of them seemed to mean that their ordeal wasn’t completely over. They all needed to stay in touch just in case something else began to happen. Ty gave a low chuckle and shrugged. “I dunno how safe anybody felt,” he murmured. He’d hoped that his presence and training had been a comfort to some, but everyone knew it had all been beyond anyone’s skills to truly deal with. “But I at least didn’t piss anybody off, so I’m hoping they’ll talk to me.” Ty started to amble toward the kitchen exit and the front door beyond it, ready to get back to Jared with the intel he’d gotten. “Take it easy, Vex.”
Vex didn't know if he'd pissed anyone off or not, people had been wary of him but that had far more to do with him being accompanied by a gigantic werewolf than anything else. He also didn't always know when he upset people nor did he care much so there was that. Ty was better at diplomacy for sure. He followed him leisurely and held the door open once Ty was outside, giving him a little wave goodbye. "Good luck out there, former deputy," he murmured and he didn't really envy Ty his task of talking to everyone else, but perhaps he could delegate with the ones he didn't care to talk about - if there were any. For the fun of it he thought about the others and found he could easily place all of them and that was weirdly soothing. They were all okay still, out and about or at home, everyone who'd made it back still intact.