Re: Chapter 1 - Introductions Are a Plus
Having fallen silent for the most part, Jaylene listened to the current conversation with only about half an ear towards it. She didn't know much about vampires, even less about the pop culture that surrounded them (she hadn't gotten swept up in the particular books that were being discussed for example!) so the sardonic banter flew right over her head.
On the more serious note, she just didn't want to get involved about talk about what was gonna kill her. Truth was, she was going to miss sunlight, and she knew that fire was lethal... so were bullets when it came right down to it, it seemed, though Jaylene wasn't about to run her mouth off about it. She didn't exactly trust everyone here, especially not when they seemed so gung ho to believe that things were going to be all sparkles (okay, maybe not sparkles... bad analogies there) and unicorns.
She leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms over her chest, playing with the weathered leather that bunched up over the inside of her elbows. That rainjacket fella bothered her some, though more in the sense that something seemed really wrong with him. The speech impediment didn't help that fact. The guy must have had something pretty wrong done to him to be dressed up like he didn't want anyone's eyes on him.
The white-haired chick spoke oddly, too, though it was less like she had a speech impediment and more like she had been caught in the middle of some kind of bad high school rendition of a Shakespeare play. Jaylene had given her a brief look over and decided that Luna was probably the kind of girl who got picked on in class and had an oh-so-dark soul that just screamed out for attention... it was probably the hair, contacts and getup that gave her that first impression. She was hard pressed to decide on whether Rashar or Luna were the worse off.
In any case, she wouldn't be turning her back on anyone soon. She turned her attention to Isabella and Raven. Of everyone here, those two seemed the least intimidating. Seemed to know what she was talking about, too... sort of. Jaylene's family had always been an honest, church-going bunch, but it wasn't like she believed in most of the schpeel handed out to her. She didn't think that this whole symbols-of-faith thing made much sense. Well, at least Isabella wasn't going off about things like Fletch and Eve had been, or gone all withdrawn like Ronell.
"Think they're actually gonna let us get a question in edgewise?" she asked the pale woman (Isabella, not Luna) as she shifted on her chair. She looked Raven over, trying to decide whether the young man was just incredibly shy, or shell-shocked, or both. She assumed that he was in the same boat as the rest of them, what with the just getting turned into whatever they were now.
