#* esra

"You don't call, you don't write." Not that he took much out of his own time to reach out to Esra, a friendship that had blossomed in perhaps one of the most unruly of places and didn't extend much beyond it. "I'd say I'm offended, but.." He shrugs, settling into the harshly lit streetlight just beyond her place of work. The late hour wasn't surprising, the woman he knew worked non-stop, the pattern of predictability allowing him to keep up with her whereabouts more recently. It was, after all, how he knew she'd be here late. "You look like you could use a drink."

There's a sickening twist in the pit of her stomach that might have sent a far saner person in the other direction but she's never been accused of something so mindlessly boring and upon setting onyx hues on Esra, her radar pings off like lightning. "You certainly have been busy," tongue clicks against the back of her teeth as she leans just far enough across the railing of the bannister to block the woman's path, the corner of her mouth twitching as she indulges a lingering once over, encapsulated in the smallest huff of a sound; as if she'd come to some long awaited conclusion. "So many rumors — so much to clean up..." The Nightshade alone were impervious to a great many secrets in the city; wraiths in the night very rarely seen in places that offer unspoken truths, but even Jack had her own eyes and ears and despite the quick efforts, something always slipped through the cracks. "It must be exhausting."

Location: Generic Bar starter

"Be still my beating heart...." there's something to be said for the kind of love they shared; the gentle admiration that was more often than not shadowed by the intense need to bully her to within an inch of her life, and more often than not, vice versa. "I was just thinking about how long its been since I've had a run in with a viper and fates, i can hardly be disappointed." Maverick gestures subtly to the barstool beside him - the offense he'd consider should she pass it up for company elsewhere. "Come, tell me about whatever mess you've been busy cleaning up this week, I could use the laugh.."