《 Bec, Carla, Jeb, Josh, Kennedy 》<br/>Location: Abendblume<br/><a class="username" data-user-id="6997" data-username="Sayd" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6997/">Sayd</a><a class="username" data-user-id="6997" data-username="Traveler" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6997/">Traveler</a><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper js-lbImage" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-single-image="1" data-src="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/attachments/bec-15-jpg.133125/" title="Bec 15.JPG">
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</div></div><br/><br/>"Front and center as always," The crass words were out of Bec's mouth before she knew it and her gaze shot in the other direction. Had she really just made a<i>boob</i>comment to Jeb Wilson?<br/><br/>Relief from the moment came quickly when Carla laid eyes on the stranger.<br/><br/>"Well, shit," she chuckled. "if it isn't Mr. Mouthy."<br/><br/>Kennedy shrugged with a sweetly apologetic smile to the woman who made few friends. "It is!" Jazz hands.<br/><br/>Carla thought the vision of the three of them together was pretty funny, even funnier when Josh mentioned they were taking him hunting. Her glance shot to Jeb at that announcement and was met with his usual stoic gaze. He was going to have a handful with those two. But still, somehow Kennedy had managed to breach the social walls of Miles and the Wilson brothers which was saying something.<br/><br/>She looked to Bec and confirmed. "Yep, this one is a good one."<br/><br/>If they all liked the guy, she felt she could, too, and it was becoming apparent that there was information to be had. She asked them all up to the old diner where most of Dryden's meetings were held and over the course of the day they started to unravel some of the full story. Abendblume was dropping in resources and felt the need to decrease the population. Emphasis was placed on keeping families and critical skill people in the community while ridding it of those that had been determined to be less crucial or detrimental.<br/><br/>Kennedy recounted those who were expelled along with the reasons why if he knew them. Carla hadn't been expelled but had left on her own accord seeing the move as foolish and cruel. Sou came up Kennedy confirmed she'd be expelled, but he hadn't seen her at the gate where everyone gathered before splitting up to go different ways. He was shocked at the abuse she'd endured but had no information on 'Hell's Demon'. He did, however, know her boyfriend Rebel and recounted how he and a couple of Hale's men helped them, including Armando sneaking him a weapon and the horror show at the KOA involving Hale's oldest son. Jeb and Josh were able to back that and added information of their own. Other exiles were out there. The ones who'd initially split, numbering twenty-three, and the four that had decided to go with the Morris'.<br/><br/>It was a lot to take in and while it eased Bec's concerns about Sou, it raised them overall in regard to Abendblume. She couldn't help but feel nagged by the feeling that the failed negotiations of the year before had been the seed for this incident. On one hand, cutting off Hale had been necessary for Dryden, and sticking it to him after his snotty sexist attitude had felt good, but he was taking it out on his people now instead of just sucking it up to find a real solution. Now there were people dead and stranded and Kennedy was understandably worried about them.<br/><br/>The meeting didn't come to a close until the evening at which point she invited them all to stay and to join her for dinner at her place. She was hungry and tired, like the rest of them. She had Meagan deliver detailed meeting notes to the council members along with directions to gather up some of their combat-ready people for a search and rescue sweep and a short note to Charles letting him know another Abendblume cast out had shown up and some details about Kennedy in case he wanted to let Sou know.<br/><br/>Carla retired shortly after dinner and took Kennedy along with her to get him settled in one of the common houses in town while she hung out a little longer with Josh and Jeb just listening to music and drinking a few beers around the firepit in the little backyard behind her mobile home until they were all ready to call it a night.