[hr][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/TEvPZje.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/OgAxSZT.png[/img][/center][right][b]Interactions:[/b] Neko ([@Atrophy]), & Ophrenia ([@silvermist1116]).[/right][right][b][code]Summit Motel Parking Lot.[/code][/b][/right][hr]

The German gal was[i] not[/i] used to this. 

Walking around with weapons - regardless of it being a pistol or a switchblade - was simply [i]insane[/i] to Jasmine, but this [i]was[/i] America... where people shot up schools on a near-daily basis. She lived in a state where people got high off bath salts and ran around naked. Maybe that combat knife she just purchased and (very poorly) stashed into her sweatshorts didn't seem [i]that[/i] insane. Jasmine accompanied Neko in her little investigation, and, to the surprise of no one (probably), [i]they never even checked into the hotel[/i]. They clearly got spooked and left, but Jasmine felt little need to dive deeper into the two. Jasmine was here for Eleanor and Eleanor alone; if they wasted time chasing after everyone that got spooked, [i]they[/i] were going to go missing next. 

And it was clear that nobody was going to look for them. Jasmine stuck around near Neko, unbothered by the cigarette smoke, when the latter dropped a [i]particula[/i]r question on her...

[quote][color=FFB6C1]“Hey Jasmine, can I ask you a question? You don’t have to answer it and I’m sorry if this seems like I’m prying but it’s just, you know, I get Charlie wanting to look for her mom. I get Carl wanting to look for his wife. But if it wasn’t my daughter who’d gone missing but somebody who was responsible for an awful moment in my life I wouldn’t go looking for them when they suddenly got replaced by a different person. I definitely wouldn’t go looking for them in a dangerous swamp with a bunch of trigger-happy strangers. I'd probably still be hungover from celebrating. So, um, why?”[/color][/quote]

[color=saddlebrown][i]Nosy, American.[/i][/color] 

Jasmine mentally seethed; while she wanted to say it aloud, she didn't want to antagonize the group (Maybe Charlie later). Neko dropped a [i]major[/i] question on Jasmine, which the latter would have dismissed if it wasn't because she didn't want to cast suspicion on herself. While Neko gave her the easy way out, Jasmine had her idea of the kind of person Neko was - the pushy kind that'd silently judge her - and knew she would be suspicious of her. Suspicion was not optimal, [i]especially[/i] when Jennifer herself was the shadiest person in the world and lacked the social competency to realize that. Jasmine would give Neko half the story - only half because she didn't want to make things awkward by saying she had feelings for someone who could be her daughter.

[color=saddlebrown][i]"Closure,"[/i][/color] Jasmine started, [color=saddlebrown]"Me and Eleanor - [i]my[/i] Eleanor - have unfinished business, and I would sleep much better at night if we resolved this."[/color] She kept it at one sentence, short and straightforward.

That was when Ophrenia showed up with a shotgun slung around her shoulder; Neko told her to put the damn thing away - which Jasmine would have agreed with, but it was pretty apparent that Ophrenia wouldn't listen regardless of how much logic you waved in her face. Then Ophrenia just [i]have[/i] to show off - probably out of some lesbian desire for Z... who likely would continue to stand there. Jasmine shook her head as she walked over to Jen who suggested two routes... a quick route directly through the swamp and a long but safer route. Jasmine knew what the group would pick, but Erik asked if there was something else. Of course, Jasmine had just seen a ghost yesterday, so she wasn't that skeptical anymore. She turned towards Erik and chuckled. Ophrenia, in a moment of competency undisplayed before, suggested taking the safe route and Jasmine had to joke. She turned towards Ophrenia and said,

[color=saddlebrown]"... And here I was thinking you were [i]itching[/i] to use your new toy."[/color] Then chuckled.