[ maybe she wasn't starving, but when he saw her there, he saw a person who desperately needed someone to intervene and help. Johnny's no angel and not much help to anyone, to be sure, but he was there. Fate is funny like that. Sometimes the stars align just so, and you're in exactly the right position to be helping out the woman who would probably have seen you culled from the group if she was in charge.
That said: all of that stuff feels sort of hazy and far away now. He hasn't forgotten the things she said to him. He's also not so petty that he can't see the bigger picture. They're just two people, unwittingly caught up in some cosmic tragedy neither of them understand. Under these circumstances, she'd have to do a lot more than be mean for him to truly hold a grudge.
Her explanation has him nodding briskly. ]
Yeah. Same for me. It was like I was lookin' down from above.
[ Johnny neither confirms or denies that it has to be real. He doesn't know. He's seen so many impossible things, now; he's spoken to the dead and seen a girl conjure wealth from nothingness. Maybe there's a Stand out there that can weave memories into illusions and store them as beads. He doesn't know. But he'd like to believe it's real. Just as before, he can't accept that everything is gone, and any evidence he can find is worth clinging to. ]
... I dunno what it means, exactly. It could just be that guy wants us to work for him and has some crazy tricks up his sleeves. I know I don't trust him. But those "pearls" are proof him and his know something about home. [ he folds his arms, resting them on top of his pack where it's perched on Slow Dancer's shoulders. ] You say you're on his side, you get money on the regular. Enough to get by on. Whether you mean it or you just want more information - it doesn't matter.
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That said: all of that stuff feels sort of hazy and far away now. He hasn't forgotten the things she said to him. He's also not so petty that he can't see the bigger picture. They're just two people, unwittingly caught up in some cosmic tragedy neither of them understand. Under these circumstances, she'd have to do a lot more than be mean for him to truly hold a grudge.
Her explanation has him nodding briskly. ]
Yeah. Same for me. It was like I was lookin' down from above.
[ Johnny neither confirms or denies that it has to be real. He doesn't know. He's seen so many impossible things, now; he's spoken to the dead and seen a girl conjure wealth from nothingness. Maybe there's a Stand out there that can weave memories into illusions and store them as beads. He doesn't know. But he'd like to believe it's real. Just as before, he can't accept that everything is gone, and any evidence he can find is worth clinging to. ]
... I dunno what it means, exactly. It could just be that guy wants us to work for him and has some crazy tricks up his sleeves. I know I don't trust him. But those "pearls" are proof him and his know something about home. [ he folds his arms, resting them on top of his pack where it's perched on Slow Dancer's shoulders. ] You say you're on his side, you get money on the regular. Enough to get by on. Whether you mean it or you just want more information - it doesn't matter.