"It's smart to use their free food and all until you've got a plan here, although you'd get money and they'll arm you if you do join, far as I know." It was the only thing that nearly made Jesper join them. Although he would be much more likely to take the gun and flee, but that would've just gotten him arrested. He can't handle the military, he spent most of his life avoiding being conscripted. Taking his chances here was the best option.

"Nah, considering you're talking about giant non-human sounding creatures, I'm guessing you're not either. You're a Summoned too, right?" And he is going to mark her down as another example of his theory that all Summoned are attractive. Eyes and scars don't take away from a good jawline.

"Our faction isn't so bad. Living in the castle at Thorne I hear is nice, but they arrested a bunch of our kind for existing once upon a time, so not the safest option." Jesper thinks of that as the biggest horror story of this place, although it would not have been the first time he was arrested. "And Solvunn's farmland."