
[Spam, Open]
[Paris, for Mason, is a bit like being in familiar territory once more. He's on the right side of the ocean at the very least, and seems to be having a good, albeit subdued sort of time. Tiffany's graduated, but she won't let him into the bar on the ship, and he seems...all right, in that knowledge. He hates making her, or making Gwen or Allison disappointed in him. Their faces when he fails again are the worst things in the world, especially when he doesn't have hangovers as a physical reminder.
During the day, Mason will spend his hours hanging with friends, going to shops and museums and things, enjoying his time spent off the ship.
Still, though, he is a reaper. And he tends to move where there's death. He avoids the catacombs so that he doesn't accidentally run into any lost souls, but he does visit the aboveground graveyards by himself]
[Later on, it's dark. He's walking back to his hotel, hands stuffed in his pockets, enjoying his feelings of sobriety and how good food tastes again. Everything seems much more enhanced, like he's living in HD when he's not completely smashed. It's nice. But there's always that craving following him like a shadow.
It's past 2am when he finds the body of a homeless man, curled up in an alleyway and wrapped around the half-empty bottle.
Mason's seen a million bodies in his afterlifetime. He crouches next to the man without fear, albeit with a little hesitation, and sets his hand on the man's shoulder like he might have when he was still working.
With his other hand, he pulls the bottle from the man's grasp, looking it over.
The craving is always going to be there, but for the moment, he feels stronger and more in control. Mason sets the bottle back.
Somewhere in the city, Gwen's tracker on her communicator fades off.]