Well, a giant glowing rose is a good a sign as anything else of where Steven is.
Joker is already airborn when he spots it, after an uncomfortable run in with more than a few people he knows, so it's a simple matter to twist through the air for a change of course. Frankly, he's not half sure he has any damn clue on what he can do. He's not a Guardian, although he suspects that's worked to his advantage, and he doesn't have any particular magic, let alone any that will help him with this kind of nonsense.
...But it's still Steven, down in there. He's still just a scared and miserable kid. Joker can't deal with magic... but he knows he can deal with miserable kids. There's a part of him that never left the streets of the East End, after all.
Besides, barring that, he has a bottle of water and some over-the-counter sleeping medicine tucked away on his person that he lifted from the store he's had to stay at for the last few days. Whatever works, right?
Yet with such a spectacle alerting everyone and their deceased grandmother as to where the boy is, Joker can't be particularly surprised that he spots a flash of green out of the corner of his eye which doesn't belong to the rose. "Peridot!" he calls out as the two of them travel up through the air, to the same place. Right, Steven was upset about her reaction, wasn't she? "I've been with 'im the last few days-" Yeah, that explains why he's been absent at the carnival. "So just follow my lead, alright!?"
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Joker is already airborn when he spots it, after an uncomfortable run in with more than a few people he knows, so it's a simple matter to twist through the air for a change of course. Frankly, he's not half sure he has any damn clue on what he can do. He's not a Guardian, although he suspects that's worked to his advantage, and he doesn't have any particular magic, let alone any that will help him with this kind of nonsense.
...But it's still Steven, down in there. He's still just a scared and miserable kid. Joker can't deal with magic... but he knows he can deal with miserable kids. There's a part of him that never left the streets of the East End, after all.
Besides, barring that, he has a bottle of water and some over-the-counter sleeping medicine tucked away on his person that he lifted from the store he's had to stay at for the last few days. Whatever works, right?
Yet with such a spectacle alerting everyone and their deceased grandmother as to where the boy is, Joker can't be particularly surprised that he spots a flash of green out of the corner of his eye which doesn't belong to the rose. "Peridot!" he calls out as the two of them travel up through the air, to the same place. Right, Steven was upset about her reaction, wasn't she? "I've been with 'im the last few days-" Yeah, that explains why he's been absent at the carnival. "So just follow my lead, alright!?"