JACK
"Right, right. Riddles," Jack drawls after Flora with a grin; there are undoubtedly quite a few people in Torchline who have found themselves on the wrong end of a blade of ice in their time, and not all of it is Jack's fault - he's hardly the only Abandoned there with water magic. Taking another considerable sip of whiskey, he relaxes enough to let the buzz of the other passengers' thoughts settle in his mind as it would back in Torchline, honed for any danger in range, but otherwise allowing it to fade to a low hum.
"I dunno, some of 'em are real bitches," Jack says of ships and their accountability, grinning out at the world shrinking away beyond. He doesn't expect her question, or her honest curiosity, the captain glancing sidelong at her and considering for a moment before he answers.
"I'd been on the black market scene for a bit, posin' as a merchant," he explains. "Had started to be able to block people out long enough to get work done. The Ark had been a dead ship in Kaiholo for... fuck, years, maybe. No one wanted her, she was practically a wreck. Meant I got her cheap, could fix her up. Learned everythin' I needed to from other captains and crews, and just faked it until it was easy as breathin'." He shrugs. "I grew up in the Haulani's slums, so it's not like sailin' was ever really a foreign concept."
"I dunno, some of 'em are real bitches," Jack says of ships and their accountability, grinning out at the world shrinking away beyond. He doesn't expect her question, or her honest curiosity, the captain glancing sidelong at her and considering for a moment before he answers.
"I'd been on the black market scene for a bit, posin' as a merchant," he explains. "Had started to be able to block people out long enough to get work done. The Ark had been a dead ship in Kaiholo for... fuck, years, maybe. No one wanted her, she was practically a wreck. Meant I got her cheap, could fix her up. Learned everythin' I needed to from other captains and crews, and just faked it until it was easy as breathin'." He shrugs. "I grew up in the Haulani's slums, so it's not like sailin' was ever really a foreign concept."
believer, believe it or not you'll know
when it ends and how it goes
when it ends and how it goes
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
