i want to taste you again
"Yeah? What'd you expect me to want? To be King of Caido, or learn how to teleport, or kill with a thought?" Grand things, sure, useful, dangerous, but none of them Jack, not really. "There's nothin' more precious than time. Havin' more time is always worth it." Worth the loss, because up until Flora had swanned closer to him a few seasons before, who had there been, and what did it matter? "Besides, I bet I ain't the first to ask for this. How'd you know there's not a whole immortal council out there, lookin' for someone to shake things up?"
A quaint thought, and one that occupies him nicely while he persuades his feet to keep him standing, by which time Flora's hurt seizes through his telepathy and captures him wholly. Forcing a breath in and out, he shakes his head. You asked he might have said, but they've both made their points enough times today for it to be clear that they aren't, either of them, going to land on understanding or compromise.
"Things end all the time," he nevertheless points out as she paints the deep pink of a summer fling across his thoughts. "People don't even have to outlive each other. They fall out of love, or find somethin' better - or worse. Immortality ain't anythin' to do with it."
Waiting for Flora to be finished with her decorations, only then does Jack risk a few wobbly steps, growing in strength and confidence as he picks his way down the hill. That's not to say that a strong breeze won't blow him over, still, but it's better than before.
A quaint thought, and one that occupies him nicely while he persuades his feet to keep him standing, by which time Flora's hurt seizes through his telepathy and captures him wholly. Forcing a breath in and out, he shakes his head. You asked he might have said, but they've both made their points enough times today for it to be clear that they aren't, either of them, going to land on understanding or compromise.
"Things end all the time," he nevertheless points out as she paints the deep pink of a summer fling across his thoughts. "People don't even have to outlive each other. They fall out of love, or find somethin' better - or worse. Immortality ain't anythin' to do with it."
Waiting for Flora to be finished with her decorations, only then does Jack risk a few wobbly steps, growing in strength and confidence as he picks his way down the hill. That's not to say that a strong breeze won't blow him over, still, but it's better than before.
like a secret or a sin
JACK
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
