JACK
Jack comes undone at the seams in a wash of cosmic light, consumed by thoughts he has only the barest fraction of a chance at understanding, his lungs burning and heart galloping in his chest fast enough that any sound medic would consider it life-threatening. He doesn't know if he'll come down from this with his ship still intact from the wild and uncontrolled pulses of his own magic, doesn't know if he'll come down from this at all in truth.
But take it, Safrin says, and Jack reaches out to grasp the livewire of celestial ecstasy, letting it trill through him like a pleasure he's never known and never will again. He hears nothing, says nothing as something raw and primordial sears him from the inside out, though distantly he imagines any rational person would cry out or scream. (In pleasure or terror, though, who knows?)
Lost in endless darkness and blinding radiance, at his heart the captain is, alas, a mere mortal, and he will return from this at Safrin's mercy and little else.
But take it, Safrin says, and Jack reaches out to grasp the livewire of celestial ecstasy, letting it trill through him like a pleasure he's never known and never will again. He hears nothing, says nothing as something raw and primordial sears him from the inside out, though distantly he imagines any rational person would cry out or scream. (In pleasure or terror, though, who knows?)
Lost in endless darkness and blinding radiance, at his heart the captain is, alas, a mere mortal, and he will return from this at Safrin's mercy and little else.
we've gone way too fast for way too long
and we were never supposed to make it half this far
and we were never supposed to make it half this far
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
