JACK
"Flora..." Jack nearly chokes on his inhalation at the crushing weight of her thoughts and feelings, dragging up a hasty barrier and succinctly putting out his cigarette as if to punish it for stealing his breath instead. "It is, though," he says in a low voice. It is only a child. Nothing he could make on his own and nothing he'd care to create even if he had the option in truth. But as the Doubletake understands and then misunderstands, he feels the weight of a noose around his own neck as he's forced to clarify.
"You're wrong," he says. "In a dream like that, she... well. I could show you but you'd not want to see it." Not splashed across the walls of the House of Midnight. "I didn't realise what I was doin' until it was already happenin'. Better men than I have tripped into that goddess's arms." Jack is not the gold standard, not by far.
As for the price, he reaches beneath his shirt to draw the necklace and its dark stone over his head. "Wear that to Starfall and the void creatures there'll treat you like a Friend of the Family. Not necessarily for me, but for whoever does the doing out there..."
"You're wrong," he says. "In a dream like that, she... well. I could show you but you'd not want to see it." Not splashed across the walls of the House of Midnight. "I didn't realise what I was doin' until it was already happenin'. Better men than I have tripped into that goddess's arms." Jack is not the gold standard, not by far.
As for the price, he reaches beneath his shirt to draw the necklace and its dark stone over his head. "Wear that to Starfall and the void creatures there'll treat you like a Friend of the Family. Not necessarily for me, but for whoever does the doing out there..."
fight so dirty but you love so sweet
talk so pretty but your heart got teeth
talk so pretty but your heart got teeth
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
