JACK
"Either way, it means a lot of purple fuckin' eyes are gonna be on Torchline where there weren't any before. An' I ain't lookin' forward to findin' out what The Family do when you actually touch a nerve on em." Jack exhales a long, slow breath and peers out at the glittering sea, made inky black by the falling night.
He knows that Vesper occupies a different sort of space in the world to Nova and Calypso, and though part of him feels a sudden surge of defiance at his words - perhaps he would be the one to explain to Safrin why the children she's just spilled into Caido aren't ready to go toe to toe with the likes of Dahlia - he's a realist at the end of it all, and in the end he offers little more than a quiet nod. "Good thing you'll have a place to run laps, then, when the barrier goes up," he says with a scoff.
"An' in the meantime, so long as you ain't usin' my face as the chalkboard again, I'll teach you how to lie, cheat an' steal in a fight." Bonding and shit, right?
He knows that Vesper occupies a different sort of space in the world to Nova and Calypso, and though part of him feels a sudden surge of defiance at his words - perhaps he would be the one to explain to Safrin why the children she's just spilled into Caido aren't ready to go toe to toe with the likes of Dahlia - he's a realist at the end of it all, and in the end he offers little more than a quiet nod. "Good thing you'll have a place to run laps, then, when the barrier goes up," he says with a scoff.
"An' in the meantime, so long as you ain't usin' my face as the chalkboard again, I'll teach you how to lie, cheat an' steal in a fight." Bonding and shit, right?
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
