JACK
"I only agreed to ferry a few crates," Jack says, smirking around his cigarette and reaching out to light the new one The Ark has rolled for herself. "Ain't like I tied my banner to Colt's bridle and told her to lead the way." Whether the desert region does or doesn't make anything of itself is none of the Captain's concern; the work offered will give him more of an opportunity to see what the place does without needing to make up a reason to go there, and in the meantime it isn't as though his business ventures in King's End are dead in the water.
The restless churn of her mind has him raising his eyebrows, reaching out to stub the cigarette out in the tray just as she rises to her feet. "Keep that up an' I'll give you somethin' to do," he says, the warning the sort that promises kindling a very different kind of heat to keep them warm. He adjusts to let her stand between his knees as if she was always meant to fit there, catching a lock of fiery hair around his finger and letting his brows slowly come together in a frown.
"You ask as though I'm some lost soul drownin' in his own indecision," he says, and if the words come out curt it's because he intends them to be. "I ain't. I wanna do what I've always wanted to do - be the thing that makes the world go round. Sometimes the world spins slower while dust settles an' leaders change an' ledgers go missin'. But it always speeds up again soon enough."
The restless churn of her mind has him raising his eyebrows, reaching out to stub the cigarette out in the tray just as she rises to her feet. "Keep that up an' I'll give you somethin' to do," he says, the warning the sort that promises kindling a very different kind of heat to keep them warm. He adjusts to let her stand between his knees as if she was always meant to fit there, catching a lock of fiery hair around his finger and letting his brows slowly come together in a frown.
"You ask as though I'm some lost soul drownin' in his own indecision," he says, and if the words come out curt it's because he intends them to be. "I ain't. I wanna do what I've always wanted to do - be the thing that makes the world go round. Sometimes the world spins slower while dust settles an' leaders change an' ledgers go missin'. But it always speeds up again soon enough."
no more than I was or than I want to be
when you fall on me like night, I wanna kill the lights
when you fall on me like night, I wanna kill the lights
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
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