[Sodium_noir] Saturday Evening - En route to the Sinclair Party

[Liz Oleksyn]

Aurora, Christine, Jack, Mara, Mitsuko
A Gathering of Supernaturals
Temple of the Five Dragons

> “I’m not sure there are... any words...for what I
am...”

>Then I guess we'll all just have to learn some new
words, thinks >Christine with as much confidence as
she can muster. Stick around >long enough to teach us?

Her words are tinged with frustration and fear and
helplessness and confusion.  Bad dog, Jack.  You’re
giving them a fucked-up puzzle with no apparent
solution.  You’ll be dead soon.  You will cease to
exist because of your own ignorance.  If you don’t
fight, this freedom is wasted.

Jack draws upon his will - formidable enough that even
Christine gets a sense of it - and focuses once more
on the wounded hand.  The blood flows again and it
becomes apparent that this bloodletting is necessary
in order for him to make this silent connection.  The
object of the sacrifice, this time, is Aurora.  It’s
not a private conversation - she’s simply being
included in the ongoing dialogue.

“I will try...harder... to stay.  Sorry to be so...
obscure.  I really don’t have...human words...for
this.  I’m like those spirits you saw...but much...
darker.  Forced into this body...don’t know who it
belonged to.  Don’t have...his memories or
consciousness...only his sense of...how to
behave...how to be human.  I tried to be more...than
a...possession.  Akril died and I was free...but
didn’t know where to go.  And these... talismans...
were supposed to help me.  But maybe, I did
something... wrong.  The purpose wasn’t to kill
myself...”

He feels Aurora’s gaze and a subtle sense that she’s
looking for something beyond his flesh - digging for
what’s beneath.

“Oh, man... you may not...want to look too deeply...
into me. “

Still, whether from weakness or choice, Jack doesn’t
attempt to prevent the search.

(tag)

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