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

[FlameFlash]

> 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.

Aurora feels the flash, feels the power flowing through Jack to
Chrsitine to her, the messages and power.
>
> "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.

"Wait..." Aurora thinks back to the two of them... "If you are
partially spirit, might some spiritual sustinance...?"

((OOC: Prime 2, Spirit 3, Life 1: Channel Quint to another... fuel
pattern varient.  1 pt Quint.))

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