08-08-2018, 08:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-08-2018, 08:44 PM by Jay Carpenter.)
Relief flooded. Jay helped Jensen escape, unfortunately all too easily. The guests saw what his brothers did with the policeman, and the insinuating conclusion that it was unwise to piss one of them off hung like bad smoke in the air. Not that Jay would retaliate like that. But he didn't mind letting them think him capable.
The force of the power subsided now the need was passed, but he couldn't release it completely. The void of its wrapping was too necessary a shield. His voice was colder than he expected when he replied, "A teenage girl dying of cancer. Come on, we'll show you." He looked at Jensen amidst scanning for Natalie, gratitude and relief betrayed the dark veil normally hung low by the power.
A brief look halted anyone from interrupting, until his own two feet slammed into place. He found Natalie. She was steps from Amengual. Confronting the operator from the hallway.
Jaw clenched, he pushed forward. Yet with each step he fell further into that void. Grateful for the stillness it offered.
He met Ryker's eyes briefly, blazing the face into memory alongside that of Amengual. The man himself was not ignorant of Jay's presence. When they locked eyes, where shock previously crashed rocky shores, now it bled away on calmer waters.
He silently begged Natalie to not linger any longer. Jay wasn't sure how much more of this he could take before every shred of fear and every drop of dread betrayed him. El Tiburon's was the Shark, after all. If Amengual so much as sniffed blood in the water, vulnerability, weakness, the ensuing fight would be bloody.
The force of the power subsided now the need was passed, but he couldn't release it completely. The void of its wrapping was too necessary a shield. His voice was colder than he expected when he replied, "A teenage girl dying of cancer. Come on, we'll show you." He looked at Jensen amidst scanning for Natalie, gratitude and relief betrayed the dark veil normally hung low by the power.
A brief look halted anyone from interrupting, until his own two feet slammed into place. He found Natalie. She was steps from Amengual. Confronting the operator from the hallway.
Jaw clenched, he pushed forward. Yet with each step he fell further into that void. Grateful for the stillness it offered.
He met Ryker's eyes briefly, blazing the face into memory alongside that of Amengual. The man himself was not ignorant of Jay's presence. When they locked eyes, where shock previously crashed rocky shores, now it bled away on calmer waters.
He silently begged Natalie to not linger any longer. Jay wasn't sure how much more of this he could take before every shred of fear and every drop of dread betrayed him. El Tiburon's was the Shark, after all. If Amengual so much as sniffed blood in the water, vulnerability, weakness, the ensuing fight would be bloody.
Only darkness shows you the light.