Jack-ei
Chaq'k'tar
(Come one come all to the Carnival ride of the millenia. Killers and leapers, dramatists and reservists partake of your little heart's content and welcome my newest character.)
Jack-ei sat, he enjoyed sitting and watching those that walked around him. Those that tried to approach him after the show were met with the coldest glance they'd ever seen and soon walked away clutching their children close. What was he? What subhuman parasite was he spawned from that was muttered in hushed tones by those in the galaxy unfortunate enough to know? That's a story for another time. Today, and for the past few weeks, Jack-ei had been an acrobat. A knife throwing acrobat. Yes. Such things exist in the galaxy. He fit the role well, slender and muscular but not too slender. Large enough to be deemed "pretty" by those that dared say it. All was a ruse, a ploy to get closer. But in this instance the thing he needed to get closer to was deviously distant.
He had caught her eye during his final death defying leap. She was a prostitute owned by a fat man getting fatter by the second. And no, he didn't want her in that way. He wanted her in a far more intimate and savage way. He grinned to himself as she exited the beast tamer's hutch, another day another credit. He did value money enough to really save anything, what he wanted he bought. What he couldn't buy he took. It's the way the galaxy's always been. In truth he hated the thing he needed to get closer to. She held her head in such a way as to look down on others. The whore shouldn't be looking down on anyone, certainly not Jack-ei. He would show her that, in time.
But for now, for tonight, his prey was closer at hand. What's that old line about being the last two people in the galaxy? He'd find out eventually.
Jack-ei sat, he enjoyed sitting and watching those that walked around him. Those that tried to approach him after the show were met with the coldest glance they'd ever seen and soon walked away clutching their children close. What was he? What subhuman parasite was he spawned from that was muttered in hushed tones by those in the galaxy unfortunate enough to know? That's a story for another time. Today, and for the past few weeks, Jack-ei had been an acrobat. A knife throwing acrobat. Yes. Such things exist in the galaxy. He fit the role well, slender and muscular but not too slender. Large enough to be deemed "pretty" by those that dared say it. All was a ruse, a ploy to get closer. But in this instance the thing he needed to get closer to was deviously distant.
He had caught her eye during his final death defying leap. She was a prostitute owned by a fat man getting fatter by the second. And no, he didn't want her in that way. He wanted her in a far more intimate and savage way. He grinned to himself as she exited the beast tamer's hutch, another day another credit. He did value money enough to really save anything, what he wanted he bought. What he couldn't buy he took. It's the way the galaxy's always been. In truth he hated the thing he needed to get closer to. She held her head in such a way as to look down on others. The whore shouldn't be looking down on anyone, certainly not Jack-ei. He would show her that, in time.
But for now, for tonight, his prey was closer at hand. What's that old line about being the last two people in the galaxy? He'd find out eventually.