7 Fathoms Down ☠ Returning [action/accidental audio]
In the wooded area behind C1 Jack Sparrow is huddled on the damp ground, wearing New Feather trousers and with a gold locket hanging round his neck. His knees are tucked against his chest, arms wrapped around them, eyes closed-he looks more like a man trapped in a dark narrow place than a man sitting outdoors in the spring air and sunshine.
With the journal open beside him, he is muttering something over and over again in a dull voice. It might be that Jack has spent a week tripping over these words, just to have something to fill the dark narrowness of death:
“How many…
How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candlelight?
Yes, there and back again.
If your heels are nimble and light,
…
If your heels are nimble and light,
You will get there by candlelight.
How many miles….how many miles to Babylon, Jacky? Toss me up in a basket, will you? Twenty-seven times as high as the moon?”
Something finally snaps him out of it---maybe the song of a curious bird, or perhaps the feeling of the damp early spring air on his skin is finally registering. One eye cracks open, then the other as Jack takes in his surroundings: soggy, end-of-winter woods; the sounds of a river running not far off; the blue wash of the sky between the tree branches overhead. Could it be that it was not a dream after all? That he could be…back, again?
But being brought out of the land of the dead has historically had a confounding effect upon Sparrow. Nothing can be certain, nothing. The “P” branded into his arm, now-THAT was certainty. And spiraling down his other arm, in beautiful script---
“Jilly?”
[[OOC: Takes place about a week after this. Jack is back from the dead. He is not suffering from memory loss, but confusion and uncertainty and paranoia. He will recognize his CR but he might not trust you, or fully believe that you are actually there at first. To all appearances he is healthy and unaffected by the death. The journal will pick up his strange mumbly rhyming and "Jilly," though his voice may sound a bit high and faraway and maybe even unrecognizable.
Also, I decided to go ahead and put this up before work, so tags may come later on. Just had to get it off my chest. XD <3]]