That's the one thing you can always count on in an old shithole like this, the beds are always worn in. I know that the mattress I'm sitting on would light up like bad punch lines in an old B-movie if I were to use anything on it to see substance, but I've got a wait ahead of me, and the closet is about the only moderately clean place I can fathom ( Read more... )

I can't sleep. I'm too damn nervous. The wheels under the panel at my feet are trekking up a steady hum with the miles of pavement we're crossing and with each additional mile I look out the window, watching the twilight landscape zipping past. It's like I'm flying. It's like a freefall into the unexpected and all I can do is grin inside, my chest ( Read more... )

It's the soft, thrumming beep that I hear first. Steady... steady... a heartbeat. A mechanical heartbeat. Then I catch the soft voices in the hallway, the skid of their scrubs swishing across the seedy cream tiles. The smell, god I hate that smell. It's not clean, it's just... old. Too many chemicals, sickness, babies crying, people crying, ( Read more... )

I can’t remember my early childhood very well, but it seems like most others don’t either. Not before four or five anyway. It’s like all the secrets of the universe are born into us from the moment that conception occurs, as though Heaven has some secret channel into our minds to tell us what we’re going to need to eventually figure out again after ( Read more... )

Shadow Name: Jinx
Mortal Alias: Gemma Lassiter
Real Name: Unknown

Path: Moros
Order: Free Council
Legacy: (Still in the works) - Name: Katakrisimos, or "The Judged" / Nickname: The Half-Dead

Concept: Snake-Charmer, Hacker L33T, Runaway Rebel, Alleyway Geek With A Dark Streak

( Jinx )