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My nose.

No lies.

I could tell you it's my eyes, that looking at those are the only real way to tell what I'm thinking, but I won't.

I could tell you it's my hair, thats its not too straight and flat, and not so curly I can't control it, but....that seems almost cliche.

No, out of all of them, I'd say it's my nose.  It's neither raised, nor used to ( Read more... )

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand is in what direction you are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the 6th grade, Chase's math teacher had told her she was meant for great things.  She'd regarded the comment as plain, and frankly not meaning much because her father had told her the world was her oyster, too.  But as she ( Read more... )

When Chase was twelve, she visited the Houston Garden Center on a school field trip.  She loved it.

She wasn't huge into flowers herself, and she held no aspirations to secretly become the worlds best gardner, but her mother used to garden.  Though she'd been quite young when her mother died, Chase still remembered spending sun filled afternoons ( Read more... )

I think I'm gonna say evenly between selfish and self-less on this one.

Self less because day in and day out my whole thoughts are based on who I'm supposed to be helping and who might die if I don't act.  Self less because I constantly put myself on the line for people I don't know.

Selfish because I'm doing that in the first place.

I mean, who ( Read more... )

"Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God given right to be stupid." - Dean Koontz

Amen.

You know this job?  It's about cleaning up.  Cleaning up other peoples messes.

Seriously.

I mean, come on.  You HAVE to lack sense if you try to control spirits for your own bidding.  No one likes to be controlled against their will ( Read more... )

( The thing about spring was that it was happy, and Chase just wasn't the happy type )

Tough one.  Gun to my head choice, though, is probably dying for someone else.   It makes sense, with the way I live my life.  I spend virtually everyday with the idea that it could be my last, and I do it all for other people.  It's a tough job, but somebodys gotta do it, right ( Read more... )

( We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves - Eric Hoffer )

Bars across the country had become something of a home for Chase.  After a particularly nasty hunt, or even after a surprisingly good one, she usually found herself sitting at a bar.  It's where she cooled off, calmed down, drowned out the memories.  It's where she celebrated, congratulated herself on a job well done.  It's where she gathered ( Read more... )