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Click hereWow, ruthless with the description. "Um, thank you." Everyone was interested? What did that mean? It was like she was purposefully dropping hints to tease him about what he didn't know, complete with sly grins.
"Getting to know the young prodigy, Jennifer?"
He froze. Jacob was approaching, with a sly grin that echoed Jennifer's, except times a thousand. He was a walking, talking comic book character who put his ridiculous and exaggerated expressions and emotions on display like life were a play. But then, to an elder as old as Jacob, second life was probably a grand stage.
He tried to ignore the beast in his gut. It could handle Maria and Michael and Garry, and even Antoinette, without cowering to its knees, but there were two Kindred in the city that just being near was enough to make every fiber of his being want to run. The sheriff, and this psycho fucker. The Joker comparisons were not unwarranted.
"Prodigy?" she said.
"Yes, the young Master Terry here is carving himself quite the career path. Bloodline of Viktor Honors, childe of the Julias the youngest Invictus Council member I've ever known, and himself a proficient Invictus businessman with his own connections. Not many share the arm of the Prince." He said it all so perfectly, fluidly, without stutter or wavering of his huge smile, that it made Jack's feet tremble.
But fuck that. Enough of these fucking elders and their fucking games.
He raised his eyes and forced them to look at the wrap where Jacob's eyes should have been. "You know a lot about me."
The Nosferatu chuckled. "I know a lot about many, but you little Ventrue are a curiosity." He circled Jack then, like a wolf eye preying.
Jack managed a quick peak over his shoulder up at Julias. His sire was watching Jacob with enough intensity that he was surprised the elder didn't burst into flames. Another peak showed that more than Julias were watching, Natasha, Jessy, and Maria were as well. So he was the center of attention. Again.
"What makes you say that, elder Jacob?" Fuck any 'your excellency' bullshit, and fuck calling him Alder. He wasn't Invictus.
"I'm not exactly sure." He stopped around in front of Jack again, and leaned down a little to bring his face in close. Having no eyes to make eye contact with was making the conversation very unusual. "I only know one other Kindred who has that weird, unknown quantity. Unpredictable. Hard to guess. I like it!" He leaned in even closer until their noses were almost touching.
Jack gritted his teeth and stood his ground. "You believe so?" He didn't ask about the other Kindred who interested him. That would tip him off that he didn't know. The Danse Macabre was a disgusting game.
"I know so," he said. Jennifer watched, entranced by the exchange between them. "Why else would the Prince be interested in you, hmm?"
"People can like each other for simpler reasons than that."
"Kindred aren't people, Jack." The monster's grin disappeared. "Never forget that."
"Now presenting, the Prince of Dolareido, Voivode Antoinette, and her sheriff Daniel," the marshal of the court said.
Oh thank god.
- COMMENTS
Jackspeed2uover 1 year agoFuck the eyeless fuck. And that Jennifer’s thick as a post. She goes hard into Darwin’s logic and science while not knowing that it’s written entirely for the natural kingdom but only animals that aren’t self aware.
Then with one stroke her belief system is struck down, the notion of choice. So being dumb she can’t rebut a simple counterpoint and doubles down on stupid, “Kindred don’t have choice.” Well that’s bullshit. Bullshit that can be easily proven. Jennifer while being totally unaware of the Round crones bullshit, was a member of another group, then Jennifer using her own free will made a choice to join the crone. That’s free will and choice right there and that invalidates all of Darwin’s evolution science.
Darwin is correct but it’s for mindless animals. It is, was and always for mindless animals. That’s because that’s what Darwin studied and researched to write his groundbreaking book.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoAwesome. Just awesome. Putting of other important stuff to binge on this. Thanks, thanks, for writing.
NovusAnimusalmost 6 years agoAuthorInconsistencies! It's the unfortunate inevitability of writing a series in chunks while also not having a stand-by editor.
I'll have to do another editing pass before I resume the series.
Anonymousalmost 6 years agoThis chapter says Julius was sired in WWI but in the first chapter of the first part he specifically says the second world war so it wasn't a simple typing mistake there, though I did get the feeling through most of it that the timing was off because it kept sounding like he was older than WWII times.
NovusAnimusabout 6 years agoAuthorWell that's good, cause Mark Hamill's Joker is the voice Jacob has in my head!
