04-01-2023, 05:33 PM
Yes, these are Jude's friends and family -- or, they were. When Jude first left, decided against the idea that he should bring about this alternate end of the world, it was felt less as a turning against his family than turning against this fate. On an intellectual level, he recognized they were the same thing, but on an emotional level, he feared his people more than he dislike them. A year on the run has stirred up some resentment, the myriad inconveniences of nomadic life flicking sand into Jude's oysters. Pearls of anger have flecked around thin motel walls and uncomfortable bus seats.
But it seems revenge enough if he can unravel what he has spent years helping to form. It is as violent as slashing car tires, and no more. What Near is saying is much, much more serious.
"You want me to fight?!" There are surely other considerations -- such as Jude not knowing the limits of his own power, whether he is immortal, bulletproof, fireproof, or hundred proof. But first and foremost he is a magician, a pitch man, and now Near is talking action-movie in his model Ikea room apartment. No? No!
"Near." There is a small amount of water left in the glass on the table. Jude blinks rapidly, swallows around a dry mouth. "I mean -- that's insane."
But it seems revenge enough if he can unravel what he has spent years helping to form. It is as violent as slashing car tires, and no more. What Near is saying is much, much more serious.
"You want me to fight?!" There are surely other considerations -- such as Jude not knowing the limits of his own power, whether he is immortal, bulletproof, fireproof, or hundred proof. But first and foremost he is a magician, a pitch man, and now Near is talking action-movie in his model Ikea room apartment. No? No!
"Near." There is a small amount of water left in the glass on the table. Jude blinks rapidly, swallows around a dry mouth. "I mean -- that's insane."