11-27-2024, 05:07 AM
Yes, it was intentional. Jude isn't just inhuman in that queer personality way, that sense that he has been assembled in imitation of a person but not well-enough. He's inhuman in the sense of a twisted relationship to his body and life itself. Near must have also forgotten that in the few hours Jude spent on at the reaches, the gash on Jude's hand vanished entirely. Perhaps that creepy resilience was overshadowed by Jude's later disappearing act.
Jude goes tipping forward with the yank, but he maintains his balance and pulls his arm free of Near's grasp. Clutching his own wrist, he grumbles wordlessly and grabs a dishtowel hanging off a little rack near the sink. Pain is temporary, as is life, but Jude resents performing for someone who surely is not going to appreciate the wonder of what he's done. And he isn't even going to get dinner out of this!
Moments into his silent lament, he notices that something is happening around Near. That -- that should not be happening. Whatever is happening around Near should not be happening. Jude's thick blonde eyebrows knit together. Near is panicking; Jude, not yet. He does, however, crouch and retrieve the knife.
"What are you doing?" He steps back as the fissures spiderweb out towards him. "You shouldn't be able to do that." Part of Jude thinks that now is the time to make his exit. Yet he is hypnotized by whatever unexpected thing is occurring in Near's kitchen. It feels like something worthwhile is finally happening.
Jude goes tipping forward with the yank, but he maintains his balance and pulls his arm free of Near's grasp. Clutching his own wrist, he grumbles wordlessly and grabs a dishtowel hanging off a little rack near the sink. Pain is temporary, as is life, but Jude resents performing for someone who surely is not going to appreciate the wonder of what he's done. And he isn't even going to get dinner out of this!
Moments into his silent lament, he notices that something is happening around Near. That -- that should not be happening. Whatever is happening around Near should not be happening. Jude's thick blonde eyebrows knit together. Near is panicking; Jude, not yet. He does, however, crouch and retrieve the knife.
"What are you doing?" He steps back as the fissures spiderweb out towards him. "You shouldn't be able to do that." Part of Jude thinks that now is the time to make his exit. Yet he is hypnotized by whatever unexpected thing is occurring in Near's kitchen. It feels like something worthwhile is finally happening.