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- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per day
- Multiple posts per week
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Online Availability
- On fairly regularly, every day. I'll notice a PM almost immediately. Replies come randomly.
- Writing Levels
- Adept
- Advanced
- Preferred Character Gender
- Primarily Prefer Male
- No Preferences
- Genres
- High fantasy is my personal favorite, followed closely by modern fantasy and post-apocalyptic, but I can happily play in any genre if the plot is good enough.
Jae had wrapped himself in two layers of thick coats, heavy pants, winter gloves and hat, and had a blanket wrapped pack between him and the cold metal of the freight train, but the wind still managed to chill him right to the bone. He'd tucked himself into the back of an open-top coal car, under the overhang, near where it connected to the next car in the train. Yet, despite the seeming protection of the metal around him, the wind still managed to eddie into the recessed area, buffeting him around in time to the rhythmic clacking of the train wheels.
Jae had freighthopped is way from Portland to Denver to Kansas City, and the train he was currently on was now drawing close to Chicago. His departure from Portland had been far from planned, as it had been driven almost entirely by a need to simply get away, as far and as quickly as possible. He wasn't even sure how far he was going, but the fact that he'd eaten his last granola bar yesterday meant he was going to have to stop moving whenever this train did, and start begging in front of the nearest grocery store.
Jae's milky eyes roamed vaguely in front of him, while his fingers tapped out a slow beat on his own leg and he tried to ignore the scattered pieces of conversations that floated about him.
...мү ∂αυgнтεя нαs sυcн α sωεεт тσσтн. αη∂ ι ωσяяү ιғ sнε кεερs gσιηg тнιs ωαү, sнε's gσιηg тσ εη∂ υρ sσ нεαvү. ι'vε αsкε∂ нεя ∂α∂ тσ…
ᕼEY! YOᑌ ᑕᗩᑎ'T ᗷE Iᑎ ᕼEᖇE!
Jae flinched at the last voice, which echoed so loudly he was tempted to press his gloved hands to his ears. Practice, stubbornness, and fear kept him from doing more than twitching, but a wrinkle marred his brow all the same.
He'd been told growing up, more times than he could count, that the voices were only in his head. That he had to ignore them, unless he could see the person speaking. That the things he saw were nothing but delusions, even when they came true hours, days, weeks, months, or even years later. But Jae knew he wasn't insane. He knew the things he saw and heard were real, even if no one else did. He saw the past, or the future, carried in the ephemeral memories of the world and conveyed to him whenever he touched bare skin. The conversations, heard by the wind and then scattered with the breeze, to brush up against his face.
That's how he knew, he just knew, that when this train slowed to a halt at the rail hub on the outskirts of Chicago, there was going to be a railway detective to spot him when the train slowed enough for him to disembark. It seemed like the kind of thing he should have been able to avoid, given that he knew it was coming, but Jae had already long since found that he'd never be able to avoid something he heard or saw. The memories of the future were immutable, having already taken into account whatever actions he decided to take after hearing them. It was far easier for him to not try and fight it.
Instead, he tugged at the sleeve of his coats, exposing the bare skin of his forearm to the cold air. The voices got louder, more demanding, but he narrowed his half-blind eyes and focused on what he wanted to know. Gradually, images began to form before his eyes.
No, Jae wouldn't run. Instead, he'd prepare.
Jae had freighthopped is way from Portland to Denver to Kansas City, and the train he was currently on was now drawing close to Chicago. His departure from Portland had been far from planned, as it had been driven almost entirely by a need to simply get away, as far and as quickly as possible. He wasn't even sure how far he was going, but the fact that he'd eaten his last granola bar yesterday meant he was going to have to stop moving whenever this train did, and start begging in front of the nearest grocery store.
Jae's milky eyes roamed vaguely in front of him, while his fingers tapped out a slow beat on his own leg and he tried to ignore the scattered pieces of conversations that floated about him.
...мү ∂αυgнтεя нαs sυcн α sωεεт тσσтн. αη∂ ι ωσяяү ιғ sнε кεερs gσιηg тнιs ωαү, sнε's gσιηg тσ εη∂ υρ sσ нεαvү. ι'vε αsкε∂ нεя ∂α∂ тσ…
… $ѳѫё gаягїc апд fяч їт; тнёп адд gїпgёя. Йѳщ чѳц cцт $ѳѫё ѫїпт гёаѵё$ щнїcн аcтцаггч gїѵё$ чѳц тнё fгаѵѳя…
...ᗰᗩᑎ Ꭵ 丅ᗴᒪᒪ Ƴᗩ, Ǥᗝ ᖴᗝᖇ ᗰᑌ丅ᑌᗩᒪ ᖴᑌᑎᗪᔕ. 丅ᕼᗴᖇᗴ ᗩᖇᗴ 丅ᗯᗝ 丅Ƴᑭᗴᔕ, ᗴɊᑌᎥ丅Ƴ ᗩᑎᗪ ᗪᗴᗷ丅 ᖴᑌᑎᗪᔕ. ᑎᗝ ᖇᎥᔕᛕ ᗩ丅 ᗩᒪᒪ, Ꭵ 丅ᗴᒪᒪ Ƴᗩ….
...ƈօʍɛ օռ, ֆɦɛ ɨֆ ɮɛɛռ աօʀᏦɨռɢ ɦɛʀɛ ʄօʀ ʄօʊʀ ʏɛǟʀֆ, ֆɦɛ ƈǟռ ǟʄʄօʀɖ Ꮖօ քǟʏ ʄօʀ ǟ ʍǟɨɖ…ᕼEY! YOᑌ ᑕᗩᑎ'T ᗷE Iᑎ ᕼEᖇE!
Jae flinched at the last voice, which echoed so loudly he was tempted to press his gloved hands to his ears. Practice, stubbornness, and fear kept him from doing more than twitching, but a wrinkle marred his brow all the same.
He'd been told growing up, more times than he could count, that the voices were only in his head. That he had to ignore them, unless he could see the person speaking. That the things he saw were nothing but delusions, even when they came true hours, days, weeks, months, or even years later. But Jae knew he wasn't insane. He knew the things he saw and heard were real, even if no one else did. He saw the past, or the future, carried in the ephemeral memories of the world and conveyed to him whenever he touched bare skin. The conversations, heard by the wind and then scattered with the breeze, to brush up against his face.
That's how he knew, he just knew, that when this train slowed to a halt at the rail hub on the outskirts of Chicago, there was going to be a railway detective to spot him when the train slowed enough for him to disembark. It seemed like the kind of thing he should have been able to avoid, given that he knew it was coming, but Jae had already long since found that he'd never be able to avoid something he heard or saw. The memories of the future were immutable, having already taken into account whatever actions he decided to take after hearing them. It was far easier for him to not try and fight it.
Instead, he tugged at the sleeve of his coats, exposing the bare skin of his forearm to the cold air. The voices got louder, more demanding, but he narrowed his half-blind eyes and focused on what he wanted to know. Gradually, images began to form before his eyes.
No, Jae wouldn't run. Instead, he'd prepare.