05-28-2009, 01:30 AM
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She flopped back, comforting her spine against the soft cushioning of the fresh spring grass and smiled and mused about whatever came to her mind, still the daydreamer she'd been as a child in contrast of her slightly more serious brother. It was no wonder that he and Tyrone had gotten along a little bit better; Ty had been more impressionable, and one way or another followed a bit in Jefferson's gimpy footsteps, but Skylar had always been an idealist and free-spirit like her grandmother. Jefferson chose not to answer her queries on happy endings at first, but frowned when Iskata's name came up in conversation. So she didn't know... perhaps it had been for the best.
She flopped back, comforting her spine against the soft cushioning of the fresh spring grass and smiled and mused about whatever came to her mind, still the daydreamer she'd been as a child in contrast of her slightly more serious brother. It was no wonder that he and Tyrone had gotten along a little bit better; Ty had been more impressionable, and one way or another followed a bit in Jefferson's gimpy footsteps, but Skylar had always been an idealist and free-spirit like her grandmother. Jefferson chose not to answer her queries on happy endings at first, but frowned when Iskata's name came up in conversation. So she didn't know... perhaps it had been for the best.
Stiffening, the cyclops redirected his one-eyed gaze forward, following the wind into the distance. "Iskata is dead," he said, blunt and to the point. If she was to hear it from someone, better it was he and not DaVinci. The silver-furred idiot would have done something wrong in telling Skylar, be it how it was presented or something similar. She and Iskata had been close, after all, and the cards needed to be thrown on the table without room for misinterpretation. "Happy endings are for the ignorant," he finished. The words of a "smart, miserable" man. He wouldn't have preferred being any other way, after the things he'd done. "Happy endings happen when the miserable are accustomed to misery."