Post by Gifted on Feb 27, 2018 14:48:46 GMT -5
Sure enough, half an hour later, the truck pulled up.
The boy who got out of the truck was very different from the Rook who had been taken prisoner. His old but generally well kept suit was in tatters, torn and ill-kept with the hat and tie missing. He had found a long, dark jacket to throw overtop to make him seem less disheveled, and a hood he'd kept up to hide his face. That was where Kenny saw the most change.
It wasn't just his far darker expression, like what he'd seen in the government facility still haunted him. It wasn't his blonde hair that was unkept, messy and down to his cheekbones that he was so clearly trying to hide. It was what the government experiments had done to his face that he was trying to keep the people around them from noticing.
Something under his skin glowed with a blue light. It was faint, but it was there, crisscrossing around his face like his veins were glowing, or like his face was made of cracked plaster with a blue light shining behind it. Three small blue lights were visible in the iris of each of his eyes in a triangle shape. The scars from whatever operation did this to him followed the same path of some of the lights under his skin on his forehead. Kenny saw Rook get out of the truck and lean up against the pickup, hand pressed against his head like it hurt.
With how much Rook had changed, it was shocking that the child he arrived with looked so normal. A twelve year old boy hopped out the back door of the truck, glancing as if to make sure Rook was still there before looking around with interest. He was wearing a simple white shirt with long sleeves and khaki pants, but the little of him that was visible appeared fine. "It's so quiet." He said aloud.
Jade got out of the truck from the back on the opposite side of the little boy. She was clearly concerned about Rook as well, and paid the boy very little mind.
The boy who got out of the truck was very different from the Rook who had been taken prisoner. His old but generally well kept suit was in tatters, torn and ill-kept with the hat and tie missing. He had found a long, dark jacket to throw overtop to make him seem less disheveled, and a hood he'd kept up to hide his face. That was where Kenny saw the most change.
It wasn't just his far darker expression, like what he'd seen in the government facility still haunted him. It wasn't his blonde hair that was unkept, messy and down to his cheekbones that he was so clearly trying to hide. It was what the government experiments had done to his face that he was trying to keep the people around them from noticing.
Something under his skin glowed with a blue light. It was faint, but it was there, crisscrossing around his face like his veins were glowing, or like his face was made of cracked plaster with a blue light shining behind it. Three small blue lights were visible in the iris of each of his eyes in a triangle shape. The scars from whatever operation did this to him followed the same path of some of the lights under his skin on his forehead. Kenny saw Rook get out of the truck and lean up against the pickup, hand pressed against his head like it hurt.
With how much Rook had changed, it was shocking that the child he arrived with looked so normal. A twelve year old boy hopped out the back door of the truck, glancing as if to make sure Rook was still there before looking around with interest. He was wearing a simple white shirt with long sleeves and khaki pants, but the little of him that was visible appeared fine. "It's so quiet." He said aloud.
Jade got out of the truck from the back on the opposite side of the little boy. She was clearly concerned about Rook as well, and paid the boy very little mind.
