once, you know, i met the one who steals memories. surprisingly, though, he didn't steal mine. i guess it has to happen eventually, right? a blogger involved with the higher-ups who meets the blind man and isn't affected?
no, he took someone else's memories, i think. i'm not sure whose.
do you suppose it gets tiresome eventually? i mean, only a few people are gifted with the blind man's memories, so i assume he's got a lot to himself. so very much human knowledge, emotions, opinions...
that's a lot of bullshit to deal with.
actually, come to think of it, that's the only supernatural encounter i ever had in person, prior to joining the night shop. the other, as you may have suspected, was jack. though i guess i've only mentioned his being the
see, i've been interested in magic since i was very young. first stage magic, then the occult. when i met jack, well, you can guess how that went down. pretty quickly, i struck a deal, and now i know things that have... proved useful.
i'm just waiting for things to go south. they always do when you make a deal with jack.
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Well at least you know that. I didn't know that when I first met him... It did not go well, though I guess death was the alternative.
ReplyDeleteoh, i didn't either at the time. i was knowledgeable, but in all the wrong places. which duke of hell is which doesn't mean much in the real world, as it happens.
DeleteYou tried stabbing him? It was quite cathartic to me even if it didn't seem to bother him much.
Deleteactually, no. something tells me stabbing one's employer isn't exactly the key to career stability.
DeleteMaybe if you stab him enough you get to be the new Jack of All... Maybe Jack of All is just another Asher Lyall... You ever think of that? No of course you didn't... Get stabbing.
Deleteit's nice to have a voice of reason around here.
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