TELL ME WHO I AM // jack, vale, and gore

[j a c k .]

WINTER CANNOT BE CHAINED

— THE FIRST FROST IS OVER, BUT IT WILL NEVER LEAVE US

The easiest spell was one cast on someone willing.

Crows part and caw in warning- but even they refuse to step closer towards the small frame of the aspect. Some semblance of leashed control exhaling in relief at the sight. Carrion had such a sour taste, but the sweet blood and satisfaction of an easy execution was enough to settle the apatite. Once avaricious tempered in time, Jack's body slumber in relief even among the company of a murder, the body underneath his paws was warm and tantalizing. blood coated his ice like a welcome home.

He felt full, satisfied.

unnerved.

To eat another, someone with sentience and willing participate in the enjoyment of it's death. Jack had made peace with being a murderer since Silent's reign. Back when he was eager and left alone, it wasn't an unfamiliar feeling- as his accomplishment rang hollow even in the eve of the day. The crows around him shuffling in wait for something and jack pulled back. Once red fur stained red and dripping. Sinew caught between teeth.

Jack felt hollow, as the vermin crawled between the crevices of his logic and settled.

Suddenly, he felt it

a ticking.

a soft tap that echoed in his head, and the presence, was what set off.

Careful frost in his bones froze his body like ice on a lake, shooting between limbs and he struggled suddenly- to make it stop. A force of nature under the leash of another- he pulled, tugged- trashed. But where was a parasite but inside. Crawling between what Jack once saw joy in fading in the other's eyes- logic & reason gone, Jack took to instict. Something distictly not fa, but something darker.

It called like a tundra in his veins, and he was swept under the tide of it.

Shifting was a painful sensation, even as the adrenalin pumped through his soft frame. Ice caught, and froze the nearby water completly. ice branching from between now scalled paws as Jack's form grew in size. Doubled, quadrupled, until a being as large as the corpse god's form shook the very air, shifting with fur scattering. The once murder caught in the ice the few that were too slow to not flee at the sight of the encroaching ice.

Vey... were there. Presence inside his mind and shadowing every action. He felt it at each breath, rattle that stung with each inhale of the hot humid air. "[glow=#687C97,2,300][glow=red,2,300]Cease this[/glow][/glow]" Came out of his throat like glass. Raw and gutteral. Ice colored pinpricks in a sea of maroon red.  "[glow=#687C97,2,300][glow=red,2,300]you know not what you temper with- [u]CEASE[/glow][/glow]"

It came out as a roar into the air- or did it? Jack's body was no longer his own. A body, a spirit shared. Inhabited the scales and the winter that coiled just under his scales. Each careful breath ragged but under the control of- who?

/ full permission to powerplay [member=3123]vale[/member]