“Sometimes,” Jack started, pausing as if he was constructing the thought as he spoke it, “I like to imagine the impact I’ve made on the world. What possible realities am I pruning, what events am I setting in motion, each time I take a life?
I feel like Dinah would have a couple things to say about that.
Maybe Jack being alive doesn’t cause the future calamity to move ahead so much as allow him to kill someone who would’ve been crucial to postponing it? Then again, that seems less reliable, and there should be plenty of timelines where he wouldn’t end up doing that.
If the flap of a butterfly’s wing can alter the course of a hurricane, what am I doing when I take a human life? The life of a person who interacts with dozens of people every day, who would have a career, romance, children?”
Some people murder because they don’t care about or realize the value of a human life and the impact a single person other than themself can have.
Jack seems to murder because he does.
Tears ran down Theo’s face. He clutched Aster tight.
“Can you tell me who you are, Kaiser’s boy? What am I doing to reality when I open you up from cock to chin and let your entrails spill onto the floor?”
Entrails. I think I predicted Jack having a thing for removing internal organs, based on Jack the Ripper’s M.O.
How do you answer something like this, though?
“I-I don’t know,” Theo said, his voice quiet.
Besides that, of course.
“Don’t shut down on me, now. Here, I’ll make you a deal. If you give me a good answer, I’ll make it quick. Thrust my knife right through the center of your brain. It’ll be like flicking a light switch. You just stop, and there’ll be no pain. It’ll be as dignified as death can be.”
I guess… wouldn’t you need to make it quick anyway, though, before Purity could step in to stop you?
Although I guess trying to kill Aster and Theo while fighting Purity would add to the unpredictability.
Krixwell Liveblogs 