Jay Gatsby (gatz) wrote in spinningcompass, @ 2013-12-11 23:03:00 |
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Entry tags: | !open, !plot |
Who? Jay Gatsby and OPEN
Where? The pub
When? This evening
What? Jay discovers he has an unexpected power.
Open? Yes
Rating? Low, I think.
The day had been perfectly ordinary, and Jay had no reason to expect that anything strange was about to happen to him. He had spent the day reading, mostly, then tidying up around the townhouse so that Ramses and Calleigh wouldn't have too much to do, considering how busy they had to be with the new twins in the house.
Simply for want of something more to do, Gatsby had headed down to the bar, to see if anyone fancied one of his cocktails. The supermarkets had been stocked, so he'd arrived with a cart full of fruit juices, fresh lemons, limes and oranges. They would make all the difference to the taste.
He was condensing the spirits into fewer bottles, it was a perfectly normal thing to do- but then something was happening. Where his right hand touched a bottle of vodka, a frost has started to form. His hand wasn't cold. He stared at it for a moment, and then rubbed the glass, assuming it was just colder in the room than he imagined. But that made it worse- the whole bottle frosting up, the layer of ice hardening over the surface of the glass, a creaking sound and then- the glass smashed, sending the vodka pouring all over the floor.
Jay stared at the floor in horror, and then looked to his hand, expecting it to be covered in blood, but there was nothing except a strange frost that quickly thawed.
What the hell was going on?!