@jokezilla gets whatever this is-
This night is unusually peaceful, mad dog has been sated (although the satisfaction never lasts) by the doctors liquid terror, and Crane has left him to his own devices while he looks for a book that he was sure he had ‘acquired’ only a week before...where was the damn thing...?
(Hideout is a dizzying maze of volumes, stacked in towering columns next to shelves that strain under the weight of their contents, don’t touch them, lest you draw his ire.)
Needed tome is not found, but- A pistol clatters to the floor as the shifting of a box knocks loose several novels.
A pause. Gaze locks on the weapon.
Do you remember the last time you held this? Do you remember the sound of the shot? The one that ended your career, birthed the monster spawned under southern sun? Do you remember the sound of a shattering vase, Jonathan Crane? Your last words?
' 𝙻𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚗! '
Gloved hands retrieve the object, gently, like the fine china you weren’t allowed to touch, kept away for some hypothetical ‘company’ that never seemed to find the time to drop by that crumbing house.
“...Jack?” Voice is soft in a way rarely allowed. Questioning, shifts to an order before mad dog scents blood. “Come here, you’re needed.” Although he isn’t, really. In reality there is merely a story to tell (an axe to grind), and a monologue that is only such if performer has an audience.
“I think...you’ll find this interesting.”