The bright shade of red was answer enough and the eye stalks glanced down to the clipboard as notes were made.
It refused to be engaged in Jack's ranting, tentacle limbs scurrying past the boy with the same regard that some would give an ant, which was to say none. The unseen hands returned, grasping Jack at the back of his shirt, picking him up and showing him off in all his humiliating glory.
There was a blur of time then, the Void and the unseen hands a swirl of confusing motion until the next thing Jack knew, he was hanging between the metal frame of the guillotine device. On the positive side of things, this meant there was no blade in the guillotine. On the negative, Jack now hung by his ankles, like a pig held up for slaughter only beneath him he could see a deep, wide tub of black, bottomless water.
An eye stalk slid into view, the lidless eye peering at up at him.
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It refused to be engaged in Jack's ranting, tentacle limbs scurrying past the boy with the same regard that some would give an ant, which was to say none. The unseen hands returned, grasping Jack at the back of his shirt, picking him up and showing him off in all his humiliating glory.
There was a blur of time then, the Void and the unseen hands a swirl of confusing motion until the next thing Jack knew, he was hanging between the metal frame of the guillotine device. On the positive side of things, this meant there was no blade in the guillotine. On the negative, Jack now hung by his ankles, like a pig held up for slaughter only beneath him he could see a deep, wide tub of black, bottomless water.
An eye stalk slid into view, the lidless eye peering at up at him.
"You worked for us once."