mayday we're going down

Jack owns an old chess set, bequeathed to him by his grandfather, and he awakes one moring to find Kiryu barely dressed and admiring the little pieces. At first the vampire thinks he's just interested in their worth; they board is inlaid with onyx and ivory and the pieces themselves are carved in ornate designs and set with precious stones. Yet, as the mara realizes he's awake he comes to look at him with a curious expression.

"You play?"

Jack nods once. "Do you?"

Kiryu shakes his head and returns to the little knight, spinning it round. Jack, settling next to him, plucks the piece out of his fingers and sets it back on the board. He begins to explain the strange shape in which it moves but the mara is quick to cut him off, says that everyone knows that much. He turns the board around, until the black king rests just in front of him. Jack watches him trace the delicate blue lines of the sovereign piece and finds it somehow appropriate.

"If you know how they move, then you know how to play." The vampire says after a considerable silence.

Kiryu merely glances at him out of the corner of his eye, then motions to the serpentine form of the white king.




( put him together again... )