Julian

Just a brief delve into the mind of a character for a book in the works. Trying to get a feel for his character.

The name I’ve been using for awhile now is Julian. Obviously, this isn’t my real name. Sometimes I forget which one of the many names I’ve used is a real one…Yet, it doesn’t really matter does it? For all reasons and purposes, Julian is as real a name for me as the others are. It’s all the same. Rather, I’m still the same.

 

There is a reason for focusing on the name I carry. It is a curse, a taxing thing to have to go under a pseudonym that changes when needed. Lately, that has been all too often. Whenever one of them nears my location, my name changes, the place I live changes, and I continue hiding like a coward. Fleeing.

 

All because no one shared my vision. They didn’t realize that those I decimated needed to cease their existence before the world was cast into a burning hell. The others of my race, those simple minded, conniving elders, they deserved death, and I am hunted for doling out such justice. The winged fools I am ashamed to share the same blood with want me dead.

 

They are blind.

 

What does it matter now, however? My own wings are clean now, the blood groomed from the feathers long ago. Not a drop of the warm fluids remains upon my skin or tangled in my silvery hair either. These pale hands with their skeletal fingers are completely washed and polished to alabaster quality.

 

 

I did what I had to do. And damned are those that condemn me for it while they themselves are wrapped up in ignorance of the world around them. They force me to run, to fly, to shoot down those who get too close until I can prove why I had to do it.

 

Maybe I should have wiped out more of them than I did. It is an admirable goal. Wipe out the rest so the ideals of those who have already been assassinated do not live on in the younger generation. Then, with them gone, so should my own life end.

 

It’s a beautiful plan. Simply breathtaking in it’s simplicity.

 

After all, this life means nothing once the goal is completed.

Reviews

[V. Lucien Maier]

nice setup, leaves the reader curious about more. but now the hard part. what is the rest of the story.