Saturday, October 29, 2011

Sunset Colony

   Jack had intended to drop off the passengers on the sunset island and continue onwards alone, but instead he'd moored his boat and joined them, watching their progress.  The colony was coming along nicely; the buildings were springing up almost faster than Jack could acrobatically scale them.

   It was upon one of these buildings, a medium-sized, two-story cottage, that Jack was perched when he spied the enormous stone cathedral across an open patch of dirt.  He sprang from the building and executed a momentum-breaking somersault that blended seamlessly into a sprint toward the structure.

   He arrived and saw that they had built an enormous stone statue in his honor on the steps to the cathedral.  The sculptors had taken artistic liberties with his body structure and crafted a strong torso and thick legs.  One hand lay at his side, the other raised toward the sky with an open palm.  Slung around his chest like a bandolier was a thick chain.  His head flickered between two states, one being affixed properly to his neck and the other being held by the upward palm.  Together, the chain and the flickering head were meant to symbolize something Jack wasn't aware of.  Below, Jack noticed a toppled statue of his mentor from the Old World, LaDinci.