Unstable bonds…
In chemistry, they’re combinations of chemicals that, when put together, you can wind up losing a few fingers, a limb, or even your life.
I see it when I look at CJ, his brother Jackson, and that old dog Harry. Three men form an unstable bond that all it would take is a simple wafting breeze and… boom! They’ll turn each other into a crater in the middle of that ring.
They’ve all been at each other’s throats for almost a year. Attano caused now Sheriff Cade to shoot a man live in front of all of Arcadia. Cade tried to send Attano back to Deathrow to hunt for CJ. While the first chance Harold and CJ’s own papa kidnap the kid. It makes me happy that my closest bond is a cat named Fumes.
What happened to you CJ, you were a diehard for the cause of our freedom, Cade you were a man of purpose and you were always a “by the book” type, Attano was a man of purpose, focused, driven, and intimidating. You’re three men who’ve lost your edge by letting emotion take control of you.
Now you’ve become victims of your own emotions. Driven by the irrational and uncontrollable. Letting your thalamus lead you around and become the decision center for your brains and with all the built-up angst you have with each other the scales are perfectly balanced inside the vacuum you’ve all existed in for too long.
This weekend that vacuum is removed and that breeze will come wafting and when they breathe it in those unstable bonds will collapse around them. The explosion will be fantastic. Three very violent men at each other’s throats once more.
Because all it takes is one whiff of what I have planned for you three. I will be your self-destruction. I will bring the hate you all once had for each other bubbling back to the surface. Like the putrid smell of your rotting relationship.
But it will also allow me a chance to test a thesis of mine… what happens when you turn a hydra against itself? Because you’re a three-headed monster which I cannot allow to stand. Because we know if you’re allowed to continue with the recent power and momentum that you have you’re not going to go away.
I’m going to have to force you back into the darkness. Jackson, back into hiding in that cushy little eagle’s perch. CJ, you traitor because that’s the operative word for all of you, traitor… CJ you betrayed the Uprising and our cause in our moment of victory, Attano’s gone into business for himself, along with Cade who while picking up the badge has up until now been nothing but a man who chafed against the wills of Zeus.
And I’ll be sure to prove my worth, I shall spare no traitor. If my mask must become the allegory for the executioner then so be it. You’ll all find out, in the end, everything dies.