Interacting with [@A Tattooed Girl], McKenna Avery Knowles


A few thoughts bolted through Cole’s head at first sight of McKenna and her discovery. It seemed bizarre, as he first stepped into the cabin section that someone had apparently taken the time to mark the deceased. The images instantly disgusted him and his lips pursed tightly as his gaze scanned toward the woman and the child who had apparently been missed by their life or death notice agent. “What the fuck is wrong with people…” He mumbled. Before taking notice of the young survivor, Cole immediately locked on to the fact that his rescuer had already retrieved part of her weapons cache and donned it very nonchalantly. He was piecing things together fairly efficiently in his head, but decided to hold his tongue in front of the child. However, he doubted the other passengers would share in his consideration. She seemed to have good rapport in her tone with him and mentioned that she had once been a doctor in the “military”. [i]Who the hell knows what that means.[/i] He thought to himself. [i]Guess we’ll find out soon enough.[/i]

Still ignoring the weapons, Cole knelt down next to the pair as she did her work on his arm. “Just hang on buddy.” He said in as patriarchal a tone as he could summon. He was a flyer, not a fighter. Blood and gore were not his forte and as his eyes scanned around he had to fight a certain sense of revulsion particularly with the sight of those marked with the “X”. They were his passengers. He knew the image would probably never leave him.

Being honest with himself, Cole was weary of speaking with her, but other than Xi, he felt instinctively that she was the most competent person that had survived among the passengers. He ran a hand over his face and shifted the tired old hat on his head a little to scratch around his brow before turning so that his voice projected away from the child’s hearing. “When you finish up here and take him out, I want you to take a good look at that cargo door and the rear of the plane.” He said very calmly.