Deadeye

I am driven to do things. Call it family destiny, or pure self gratification. Whatever you see it as, that's your perception.

But the bottom line of it all is that I will accomplish what my father tried to do years before.

He might have made it, too. If only my mother had survived.

They were kept on the lowest rung, looked down on, even after they gained their freedom. So he figured, he had gifts, she had gifts, and no one was going to look down on them for much longer.

Dad started with a couple of banks. He would sleep well the night before, not troubled with pesky morals like other men, and he would see the job ahead with his third eye. Ran through it a lot, controlling it like the pages of a book. Mama, she didn't need to prepare nearly as much. She could read a brain like it was a grocery list.

And they would go together, faces masked, kill who they had to kill to get what they needed. Money to go to the next step. Means to an end.

The next step was drugs, then blackmail.

They got so powerful, the others had to stop them.

Someone must've figured out to get the king, you had to kill the queen.

Maybe the same person who figured out her power, because they clearly moved without thought. They trapped her like an animal. Imagine that, a work of art like her, treated like an animal! Strung her up before my father and his men could get to them.

Lesson learned by me. Expect your crew to let you down. The people protecting my mother didn't do their jobs.

My father, he kept going for a while, even picked off a few of the men who killed Mama.

They got him by buying who they could, killing who they couldn't, and moving fast.

Now I, as much as it hurts, admire the strategy. But they were stupid for letting me live.

And many have regretted that since, at least for the few minutes they lived after meeting me.

So I'm now here in Devil's Eye. The last part of my plan is falling into place. I sense there's someone here that can do what my parents did, either read minds or see the future.

And my plan is clear. Get him on my side, it would be better for both of us.

Or kill him and fulfill my own destiny.