Jack's face fell at the prompting, but he couldn't skirt around the issue with such a direct request and so slowly, he began to recount the story. He purposefully left Oliver unnamed, but explained how someone for whom Jack was concerned over their well being had been doing dangerous and potentially deadly things, that the spirit had taken him away from the city. How he'd kept him there when it was clear that this person had wanted to leave, but he was still unstable; the blizzard Jack had inadvertently conjured notwithstanding.
Jack also relayed (again, in general terms that would not give Oliver's identity away) how he'd been told that this person had been kidnapped before with dire results, but how Jack could see fear in him for trying to be someone he couldn't be. And that it had reminded him terribly of Pitch, because fear left unchecked could become a monstrous thing like the Boogeyman had proven.
And he dutifully Oliver's escape attempt, from the attack with the fire embers to the way he'd had a knife to his throat, hand automatically coming up to brush over the pale scar there as he spoke -- though he was careful to stress that the cut had not been made by his captive but through his own action.
After that he falls quiet for a moment, though it's obvious he has more to say, and finally he adds that others who'd found out (like Damian, though Jack didn't call him by name) had condemned what he'd done, that it felt like that day in the English park when he'd emerged from Pitch's lair and discovered that he'd made things worse without knowing it.
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Jack also relayed (again, in general terms that would not give Oliver's identity away) how he'd been told that this person had been kidnapped before with dire results, but how Jack could see fear in him for trying to be someone he couldn't be. And that it had reminded him terribly of Pitch, because fear left unchecked could become a monstrous thing like the Boogeyman had proven.
And he dutifully Oliver's escape attempt, from the attack with the fire embers to the way he'd had a knife to his throat, hand automatically coming up to brush over the pale scar there as he spoke -- though he was careful to stress that the cut had not been made by his captive but through his own action.
After that he falls quiet for a moment, though it's obvious he has more to say, and finally he adds that others who'd found out (like Damian, though Jack didn't call him by name) had condemned what he'd done, that it felt like that day in the English park when he'd emerged from Pitch's lair and discovered that he'd made things worse without knowing it.