Mad World (for Senias/Jean-Michel)

I named this chapter "Mad World" after the song of the same name. My favorite versions were by Gary Jules and the haunting version by Adam Lambert. This song and its presentation are perfect for the Dragon Tasker's state of mind. He's losing his grip on who he is and his place in life. The villain has flipped his duty upside down so many times/antagonist and by the civilization that has grown up around him. He's lost. He's very close to trying to go to the stars at this point (letting himself die). I hope I could convey this in the chapter. 

Taskers were not like regular Crimson agents. They didn’t fit into any specific classification of duty. They were the invisible ones that came around and handled what the normal agents couldn’t handle; what the mundane human authorities had no business handling.

I believe this one was a restatement of something we were showing at the time... so we cut it. 

He felt his arms tugged and he forced himself not to pull back or fight it. They were clumsy; inexperienced. All of them were. A bunch of people trained in suburban karate classes as kids who were not much more than overconfident brawlers. He took note of some of the guns.  

That’s what was wrong with creating too many vampires. They had no idea what they were doing or who they were doing it to. They had a head rush of power and they got high off of it as often as they could. They hadn’t even stopped to think about how he’d gotten into their cozy little side of the world. They were too impressed with their own handy-work in grabbing the attention of someone important. The Tasker was quite pleased to let them continue. 

I believe we got across the idea that Jean-Michel found these vampires detestable. So reiterating it was not necessary. 

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