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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incara" data-source="post: 3454527" data-attributes="member: 51475">My Jack KetchI wonder if you know my husband, Jack Ketch.  Chances are you don’t.  He can be a terribly quiet man.  Well, elf.  And it’s strange, because when you look at him, from the toes of his black leather boots to the tips of his pointed and pierced ears, from his cat-like grace and easy smile, he’s a man that is easily noticed.  You catch those beautiful emerald green eyes and you see that lazy, pleasant smile that’s just touched with the most tantalizing hint of devilry and you’re just caught.I said before that he can be a quiet man.  That’s half the truth, really.  Get to know him and he'll chat with you quite freely.  You'll learn that he loves his little girl and horses and chocolates and, if I haven't exasperated him too much that day, me.  And that conversation will lead into all sorts of things and you'll be happy you took the time to talk to him.And from the way he talks, if you're really observant and you spot these sorts of things, you might catch on that he’s a man who loves literature and perhaps as a young boy, that subject overshadowed all of the others in his schooling.  He obviously wasn’t interested in political philosophy, but that’s another part of his personality.  If he had been, intimate knowledge of political philosophy would have been deadly when combined his charm and the understated elegance of his choice of words.All of this is not to say that he has his head up in the clouds and his nose in a book (though lately, most of the books have been children’s books that he reads to our daughter, who is only a year old and would be content just to be babbled at, and you might say he’s got his head up in the clouds believing that she takes any enjoyment from the story itself).  My husband is a surprisingly practical man.  It’s the sort of practicality that a person develops through relying on himself all his life.  His solutions are always the quickest ones, though not necessarily the easiest or most diplomatic.  He will solve problems with his blade if he thinks it absolutely necessary, though he is not really a violent man.  He just sees the straightest line between two points and if it keeps the people he loves safe, he’s more than willing to consider it.He’s a strong man, my husband.  He doesn’t back down when he knows he’s right.  He doesn’t even back down when he’s afraid.  He holds his ground.  This also means that he can be awfully bull-headed about some things, but as time has gone on, I’ve learned to like that about him.  It didn’t even take very long to learn to like that about him.  He always has good reasons to be stubborn, though he himself often thinks they’re terrible reasons and I have to reassure him that he has nothing to be ashamed about.I realize that I’ve been babbling on for a while now about him and I don’t even feel like I’ve said all that could be said about him.  I don’t even feel like I’ve painted an extremely accurate portrait of him.  Words just aren’t good enough to describe him.  You have to meet him to understand.  And believe me, it’s worth it.</blockquote>

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