1. What is your name? What name do you use?
Cassandra Jainkul. Pretty much everyone calls me Cass, except my
mom and some of my aunts, and most of them can’t say Cassandra very well
anyway, at least on my dad’s side of the family. When I was a kid, it was
usually Cassie, but that changed when I was like twelve.
2. What do you look like? (Include height, weight, hair, eyes,
skin, apparent age, and distinguishing features)
Well, I’m a total mutt. My dad was Thai, but my mom was a
mix-mash of Scottish, and she claims
Ethiopian, but all of my aunts say that our family has been in America on that
side for like three generations at least. She’s kind of little, smaller than
me. Not like I’m super tall or anything, I’m like 5’4”, but she’s a total
shrimp, only like 5’ tall. I have brown eyes. I’m twenty-nine, like Allie...we
were in the same grade in school the whole time we were kids. I have this
really ugly scar on my face now, from being kidnapped by Terian with Revik and
Jon. Allie would say I’ve still got ‘va-voom’ but it’s pretty hard to tell
here, in Seertown, since they hit on everyone here, and I’m new, so fresh meat.
3. How do you dress most of the time?
Well, waaaay better than Allie, that’s for sure. I used to have
to make her go shopping with me, back in San Francisco. I’ve had to get a
little more creative up here in Seertown, since we’re in the middle of friggin’
nowhere in the Himalayas. But it’s kind of a tourist town, so I can still get
some cool stuff, but yeah, it feels like a long camping trip up here. I’m
looking forward to getting back to civilization, even though Revik, Allie’s
husband, let me go on a spree with his credit card one day. Man, that guy’s
tight, though. Allie wasn’t kidding when she called Revik ‘tighter than a
weasel’s a-hole’ when it comes to money. Jeez. That would drive me crazy,
personally, but she’s still in that whole honeymoon stage thing, so she just
thinks it’s cute. Wow. Yeah, if that’s love, I’ll pass...
4. Do you own a car? Describe it.
I had this horrible beater in San Francisco for awhile, a lime
green toyota that used to backfire at the funniest times. It was great for just
a get around town car...well, until the water-pump died and then the engine
blew up because the temperature thingy went into the red. After that, I pretty
much took the bus, at least until the whole thing went down with Allie being a
seer and me and Jon getting kidnapped by Terian. I was saving up for a new car,
though...I was going to get convertible. I know, I know, convertibles are a
waste in San Francisco, but heck. You only live once, right?
5. What hobbies do you have?
Well, I dabble a bit in the art thing, but not like Allie or
anything. I used to sing in a rock band, back in my early twenties. It was
awesome! We wore these totally crazy outfits, like babydoll dresses with cones
on our bras and fake snake tails and wings. We mostly played noise...like
totally off-kilter industrial stuff. That was with my boyfriend, Jake. He was
the drummer. He was pretty brilliant though...he came up with our name, the
Angels of Ra. I have no idea if he even knew who Ra was, but it didn’t really
matter. We were pretty much just into the weird make up and painting our sets
with creepy black-light landscapes for raves...
6. Are you dating anyone right now? If so, who?
Well, yeah, I’m dating this seer named Chandre...I call her Chan,
so does Allie. Yeah, sometimes I date girls. Chan’s pretty intense. She was,
like, persistent, you know? And despite all the crazy stereotypes about seers
being into casual sex and nymphos or whatever, she’s, like...possessive. It’s
actually kind of too much sometimes, but she’s really cool. She’s like this
badass hunter chick, and works as an infiltrator, like Revik, Allie’s husband.
She’s really hot, too. Like...all muscle, but really pretty too, you know?
7. What’s your favorite movie of all time? Book?
Hmmm...movie. I might have to go with Dr. Strangelove. I think
me and Allie watched that like three hundred times in high school, that and
Young Frankenstein. ‘There wolf...there castle...’ You know, that one. Book? I
don’t know. I read a lot of Stephen King.
8. What is your view of authority, and what event most affected it?
Well, if you knew my parents, you probably wouldn’t have to ask
the second half of that. Let’s just say, I don’t like being told what to do.
Allie says I’ve got an ‘endless affinity for the hopeless case.’ Ha. Like she’s
one to talk! I do tend to root for the underdog, though. I don’t like being
told what to do, but I don’t like seeing anyone else getting pushed around,
either.
9. What about you is heroic?
Me? I have no idea. I’m one of those people who doesn’t sit on
the sidelines, I guess. I mean, I guess I could have gone back to my life in
San Francisco after that whole thing with Terian...unlike Jon, I doubt anyone
would have bothered with me, with Allie gone. I could have gone back to my old
life, and just let her and Jon come her to India without me, and gotten therapy
or whatever else and tried to forget about the seers. But I just couldn’t, you know? I want to make a
difference. That’s kind of heroic, isn’t it?
10.
Of what benefit could
you be to the current group?
I think Allie needs me. Maybe more than she realizes all the
time. She’s too danged serious, for one thing. But she also tends to kind of
lose perspective when it comes to Revik. She needs both of us...me and Jon.
Jon’s like, the voice of Buddha or whatever. He’s the nice guy. I’m more the
bitch, I guess, but I’m also the voice of reality. Allie sometimes just needs
to get her head out of the clouds, you know? See things as they are. I think
I’m like the splash of water to the face for her sometimes. Not like she’s
spacey or whatever, she’s not...but she worries about EVERYTHING, and like, you
can’t fix the world single-handed, you know? You can’t fix everything.
Sometimes, you just got to have a beer and let it all go for a night.
Sometimes, you just have to look at your husband and think, “he’s hot. I’m
taking him home right now,” and not get all angsty about stuff from his past or
stuff going on in the seer world or whatever else. You know? Sometimes, it’s
just not that complicated. And sometimes it is, and you have to make it simple
anyway.
