Inept aviator
Marcus is one of those rare people who successfully moved to the island by falling out of the sky. Of course we get a few people every year who move permanently to the island by falling out of the sky in a way that might be described as less successful. Unless of course you consider attaining a jam-like appearance to be the height of success.
Marcus came to us during a blood rain. It’s rare in a blood rain to get anything as large as a whole person. Feathers of course are normal, along with frogs, and pieces of things that might have been where all the blood came from. As yet, no one has been able to get Marcus to explain how this happened, but the odds are he doesn’t really know. People who arrive here by more ordinary means are often confused and disorientated by the experience.
Our expert gossips have surmised – based on how Marcus was dressed when we found him – that he might have been some kind of aeronaut in his previous life. He may therefore have been up in the sky for some other purpose and simply collided with whatever was causing the blood rain. There was no sign of an air balloon or other contraption when we found him, but we can’t rule out that having been eaten. The sky can be hungry.
