musicdied: (try it)
Yelena Belova ([personal profile] musicdied) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowcomm 2022-09-25 09:21 pm (UTC)

II

It's near Dogtown that Yelena comes across him. It's her turn to patrol the fences, to chase off wandering idiots, or to dive in after the ones who inevitably slip through, whether lured by contrarianism, juvenile bravado, or some other, less inherent thing. She resents it a little - with music once again flowing from the graveyards, it feels like a waste of time to be stuck rescuing people from their own stupidity - but given everything Dogtown chooses to be, there's too much risk that anyone who spends too long inside the fence might come back as something else to shirk her responsibilities.

Veering a little off her path to catch up with Winter, however, doesn't count as shirking. She raises a hand in greeting as she lopes over, waiting until she's within normal conversational difference to say, "If you've come with orders to napalm the entire fucking forest, I might have to kiss you."

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