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I think, for right now, Ace and Hope they're maybe too hurt to talk. I'm not gonna force either of them. I walk up to the cluster with SeaTac, Gates and QuePasa in it, circle the edges, like. I draw up tall, hardly thinking about it, because I kn…
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"Let's walk back to the party together. See some faces." I stand up and offer Hope a hand. "It's been nice, talking." I don't want Hope to walk back to SafeCo by herself, but SeaTac and Joey are still around. Should work out. "And you know," …
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"Awh, Shy does want it bad. I've told her she needs to work on learning to ride and shoot, and scrounge up a bike. I don't want a red-painted ride for her." Shy has a little puppy version of her aunt's temper, it's cute. Hope's hand is small in …
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I catch that look, that sound in her voice. Think I'm gonna stick with Hope a while. "I'm up in SafeCo pretty often as it is, Hope. Could be good to have both of you helpin' me out, since it's such trouble and you and SeaTac both got stuff you do…
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Getting this kind of attention from Hope is confusing. I can't think of anything I really want that I wouldn't share. I lean away from Hope a little under that look, then lean back and let my shoulders hit the roof with a thump. The sky is real p…
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I look at Hope and listen to her question. Tilt my head. That's a stumper. Over Pike's Place you can see little fires here and there, and stars are all up above in their arrangement, but the night is dark. I look back to the party, check on the …
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"Right, I mean, stray isn't even the word.." I scratch behind one of my ears, not sure how to dig deeper into what I mean. I stop scratching and let my arm ease down as she looks me in the eyes again. "With Bon?" I look over at the dancing goin'…
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Yeah, I'm not proud of what I did there. I hold still for Hope while she touches me. "I was used up then. It took time for the beauty to come. It was hard." I keep my eyes on hers while she explains what she can't do. She does know for real. …
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I have a seat next to Hope, easing myself down slowly. "The life's not for everybody." I've seen enough people wash out to know it's true. "It's not that you don't want to ride, it's that none of us think the nice things you get are worth workin'…
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"August is unbreakable." I say as we find our steps on the roof. "Changing who she is and how she is would take a lot more than that." More's to the point, more has happened to her and she came back around to herself. "She's taught me stuff I th…
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I stand back up, get one of Hope's hands in mine. "Let's take a walk, no sense sayin' things where all the girls are rowdy 'bout Grunge. One little step-round, then Grunge'll be on her scare ride and you can have Ace to yourself."
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Goodness, Hope's eyes. People tell me mine are a spook blue, like a friendly ghost. "Well." I take a swig of water. "It's worked out that we didn't. If we had, SeaTac prob'ly wouldn't be teaching Joey. Bon would have had to cut ties with us. …
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"Awright, that's awful good of her. You holler when you're leavin'." I give Zeus a wink. When she gives me what's the what on Hope tonight, I make a noise and head over to the bar. I barge in on Hope and Laika and Joey, play it more drunk than I…
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I nod quietly to SeaTac, tip my empty glass upside-down into Belka's empty mug, which swallows it right up. Nobody calls foul, so the game is mine. "Thanks for looking out for her. Now...she ain't some broken doll, SeaTac, she does have to want i…
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"Floodin' hell, Belka, you think she's got me on chase?" I'm still pouring steady and doing good on my feet. "She'll have a good life with the Arrows, ain't gotta be about that." Now, I think I've seen those moon eyes, but it's not happenin' anyt…
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Bon falls to pieces on us and it's stunning. I remember that battle, too, I...kinda made a splash of it and at the end I was whistlin' and not through my teeth, either. A bunch of what she said I suspected, kinda, in the way you can't ask. I've a…
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My guts are feeling pretty mellow, which is more than I can say for poor Bon..I'm glad August has her back on this. I glance down my cup at Belka while she asks about Grunge. I been thinkin' about this, too. We have an empty seat, and I could giv…
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I chuckle and wipe my mouth on my sleeve after drinking my roll. I can only tell which number is 1 because that's simple plus it's always on Belka's big mug. Every other number on the dice, it's like wrestling a snake with my eyes, I can't make it…
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Rolling to see if I horf at 6-Cup, marking XP; (Rolled: 2d6+2. Rolls: 6, 4. Total: 12)
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After the song, I stride up to Belka's Six-Cup table, whistling long at the sight of the Pike 'shine. That is a rotting dangerous thing to add to Six-Cup. Now, I like the way Belka explains the rules, so I lead up and give 'er my rube voice. "Gos…
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"Whoop!" I grin at August and let her dance me around, abandoning my drink to the table. I keep up, guessing what's next, moving to the beat, all smiles. I don't let us get tangled, trusting August to point me right and feeling her hands, her arm…
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I smile at the correction, lean into August and smell her clean glad-ragged sorta smell. It's so nice to have her around again, I missed her. With August and SeaTac I raise my glass. "To Marmaduke, who pointed forward, good and true, like a rea…
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"That's decent of you, SeaTac. Marmaduke was young, she didn't have the bitter some of us take on, you know? She had a silly laugh like she didn't care, and she could sleep anyplace! If the pile was too warm she'd be like, arms and legs off eithe…
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"Hey, SeaTac. It's good to be relaxing, you know? Been two steady floodin' weeks of trouble, I'm glad we pushed through. Glad you're not missing out on this, too." I reach out for a fistbump from SeaTac. As I lean back in my chair again I spot …
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I gesture toward some food while Joey tells me how he's doin'. He sounds pretty happy, I like that. Not like little kid happy, either. Guess I can't ruffle his hair no more. "Thanks, Joey. Duke was real good, we'll miss her." I keep my eye on …
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That was four days of some solid as hell work. We managed to tow the big scrap with multiple bikes, stuff chained and platformed together. It was slow and ugly but I've seen slower and uglier. We took it to Pike, that little bit of distance meant…
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Propped up against a stretch of wall that's the bridge on the inside, I look out over the sea and it chills the warm satisfaction I feel at what we've done. Lot of hurt gathered up in my people, but so much more coulda gone wrong. Without SeaTac w…
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Grunge asks me for something to hop to. Tryna' impress me, which doesn't hurt. Then the gun shot goes off and I tense a moment, wait for more, hand goin' to my hip and leanin' forward to spring. No more. I think I know why. "When you're done wi…
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::I believed we would. It was hard.:: I hold August's arms against me gently when she holds me, just a moment. Rest my head on hers. I've made it through all this fighting okay, she finds some bruises on me that make me breathe out in small hurt…
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::August, we'll have more time for that soon. I want you to stick with me.:: I sign as Portar gets perp-walked up to the bridge. Too many times I've lost sight of her and she's gone off alone and injured. I wait for her to follow with me, hand ex…