phantomrider: (here in the eye)
Johnnie Redmayne ([personal profile] phantomrider) wrote in [community profile] beyondtheline 2025-04-24 02:25 am (UTC)

I'll come, just gimme a minute.

[Time for a smoke break. She can search for a little bit on her own while he lights up and rolls his shoulders.

They have their own map too, of course, but it's too damn dark to read it out here and his lighter is going to run out of fuel if he keeps using it for this sort of thing. Did she pack a flashlight? She must have, she thought through this stuff well.

It takes him a few minutes more to dig through the bag she packed, but it's there, sunk to the bottom. He comes inside after her and unfolds the map over the old countertop by the front door, and looks it over.]


I feel like we oughta be somewhere around Los Banos? That's where I was gonna turn off the five an' head west. If we're north of that, maybe this is Santa Nella?

[Time is fucking with them, that's the only possible way they could have missed such an obvious turn off. Or the sign had fallen over and decayed over time. Totally possible.]

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