phantomrider: ('cause you hold your life)
Johnnie Redmayne ([personal profile] phantomrider) wrote in [community profile] beyondtheline 2025-06-07 05:38 am (UTC)

[He looks up from the water, out toward the eastern horizon.]

Huh. Yeah, kinda. Summer's such bullshit, hardly any night at all. Least the days are gettin' shorter now.

[Summer's fine, actually, anyway. It's nice when it's a comfortable temperature out, and tourists love to come and spend their money in the summers. Lots of potential for casual theft and drug pushing.

But, well, here they are far from home and dawn is approaching, dragging the corners of the world up into the sky with it. He swears he can see the fabric of the night being pulled aside like the curtain on a stage.

So at least the mushrooms were the real deal. Dante was an asshole but he sold them good shit.

There's more movement. More people arriving in cars and several of them give him and Chrissy long, confused looks as they walk past. He offers her his cigarette and stands.]


Oughta go, I guess. Man, I dunno where we even are from here, though, where'd I even leave the bike? Feels like fuckin' forever ago.

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