Unless shit's really gone to hell. Or they all left here an' this shit's running on emergency power? I dunno.
[He has to slow down to deal with this road, but Chrissy's admiration is cute and keeps him smiling as he reaches back to squeeze her knee.
And then he has to come to an abrupt stop with a squeal of the tires as his light shines through the fog onto a vertical surface. The road has split, a large jagged crack racing across it, and on the far side, the land has lifted upward a good three feet. Johnnie looks it over, then sighs and kills the engine.]
Guess we gotta make a ramp. I wonder what happened? Kinda makes me think a huge fuckin' earthquake musta hit, that's about the only thing.
[They're common enough here - honestly it's a surprise they haven't had one since she joined him, or if they had, they were too small to notice. But he knows big ones happen. Really big ones, sometimes.]
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[He has to slow down to deal with this road, but Chrissy's admiration is cute and keeps him smiling as he reaches back to squeeze her knee.
And then he has to come to an abrupt stop with a squeal of the tires as his light shines through the fog onto a vertical surface. The road has split, a large jagged crack racing across it, and on the far side, the land has lifted upward a good three feet. Johnnie looks it over, then sighs and kills the engine.]
Guess we gotta make a ramp. I wonder what happened? Kinda makes me think a huge fuckin' earthquake musta hit, that's about the only thing.
[They're common enough here - honestly it's a surprise they haven't had one since she joined him, or if they had, they were too small to notice. But he knows big ones happen. Really big ones, sometimes.]