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Madison Scott-Clary 2022-07-04 13:05:08 -05:00
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@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ Ey jolted back as the skunk leapt to her feet, gaze whipping about the room, the
She held up a paw, beckoning em to silence, and, despite the way she kept searching face after face, ey could picture dozens of sensorium messages flying back and forth from her. Her frown only deepened.
Ey closed eir notebook, figuring ey was pretty well ruined for work at this point, and watched the skunk carefully.
Ey closed eir notebook, figuring ey was pretty well ruined for work at this point, and watched her carefully.
When nothing of interest appeared on the street, the skunk slowly turned to scan the room. Her eyes shot wide open, and ey followed her gaze out into the scant crowd of patrons. Everything was much as it had been: folks sitting and chatting, drinking their coffee, reading or doing work. She, however, seemed to be focused in particular on a middle-aged man walking from the back of the shop, though, where a door opened onto patio seating.
"Fuck," she said, then shouted, "*Fuck!*"
True Name darted around the coffee table, knocking against it hard enough to send both of their drinks spilling across its surface, and grabbed eir hand. "Go, Ioan! Go, go!"
She darted around the coffee table, knocking against it hard enough to send both of their drinks spilling across its surface, and grabbed eir hand. "Go, Ioan! Go, go!"
"What?!" Ey scrambled to eir feet, eyes darting between True Name and that oddly familiar man walking towards them. "Where?"

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@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ They fell into silence again while Ioan and True Name finished their food and Ma
"Thank you for joining me out here. I am both glad to be outdoors and intensely uncomfortable sitting on a fucking log," she said, smiling tiredly. "I do not think that I will stay out here, though. The greater part of me demands a comfortable bed."
"Those fucking cots are the worst," May grumbled, sounding forced in her casualness. "Like a hammock, but far worse."
"Those fucking cots are awful," May grumbled, sounding forced in her casualness. "Like a hammock, but far worse."
"I do not think that even End Waking enjoys them, so it is easy enough for the True Name part of me to win out on that subject."
@ -96,4 +96,4 @@ May tucked closer against Ioan's side and buried her face in eir shirt to cry, m
"I think that means 'no problem'," ey said. "But I don't speak skunk all that-- ow! She bit me!"
The other skunk laughed. "It is no less than you deserve, I am sure. But come, once you are able to, let us walk to the rock at the end of the lake. I want to see the stars before we head back."
True Name laughed. "It is no less than you deserve, I am sure. But come, once you are able to, let us walk to the rock at the end of the lake. I want to see the stars before we head back."