hearthebell: will credit if found (The people follow the signs)
hearthebell ([personal profile] hearthebell) wrote in [community profile] countryclub 2021-12-23 10:13 pm (UTC)

I'm... aware that the blade is rusty. But it's like taking pieces away from a partly-finished puzzle if you...

[What is he saying? He's explaining this as though the police will be here soon, to tag and bag and photograph the evidence. That's not the case.]

It's no matter. Not here, I'm sure.

[Deep breaths. Slow, so they're less noticeable. Even if he's a squid now, inherently, there's still the occasional panic rising in him, reminding him what he left, what his responsibilities are, before it's swept away by the notion that this is his new world, the one he belongs to now, and what came before is, likewise, no matter.]

It was awhile ago. This corrosion isn't recent... if it was a person they've long since fled. If it was something... significantly larger... I imagine it set the craft off course after the attack, and the tide brought in the wreckage.

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