thisislife: (I been out on that open road)
Lêxï HðwårÐ ([personal profile] thisislife) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2023-04-13 06:52 pm (UTC)

"A grappling hook? Like Batman? But yeah, shoulda been able to think of the food and water on my own. But in my defense, I haven't been hiking since I was a Girl Scout and that was four years ago. And a tent. And--and--holy crap, I feel like I should be in the Army to have all of this stuff ready whenever. But I have a flashlight! See?" And she does. One of the old-fashioned metal ones which could probably be used as a bludgeon just in case.

Lexi was almost a strictly indoors kind of girl. She was secretly glad when Rue's mom quit leading the Girl Scout troop because it meant no more camping and no more outdoors unless it was a stupid family party which she always smuggled books to anyway. So all of the earlier stuff hadn't even occurred to her.

All she could think of were those eighties slasher movies where you wanted to scream at the character on the screen 'you dummy, Jason is right behind you, turn around!' It was that sense, times about a thousand. Only she had no idea what was behind them, only that it was bad.

"Well. That tracks. I mean, you guys said he was petty. So of course he'd leave some extra-petty bullshit behind?"

That was what Lexi was afraid Luz would say. "So, what now," Lexi asked, trying to keep the nerves out of her voice.

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