Everest
'What if there was an emergency?' Ever counters, his perfectly sculpted brows raising behind his mask. "They're black. I thought it worked." He adds, glancing down at his footwear uncertainly. Black was black was black...right?
Giggling a touch (the punch was strong, and this particular wallflower had been watering her roots with it for a while now), she holds her hand out again even though they'd just shook. "I'm Caroline, but everyone calls me Cara."
Ever, still rolling his cup in his hands, says no at the same time Cara says sure! Red-cheeked beneath his mask, the paramedic does his best to silently communicate with his friend. How Mateo could learn the latin names of his flowers but not be able to manage morse code was beyond him. "Don't we have that thing, though?" He asks, just as a bunch of flashes go off by the doors. Outside cameras are blinking like its the 4th of July, as Dr. Lockwood enters dressed as the statue of liberty, followed by a man in a gorilla suit.
Giggling a touch (the punch was strong, and this particular wallflower had been watering her roots with it for a while now), she holds her hand out again even though they'd just shook. "I'm Caroline, but everyone calls me Cara."
Ever, still rolling his cup in his hands, says no at the same time Cara says sure! Red-cheeked beneath his mask, the paramedic does his best to silently communicate with his friend. How Mateo could learn the latin names of his flowers but not be able to manage morse code was beyond him. "Don't we have that thing, though?" He asks, just as a bunch of flashes go off by the doors. Outside cameras are blinking like its the 4th of July, as Dr. Lockwood enters dressed as the statue of liberty, followed by a man in a gorilla suit.
I was a dead man walking,
with bloodshot eyes—right place, wrong time.
with bloodshot eyes—right place, wrong time.
