Freeze the burn

NATE

I don't know where I'm gonna go
But I don't care, I'm on the road

At the time, Nate's sure he would have preferred the sunburn as well, but as he is now, it's a harder decision to weigh. His confidence is far more solid than it's ever been, no longer a glass wall doing what it could to keep him untouched, and sunburn implied well, sun. "I don't know, that looks like hell. I mean, you're in an ice puddle right now." The last part probably didn't need to be pointed out, but it did help his point.

Look at him go. The assurance that he was correct only had the grin on his face widening, stretching into a proper smug smirk. It was the second time he'd met someone else from Earth, and it was just as strange, just as uncomfortable feeling. As if they shared some kind of distant dream. Nate's jaw works, his one eyed gaze drifting out towards the mountains that rose up around them, as a body warm enough that he could feel it plopped down next to him. "I've been here... fuck, over two years now." Not a realization that particularly helped him at the moment. "It... gets a little bit easier to deal with, the longer you're around it."

If this was his first time, maybe it would be a little stranger to hear the question that fell from the other man. "It does do that. The first other person I met from earth was from uh, ninety-five, I think?" There'd been so much other weirdness in that conversation that he really couldn't bring a solid date to mind. "I'm from eighty-two. You?" His head tilted to the side as his gaze focused all at once on Chulane again, wide and unblinking and only a little worried that the man had come from some unimaginable future.

Never been a perfect soul
But I will not apologize

Base Code by Sky!