a little victimless crime

Adam

Speed up to the precipice and then slam on the brakes
Some people crash two or three times and then learn from their mistakes

He had waited outside the portal for as long as he could do, until the sun rose too high in the sky for Adam to be able to hide in the shade anymore. Pet hadn't shown up, and even though it had barely been a morning of post-Longnight, Adam couldn't help but feel worried, and oddly guilty (though he couldn't quite place why). He'd gone back to the Advocates reluctantly after sunrise, hoping Pet wouldn't feel abandoned when he came through the portal to no welcome.

That was, if he came through the portal, but Adam didn't want to imagine an alternative. They'd only just come back. Life couldn't be that unfair, right?

Laying in their pile of blankets and pillows in the corner, he stared at the door, waiting for Pet to walk through it any moment. He'd take limping, he'd take half-monster, whatever, as long as he came in alive. Pressing a pillow close to his chest, Adam watched and waited, not knowing what else to do.

We are the ones who don't slow down at all
And there's nobody there to catch us when we fall