Time for that, later. Given the dilapidated state of the structures in the distance, there's no real knowing they'll be much more stable, in the violent gusts and the hammering rain, than the creaking bulk of the tree. But they've stood this long, and they've got to be drier, if nothing else. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
He takes the time to push away from the trunk of the tree and heft the blade of the Transistor onto a shoulder to better move through the storm. In a tone far drier than the weather—]
Well, what've we got to lose? [Hah. Doesn't look like too bad a dash...a couple hundred feet. Figure it out from there.] Ladies first?
[He'll wait til she's moving to follow—just to be sure she doesn't lose her footing.]
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Time for that, later. Given the dilapidated state of the structures in the distance, there's no real knowing they'll be much more stable, in the violent gusts and the hammering rain, than the creaking bulk of the tree. But they've stood this long, and they've got to be drier, if nothing else. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
He takes the time to push away from the trunk of the tree and heft the blade of the Transistor onto a shoulder to better move through the storm. In a tone far drier than the weather—]
Well, what've we got to lose? [Hah. Doesn't look like too bad a dash...a couple hundred feet. Figure it out from there.] Ladies first?
[He'll wait til she's moving to follow—just to be sure she doesn't lose her footing.]