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Night Stroll

She broke her stare. Right, that was probably rude, yeah? A subtle shake of her head and she returned the smile as best she could with the face mask still clasped over her mouth. Which was a little difficult, as always.

"You think they look for that when asking us to join up?" It wasn't surprising to hear someone else having some of the same problems. It was more than a running trend here.

"Like some kinda weird check list..." She plopped herself slight adjacent of the other, loosely crossing her legs.

Okay, this was gonna start to get awkward if she didn't just straight-up ask. Her eyes kept darting back to the cigarette. She couldn't help it, honestly!

"Soo... You got any more of those?" She pointed to behind one of her ears with slight hope raising her eyebrows.

Those Remaining

"What do you want?" Alicia deadpanned back at Zeke, unperturbed by the hint of irateness that was apparent in the Mist hunter's tone of voice and the look that he was giving her.

"So you're just going to roll over and give up just because he's gone? You don't even know for sure if he's dead or alive somewhere out there."

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He made a curious sound at the question, before shaking his head. "I doubt it. this is a recent problem for me, not something I had to deal with before coming here." Very recent, and hopefully temporary.

She took a seat, settling in, and that was fine. He didn't mind the company at all, and she seemed at least interesting enough, if that mask was anything to go by. He had actually opened his mouth to ask about it, stopped as she pointed at the cigarette behind his ear.

So much for just pretending he hadn't noticed her staring.

"The thing about that is, they aren't just mine." Technically they were. They came from his pack of cigarettes, and he'd been the one to salvage them. However, what was his was also Ever's.He glanced back down the beach the way he had come, and could just make out the blonde's sleeping figure beside the fire.




shorelines and dunescapes

"I don't sleep much lately," he said it casually, shrugging as if it wasn't a big deal.

Glancing down at Melvin, he'd lift a brow as he took a seat. "Chat about what?"



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He could feel his lips drawing away from his teeth in a frustrated snarl that he barely managed to reign in. "You came over here to pester me, not the other way around, sweetheart"

With the sole intent to drive it all home that Ever was gone, and Zeke had no way of knowing if where he was or if he was alive, or safe.

He made no move to get up, mostly because if he did he wasn't at all certain he would try to make a grab for her. "So I'll ask again, what do you want?"



the last one

Zeke smirked before plucking the cigarette back from Ever and tucking it away somewhere. "I guess that settles that, then." The more the discussion went on, the more circular it was going to become, and they'd never settle on a solution.

Not that there was a solution.

Distraction though, that was something he was good at. Something they both enjoyed. His smirk widened as he reached out to curl his fingers in the front of Ever's shirt, using the other man's layers as a leash to reel him in by.


I know you...

Zeke had a considerable few dings and nicks, but his were very visible, and very large. Primarily the burn.

The question was rude, but Zeke didn't sweat social niceties much. "Twenty-four, and yourself?"

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Welp, so much for that hope of getting any sleep in this place.

"Well s**t," A heavy sigh snaking through the threads of her mask before she fell onto her back with her arms stretched out above her.

"I ain't gonna take your last, much as I'd wanna." And boy, would she risk a good fight for a single puff at this point. But she's been in those spots before. Bummed and being bummed off of over a good couple of years.

"Wonder if any of the foliage around here might make a good substitute..." She could here the sigh from Li and the slew of words that followed in her 'terrible ideas.'

But it didn't hurt to just think out loud sometimes.

Those Remaining

So he still had a bit of a fight left in him huh? Good.

"I saw that. You don't have to sweetheart me or anything to keep things amiable between us darling." Alicia smiled sweetly. She wasn't even sure herself why she bothered poking and antagonizing Zeke like this when she didn't know who he was. Maybe she was bored and needed to rile things up a little. Maybe it was the way that the Mist hunter seemed to have given up on everything with the loss of his partner that struck a chord within her or something.

"I want you to live a little." She crossed her arms across her chest. "Stop being a zombie that has given up on life."

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Aww, she didn't want to really wake someone up just for a smoke. Sure, she was really considering it but her morality meter just wasn't gonna let it happen.

"Naaah," She sighed heavily before leaning forward, resting her arms across her knees. "Ain't gonna disturb someone else's beauty sleep just for me." In any other instance, she might have but it would have been a real d**k move on her part.

It was certainly gonna be a long night. The prompted question about her mask brought her brows up and slight crinkles to the corners of her emerald eyes.

"Ain't nothin' rude about it. You wouldn't be the first ta ask, that's fer sure."