The Streets of Town, Thursday Morning

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Everything was grey these days. Grey, or that muddy red-brown color that humans left behind when their bodies were damaged, but in the fog, the always, always fog, even that seemed grey, or black. Dirty. Earth was dirty. Dirtier now than it had been, and smaller, just one island apart from the rest, but this was the Earth that was most prevalent in

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[emptypark]

Parker was walking. It was part of her... routine? Could you have a routine, if you didn't remember the word for it? Or words?

Blank-faced, she paced down the walk, eyes fixed forward. Sounds and sights passed through her field of vision and had no impact.

Anyone who tried to stop her or touch her, though, would get a very nasty face full of attack-Parker.

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You know, after meeting two sane if forgetful people who had been long gone, one might think that Peridot would be willing to check to see if Parker had regained her sanity, too. Fortunately, Peridot was paranoid. It made for a little extra caution when watching people shuffle by.

She watched quietly from behind her pile of rubble, and then got back to shoving the rest of her findings into her bag. Hollows... Peridot didn't like hollows.

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And who could blame Peridot for that? Hollows didn't like Hollows. Hollows didn't like. Hollows just... were.

Parker didn't notice Peridot, or if she did, it was as something not-threat, not-important, not-not-not.

Step step, step step. Step-step, step-step.

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It helped that Peridot could add 'not edible' to the list, perhaps. She hunkered down and watched until Parker had moved on, and then slipped out from behind the rubble, to follow carefully, well behind her. She wouldn't get in her way, of course, but they happened to be headed in roughly the same direction.

[emptypark]

Step step step. Stop at the edge of the street. Turn head both ways. Sort of looking. Mostly not. Turn in a circle, then go forward, autonomic systems all go. Anything else, gone.