[ showcase #7 - we have lost the dawn ]

[viridian_knight]

[A - 1491 Kramden Rd - backdated to last Wed after the end of the zombie infestation]

[It's his second go at dying in Mayfield, his second time to wake up in the early hours of the morning the following day. There's a stab of panic, oh so brief, until he remembers where he is and that he's alive and well and not a mindless corpse out to eat the

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[heartstar_blues]

[There's the guy in a trench coat, hands tucked into his pockets, seeming to be moping.

He's avoiding people and not really watching where he is going.

That includes walking into traffic and not seeming to care about the near misses he gets as cars swerve around him honking horns.]

[viridian_knight]

Hey! Hey-

[Hal has a few choice, rather unheroic gestures for the honking Mayfieldians in their cars as he takes off after the other man, aiming to seize him by the coat and haul him up onto the sidewalk. He doesn't necessarily have to be polite about it.]

Captain, right? What the Hell do you think you're doing?

[heartstar_blues]

[Tries to pretend like he didn't hear the guy.

Then he's grabbed, and stumbles over to the side walk.]

I'm walking, what does it look like I'm doing?

[viridian_knight]

Then do it on the sidewalk, for Pete's sake. You could have been killed.

[Fine words from a guy just back from the dead, but Hal stands firm.]

[heartstar_blues]

Okay, yeah, you might not have heard.

I'm a Superhero. It takes more than a car to kill me.

And I just want to get so drunk before sun comes down that I forget this town exists, okay?