Characters: McQueen (
crossroaddeal), Argent (
twoninths)
Date/Time: Sept 16, the afternoon
Location: In the wreckage of near sector 1
Rating: PG-13, for blood.
Summary: Argent comes across a bit of sticky and very gross mess. Pleasantries are exchanged.
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The one not looking is the one whose found something... )
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Thirty minutes later, Argent's feet were blistering, and his back was killing him from so much bending and lifting, and a fine sheen of sweat was covering his nose, and Argent decided that this was all completely unacceptable. He dropped his latest load of debris in the big pile that he and the other volunteers in his part of the sector had been working on and carefully, as surreptitiously and casually as he could manage, he backed away into the more densely destroyed parts, where the clean-up had yet to reach ( ... )
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The thump of his heart was no longer drowning out the sounds around him, it had slowed down to barely noticeable pace. His right ear was plugged with congealed blood.
He had been drifting in and out of consciousness for along time, he wasn't sure how many days now. He'd lost count after 2. But light shown through the darkness behind his eyelids. His mouth was dry and still tasted of iron from his blood. Somehow he managed a to make small grunt or groan before slipping back out of conscious again.
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