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polly_okeefe

Learning Outside the Comfort Zone (for Zell)

Sep 03, 2011 09:32

Looking up at the shotgun on the wall, I reflected that a lot had changed in the nearly three years I'd been on the Island. I thought I'd had a remarkable life before; I mean, who gets to go to Greece by herself, and later finds herself falling back in time? But if I had told my seventeen-year-old self that, today, I'd be living happily with a fine ( Read more... )

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spirited_hero September 3 2011, 17:19:34 UTC

polly_okeefe September 5 2011, 11:53:33 UTC

I couldn't help but smile at his enthusiasm, though I was too nervous to share it. "I'm ready," I said. I clasped his hand as we headed out to wherever we were going to learn. I assumed it would be the beach. Clear sight lines; less of a likelihood that I'd accidentally hit someone.

spirited_hero September 5 2011, 13:20:18 UTC

polly_okeefe September 6 2011, 18:51:18 UTC

Yes, it had been a good idea to make new target circles. The complaints about what happened to the old ones had been loud. These looked thick. They should stand up to shotgun shells, shouldn't they?

When Zell asked me if I was ready, I looked at him. I wanted to make Zell proud of me, so I drew myself up and gave him a smile as I nodded. "Yes." As I'll ever be, anyway.

I stood ready for the weapon.

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