The yelling came as a surprise, but not enough to make her jerk back or flinch. She could tell by now when yelling was dangerous, and that sounded like someone who was as surprised to be doing it as she was to be hearing it.
She did turn her head toward the source of the voice, adjusted her glasses as she gave him a once-over. Talked like a cop, walked like a cop, carried a gun like a cop, kinda turned her on like a cop. Instinct said he was probably harmless, none of the obvious red flags she associated with potential murderapists. She'd been wrong before, but she didn't like letting outliers dictate her behavior.
"Is that what that is?" she said with a click of her tongue. "Thought it was a velvet rope. Colorblindness gets me every time." This was blatantly and offensively false, but that was what made it funny, as far as she was concerned. It was too late to play innocent, so she doubled down on playing the bad girl, which was easier anyway. She held up the hand with her cigarette to indicate that he should give her a minute, as if she was in any position to be giving anyone orders. Then she stuck her cigarette between her lips, pulled out the Zippo she'd been digging for to light it.
She sighed a happy cloud of smoke ill-suited to her location, then stood, ran fingers through curls that had grown out enough to fall around her ears. "Kay," she said, stepping around the body to approach him and holding the lighter out to drop into his hand. "But try to give it back quick, cuz this asshole said he was just gonna borrow it for a sec and that was three hours ago. And I'm pretty sure he's only been dead for one of those, so that's no excuse."
Cocking her head to the side, green eyes dragged over him again as she took another slow drag. It was the tie that was getting her, she was almost sure of it. Something about a tie like that made her want to yank on it. "Lemme guess," she said, "No uniform, no hazmat... that means you're a dick, right?"
She did turn her head toward the source of the voice, adjusted her glasses as she gave him a once-over. Talked like a cop, walked like a cop, carried a gun like a cop, kinda turned her on like a cop. Instinct said he was probably harmless, none of the obvious red flags she associated with potential murderapists. She'd been wrong before, but she didn't like letting outliers dictate her behavior.
"Is that what that is?" she said with a click of her tongue. "Thought it was a velvet rope. Colorblindness gets me every time." This was blatantly and offensively false, but that was what made it funny, as far as she was concerned. It was too late to play innocent, so she doubled down on playing the bad girl, which was easier anyway. She held up the hand with her cigarette to indicate that he should give her a minute, as if she was in any position to be giving anyone orders. Then she stuck her cigarette between her lips, pulled out the Zippo she'd been digging for to light it.
She sighed a happy cloud of smoke ill-suited to her location, then stood, ran fingers through curls that had grown out enough to fall around her ears. "Kay," she said, stepping around the body to approach him and holding the lighter out to drop into his hand. "But try to give it back quick, cuz this asshole said he was just gonna borrow it for a sec and that was three hours ago. And I'm pretty sure he's only been dead for one of those, so that's no excuse."
Cocking her head to the side, green eyes dragged over him again as she took another slow drag. It was the tie that was getting her, she was almost sure of it. Something about a tie like that made her want to yank on it. "Lemme guess," she said, "No uniform, no hazmat... that means you're a dick, right?"
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