Faye crushes the tip of her cigarette between her fingers, lets it fall to the ground, and even steps on it with the toe of her boot.
"Yeah."
That fountain, her room, that one pleated skirt she used to love so much when she was little, Sally and Amee and Beverly and Li Mei, and running uphill to get to her house.
She can even remember how excited she was to take that shuttle trip.
"It's just that I can't ever go back."
Gren gets a smile from her again. "I guess neither of us is quite what we seem to be."
She starts walking again, slowly, boots crunching through the snow.
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Date: 2006-02-15 03:46 am (UTC)"Yeah."
That fountain, her room, that one pleated skirt she used to love so much when she was little, Sally and Amee and Beverly and Li Mei, and running uphill to get to her house.
She can even remember how excited she was to take that shuttle trip.
"It's just that I can't ever go back."
Gren gets a smile from her again. "I guess neither of us is quite what we seem to be."
She starts walking again, slowly, boots crunching through the snow.