Ten years ago, she was a child. Ten years from now ... she's just gone.
"Yeah." It's an uncertain word. Just hedged out there. Like a rock in a stream. A word because there was supposed to be one. Because the kid went out looking surprised-cheerful and still so earnest, and she kept feeling that number hit a little harder with each heartbeat, even as she was shoving it down harder for each, too.
She bunts with questions that don't require her focus so much as open the floor for him. It's easy, old hand, very bartender. She needs a breather, and details can't hurt. "What are things like for all of you there?"
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Ten years ago, she was a child.
Ten years from now ... she's just gone.
"Yeah." It's an uncertain word. Just hedged out there. Like a rock in a stream. A word because there was supposed to be one. Because the kid went out looking surprised-cheerful and still so earnest, and she kept feeling that number hit a little harder with each heartbeat, even as she was shoving it down harder for each, too.
She bunts with questions that don't require her focus so much as open the floor for him. It's easy, old hand, very bartender. She needs a breather, and details can't hurt. "What are things like for all of you there?"
Beat. "How did you end up with them?"