Around Town | Late Thursday Morning

[knife_bender]

Okay, well, it had been pretty well established that patrolling the town was useless, but what else were people like Diego supposed to do? It had been hammered in his head since birth to take action, even if the efforts were futile.

Which probably also explained Five's determination to stop the apocalypse even though he had nothing to go on.

So, yeah. Walking around town yet again. For some reason. Maybe he'd find a hole to jump in.

[For a few!]

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"I swear I think every person I talked to when I first got here wanted to talk about that damn volcano," Annie said with a little smile. "So I've heard that story a lot. But I also feel like this is going on a really long time for...how this stuff usually goes. Like, what people have told me. Everyone was really informative about this kind of stuff for awhile 'cause I was trying to, you know, do the Starlight thing here."

[knife_bender]

Well Diego didn't really invite conversation, so it probably wasn't surprising this was the first he had heard of a volcano.

"You think people would have learned something with how to deal with this."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"This seems pretty unprecedented," Annie said, shaking her head. "Like, we should look it up to be sure, but -- like, the volcano thing was that this goat Santa guy kidnapped the bus of new kids and took them to a volcano? Something like that? So it's still different from this thing where people disappear one-by-one. Sometimes with buildings."

[knife_bender]

"Okay..." Diego really had no idea how to respond to that whole thing. "Somehow we could overcome that, but everyone is stuck on the holes thing? I feel like an idiot."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Me too." Annie took a moment to just go on her toes and press a kiss to his cheek, kind of needing a little bit of comfort even if she was worried enough for this to be a pretty focused patrol. "Like, I'm never the...plans-y one, anyway, but I feel exceptionally stupid right now."

So at least Diego shouldn't feel dumb alone.

[knife_bender]

"I think we're in good company with that," he said with a sigh. "Kind of makes me feel better."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"And at least we're together," Annie added, bumping her shoulder against his arm. "I'd probably be such a wreck if you'd fallen in."

She wasn't exactly doing great, emotionally, with two of her best friends in there.

[knife_bender]

"Don't jinx us," Diego said lightly, leaning in to kiss her cheek. "I'd lose my damn mind."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"No jinxes," Annie agreed, smiling the tiniest bit as she looked around and gently tapped on a tree with her knuckles. There. Superstition fulfilled. "We'll figure it out, Diego. We have to. Even if we don't, someone will."

And until then, they'd...keep walking in circles while Annie prayed and came up with increasingly stupid plans.

(The backhoe was kind of an okay idea, maybe.)