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[killtime]

[ The camera angle is. Bad. This is a person who does not know how to use their communicator well. They probably can't even take a proper selfie. All that's showing is a pair of combat boots moving around in the grass — someone's backyard? — and in the distance, much farther out, a tree that (oddly enough) has a single board nailed to it for a reason only the gods know. It's not even nailed on straight.

The boots stop wandering. It's quiet for a moment.

Then there's a thwip, almost like the sound of a rubber band, and a thunk moments later, as an arrow hits the crooked board, dead center.

Unceremoniously then, a woman's voice: ]

Any of you know shit about teenagers?

[ Another thunk. A second arrow, its head practically kissing the first where it strikes. ]

What do normal fifteen-year-olds do these days?

[ Thunk. A third arrow. Three for three.

A mutter then, half to herself: ]

Fuck. Probably better get around to the whole "birds and bees" thing.

Comments

[killtime]

...Right.

I should definitely let you go on the internet and look for sex ed diagrams. There's no possible way that could go wrong. It would certainly not be hilarious.

[ct_7567]

Come, now. If I'm looking specifically for educational diagrams, I doubt I'll run into anything too bad.

[killtime]

[ Famous last words, Rex. ]

Do report back on your findings, Captain.

[ct_7567]

I don't know why you're so convinced that it's going to be so horrible. It won't be anything I haven't seen before.

[ Oh, it will be. Rex has no idea. ]

[killtime]

Babe, when you see what you're going to see, I want you to remember the exact moment you said this to me.