I am the passenger

[ooc: they'll be back by second period, no worries. . . .]

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"Where the fuck are we?" Pip grumbled as he got to his feet.

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"Well, we're not in Fandom any more..."

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"What did I say about gates?" Walter muttered as he stood up and shook the wrinkles out of his trousers.

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"This doesn't look like Hell," Nadia pulled her sweatshirt tighter around her. "Cold enough, but there's no people sticking up out of ice. No cheese, either."

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Pip looked up and pointed at a sign. "I also don't think hell is in New Jersey."

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There are no doubt some Pennysylvanians and New Yorkers who might disagree.

Walter had no opinion on the subject.

"Well, this certainly isn't Fandom. And for the record, I'd rather have other outcomes for Twister."

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"Duly noted." Pippi said looking around. "So... How do we get back?"

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Nadia was looking at the sign and trying to ignore the fact that it was frickin' cold. "If we go to the rest stop, I can probably hotwire a car."

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"That could work. Provided no one has any moral objection to it?"

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Walter snickered and shook his head. "We can leave them car rental money when we ditch it."

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Nadia looked down the highway. "If we have any left, when we're done paying tolls. . . ."

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"All I got are gold coins."

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"Steal a car with a lot of change. Or a tag thing, if they have them here."

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"Enough talk." Walter clambered up the slippery slope to the highway's shoulder to look up and down the road for some sign of a rest stop.

A horn blared at him, doppelering into the distance before he pointed in the direction the cars were traveling. Not because he saw anything, but because it was as good a guess as any.

"Come on."

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Pippi rugged her hands.

"Next time we play Twistja, I'm wearing a coat."

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It had taken a fair amount of effort for Nadia not to try to haul Walter back away from traffic. Instead, she shoved her hands deep in her pockets and started toward what she hoped was an exit ramp at a brisk pace.

"I was thinking we ought to burn the board, personally."

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"Or maybe just take the amulet off it?"

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"I still don't understand why we were doing it," Pip commented.

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"Boredom." Walter caught up to Nadia and put an arm around her. Shared warmth and all that.

"And I say we do it when the weather's better and none of us have class the next day."

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"I agree," Nadia said through a tightly clenched jaw. She was trying to keep her teeth from chattering. She leaned into ~~her personal space heater~~ Walter and went over the process of hotwiring a car in her mind.

Hey, it'd been awhile since she'd had to use that particular skill.

"For now? Let's just hurry?"

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Pippi put an arm around Pip. ~~Because walking blast furnaces like snuggles too~~

"No argument from me."

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Pip pulled Pippi in and looked up as a car slowed to a halt beside them.

"//The hell?//" he muttered.

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