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gonna_live) wrote2009-03-17 07:54 pm
gonna_live) wrote2009-03-17 07:54 pm
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Kaylee's got a project, as of a few days ago. It's a project pretty far out toward the edge of town, and she's got to switch from omnibus to magrail to omnibus to a different omnibus to get there.
She's waiting for the rail, and eating a bar of chocolate as she walks; she wanders over to a trash can to throw away the wrapper. The station is pretty quiet in the early afternoon, and the uniformed officer nearby the trash can looks pretty bored.
It's a pretty station, though, all arched ceilings and mosaics and columns. Shame that somebody's left their coffee cup right by the trash can -- it does kind of ruin the picture. Kaylee stoops, picks it up, throws it away, and dusts off her hands. Like doing her civic duty, almost -- keeping Capital City tidy.
"Miss."
Kaylee turns around to face the uniformed officer, who's pleasant enough -- not frowning or anything remotely like it.
He says, "You're bound by law to stand down. If you'll come with me."
Her heart doesn't literally stop.
She's waiting for the rail, and eating a bar of chocolate as she walks; she wanders over to a trash can to throw away the wrapper. The station is pretty quiet in the early afternoon, and the uniformed officer nearby the trash can looks pretty bored.
It's a pretty station, though, all arched ceilings and mosaics and columns. Shame that somebody's left their coffee cup right by the trash can -- it does kind of ruin the picture. Kaylee stoops, picks it up, throws it away, and dusts off her hands. Like doing her civic duty, almost -- keeping Capital City tidy.
"Miss."
Kaylee turns around to face the uniformed officer, who's pleasant enough -- not frowning or anything remotely like it.
He says, "You're bound by law to stand down. If you'll come with me."
Her heart doesn't literally stop.