Val spins Kade away from the buildings.
Val spins Kade away from the buildings.
Val: Notice anything?
They stand before an empty parking lot.
Kade looks up and down the sidewalk.
Kade: …No?
Val: Exactly. No cars, no signs, no people—
—just the bare minimum you’d need to convey the impression of a city.
Kade: Well, yeah, it’s deadsville around here. That’s kinda why I like it.
Val: But no trace of life at all? Not even grass or gum in the pavement?
Kade, unamused, mildly worried: Valerie, seriously. What’re you getting at.
Val pauses, facing away from Kade, serious for a moment. Inhales.
Then she turns around. Making a little “jazz hands” motion, she says with a big grin: This is all a game!
Kade stares at her. What the fuck.