...I happy-shrieked. In a very undignified manner. Um. *digs* AH!
They took I-70 out from Junction City, the miles racing by as they headed east in Hank's station wagon. The nurture unit and DG had maintained it well, and following a bit of tinkering by Ambrose it ran even better. Cain was driving, outwardly calm and collected while he prayed to all the gods he could think of that this wasn't a mistake. Ambrose rest his head against the passenger-side window and watched the cars, trucks, fields, cities, and sky, mumbling things shouted from billboards as they flew past.
It was meant to be a quick trip to the Otherside to clean up some lose ends, the two men accompanying DG to make sure nothing went awry. Within the first week, however, she had decided to get those last credit hours for her associate's degree and enrolled in school full time. It was something she felt she had to do, one accomplishment that would be hers alone, not something given to her because she was her mother's daughter. Cain could hardly argue with that reasoning.
For his part Cain worked on fixing up the house and dealt with the realtors and people looking to buy the place. They'd cobbled together a story that he was Hank's brother, that Hank and Emily had been lost in the storm and that Cain was settling their affairs before taking DG back east. That seemed to satisfy the curious, which was more than fine with him.
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Date: 2008-08-09 04:47 am (UTC)They took I-70 out from Junction City, the miles racing by as they headed east in Hank's station wagon. The nurture unit and DG had maintained it well, and following a bit of tinkering by Ambrose it ran even better. Cain was driving, outwardly calm and collected while he prayed to all the gods he could think of that this wasn't a mistake. Ambrose rest his head against the passenger-side window and watched the cars, trucks, fields, cities, and sky, mumbling things shouted from billboards as they flew past.
It was meant to be a quick trip to the Otherside to clean up some lose ends, the two men accompanying DG to make sure nothing went awry. Within the first week, however, she had decided to get those last credit hours for her associate's degree and enrolled in school full time. It was something she felt she had to do, one accomplishment that would be hers alone, not something given to her because she was her mother's daughter. Cain could hardly argue with that reasoning.
For his part Cain worked on fixing up the house and dealt with the realtors and people looking to buy the place. They'd cobbled together a story that he was Hank's brother, that Hank and Emily had been lost in the storm and that Cain was settling their affairs before taking DG back east. That seemed to satisfy the curious, which was more than fine with him.