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[orangetoughguy]

Rain all fucking day?

Ridiculous.

Raptors opening the goddamn door?

...Right on.

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[orangetoughguy]

Wait you're on a boat? Out in this weather?

[adamantined]

I'm on a boat. Apparently there's a Noah's Ark theme going on. I kind of got... roped into it, so to speak.

So you're back in the City?

[orangetoughguy]

Yeah. I'm at home.

Are you okay? You in trouble or anything?

[adamantined]

From out here it looks like the whole thing is getting washed away. You've got no idea what a relief it is to hear things are still standing, but you should probably get somewhere high up just in case.

I'm fine and I'll be fine. You don't have to worry about me.

[orangetoughguy]

I don't live on the first floor and the storm here's pretty fucking violent, but I'm from California. Apparently that lends me zero credibility when it comes to rainy weather.

Are you sure?

[adamantined]

Where at in California? I don't think I ever asked.

I'm tougher than I look, but your concern is very sweet, Mr. Bond. And, by the way, the second or third or fourth floor doesn't count as high ground. Try like the 80th.

[orangetoughguy]

The southern half.

I ain't on the 80th but I'm a little higher than that. I'd go out and count but I don't get wet if I don't have to.

[adamantined]

Maybe we bumped into each other at some point.

I wouldn't go out unless you had to. If raptors were chasing you, for example.

[orangetoughguy]

Like where, in the delivery room?

[adamantined]

I was thinking maybe during the period when I was volunteering at that retirement home.

[orangetoughguy]

I never saw your face before in my life back then, too busy managing the other interns.

[adamantined]

I didn't know they sent interns to nursing homes.

[orangetoughguy]

Med students I think, or I could be making shit up.

[adamantined]

You shouldn't make shit up when it's apparently about to the be the end of the world.

[orangetoughguy]

You actually believe that?

[adamantined]

I don't believe that it's going to be the end of the world. We've had plenty of things that like this that have happened, even worse, and this place is still standing. But usually when something does happen there's a reason for it.

Plus... getting on the boat is probably just as dangerous as staying in the City is, and the City at least is grounded. People need someone to look after them.

[orangetoughguy]

So. You're on the boat to be a hero?

[adamantined]

Peter would've - I'm on the boat to be a glorified babysitter.

[orangetoughguy]

Sounds like a hero to me. Mine saved me from swallowing a lego.

[adamantined]

Can you really call someone a hero if they just saved you because it meant not getting paid if you died?

[orangetoughguy]

Do you always think the worst of people? That's just pessimistic.

[adamantined]

No, actually, I think that's just something that you bring out in me.

[orangetoughguy]

Well, is it honest at least?

[adamantined]

Actually I think it's more sarcastic.

[orangetoughguy]

So I bring out the sarcasm in you which only proves my point, that you wouldn't save a kid from choking on a lego just for a paycheck, you'd do it cause it's the right thing to do. You just don't want me knowing about it.