#bergen_county

"Okay."

"So, How's Nabuni? Man, if she were 5 foot taller or more"

"She says she's ok."

"Nice..."

A shrug.

"Okay, so firehouse,,,some tunes.." Pacing "Nah, no costume party- that's too Samhain"

"Unseelie time, right?"

"Oh you heard? Yeah... but my point is the halloween stuff makes the masks redundant."

"Uhhh.... ok."

"And yeah.. you might want to be unenchanted on Halloween/samhain"

A shrug. "Not a lot of choice."

"Just..well, Unseelie ain't evil...but they do get wild. "

A long pause. "Yeah, ok."

"You okay man? you seem laconic, even for you"

"Just... got a lot on me now, right? So.... yeah, wish I could help and all but those're my ideas. Hope it goes okay. I need to get to work."

"Oh sure man, just worried for you. You know this friendship goes two ways right? If you need to talk or something call me. Cool?"

"Yeah."

"Is that where everyone else went?"

"With Sam on the quest or whatever?"

"Yeah. Probably. Bet sshe wishes you could go with"

"Whatever."

"I mean, we aren't ... you know, exclusive or anything."

Zane says "Okay... dude. I .. you know she didn't want to hurt you right?"

A shrug.

"Not like she set me up, no. S'ok. I was worried but she's off doing her own thing. I"ll do mine. It's cool. We catch up, we'll see what's what."

"Right." He nods "See you later man I know yo ugot to get to work, but thanks for giving me your two cents. I really don't want to screw my turn at the gloaming up"

Adam nods. "Let me know if I can really help, man." And he takes himself to work.

Zane watches him go How do I convince him that sometimes being there to listen and talk IS helping?

On the way he pulls out his phone and texts *Amira.... you got time?*

Txt To talk? Not really, study, but... tomorrow maybe?

*Bzzt* Sure. Talk to you then. LMK.

TXT WILL! 🙂

And Adam clocks in at the sporting goods store.

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