It's not even the weirdest shit she's heard since she got here. She's met robots and aliens. Gods. Vampires. Clones. The works. Nowadays, a murderous kid-eating fear-clown doesn't actually seem all that absurd. Takes her a moment to process the idea, her eyebrows pinched together as she tries to picture it — but after a moment, she seems to just accept his story as the truth, humming out a little noise of acknowledgment.
Tough kids, taking on a thing like that.
She opens her mouth, maybe to say something along those lines — but the words drop dead in her mouth as something hard bounces off her fucking forehead. The pebble falls to the ground in front of her, right between her boots. Her eyebrows pinch again. She gives Richie a look. ]
You could have at least used a bigger fucking rock. [ There's a tiny little red mark where the pebble hit her — or is there? Funny, but it seems to be gone already. She doesn't seem deterred either way, instead pointing out across the yard by the tree where there's a small branch that's broken off. ] Go pick that up. Show me your clown-killing technique.
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It's not even the weirdest shit she's heard since she got here. She's met robots and aliens. Gods. Vampires. Clones. The works. Nowadays, a murderous kid-eating fear-clown doesn't actually seem all that absurd. Takes her a moment to process the idea, her eyebrows pinched together as she tries to picture it — but after a moment, she seems to just accept his story as the truth, humming out a little noise of acknowledgment.
Tough kids, taking on a thing like that.
She opens her mouth, maybe to say something along those lines — but the words drop dead in her mouth as something hard bounces off her fucking forehead. The pebble falls to the ground in front of her, right between her boots. Her eyebrows pinch again. She gives Richie a look. ]
You could have at least used a bigger fucking rock. [ There's a tiny little red mark where the pebble hit her — or is there? Funny, but it seems to be gone already. She doesn't seem deterred either way, instead pointing out across the yard by the tree where there's a small branch that's broken off. ] Go pick that up. Show me your clown-killing technique.