I snorted in laughter at the comment about where she thought we could stick
the sleeping bag and remarked that I was glad it wasn't very big if that
was the case. Again, that was entirely deserved and I didn't mind that
banter. The comment about Kincaid hit me differently though, my jaw
clenching tight and my hands white knuckling the steering wheel. Winter
demanded that we pull over now and stake a claim to Murphy and then go find
Kincaid and fight him to the death. My own feelings mirrored the first
impulse but I wasn't such a caveman or so suicidal that I wanted to do the
second. But that's what made the Winter Mantle so insidious, sometimes it
so closely resembled my own thoughts.
I was a big boy though and took a few deep breaths to relax myself. This
was just teasing banter and I wasn't some knuckle dragging ape that thought
Karrin was my possession or anything. My knuckles were at least a few
inches off the ground, thank you very much.
"Extra large, at least according to my gloves," I acknowledged just as I
pulled the Beetle off of the main highway and onto a side road. Just a bit
farther down here and we could park and then hike the rest of the way in.
"Only one way to find out if they serve your purposes."
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Date: 2020-11-09 02:42 pm (UTC)I snorted in laughter at the comment about where she thought we could stick the sleeping bag and remarked that I was glad it wasn't very big if that was the case. Again, that was entirely deserved and I didn't mind that banter. The comment about Kincaid hit me differently though, my jaw clenching tight and my hands white knuckling the steering wheel. Winter demanded that we pull over now and stake a claim to Murphy and then go find Kincaid and fight him to the death. My own feelings mirrored the first impulse but I wasn't such a caveman or so suicidal that I wanted to do the second. But that's what made the Winter Mantle so insidious, sometimes it so closely resembled my own thoughts.
I was a big boy though and took a few deep breaths to relax myself. This was just teasing banter and I wasn't some knuckle dragging ape that thought Karrin was my possession or anything. My knuckles were at least a few inches off the ground, thank you very much.
"Extra large, at least according to my gloves," I acknowledged just as I pulled the Beetle off of the main highway and onto a side road. Just a bit farther down here and we could park and then hike the rest of the way in. "Only one way to find out if they serve your purposes."