wolvendancer

"You're awfully calm," she said, seating herself solidly on the curb next to him. "Not like there's anything to do," he muttered. She laughed weakly. "Yeah, I figure if I was some chosen hero, I would've had some sign before now tell me how to stop this." She gestured to the panicking throngs surrounding them. He looked up sharply, suspecting her of mockery, but she had leaned back on her hands and was looking pensively up into the sky. "Still," she said, her wry smile fading, "I don't… There was a lot I wanted to do." He watched as her eyes grew melancholy and glistened with unshed tears. "Like what?" he prompted in a mumble. "O