" Can I Ask You Questions? " There Are Many Things The World Is Lacking Now, But Music Still Remains.

" can i ask you questions? " there are many things the world is lacking now, but music still remains. a great ᴄʀᴇꜱᴄᴇɴᴅᴏ then followed by scattered arpeggios brought the audience to their knees in both grief and unanswered prayer. minor chords now play their ballads as robotic bartenders pass out tainted drink. nate has stumbled out of the bar and into the night. goodneighbor holds no answers and its music, while smooth, no comfort. a graveyard holds a few ferals he dispatches with an empty, and now broken, liquor bottle.

their snarls are only made of discordant notes. rian appears, and the noise in his head finds its rightful key. " just some questions about death. you know, light stuff. " @ischaron

" i'll take the smoke. " nate mumbles about keeping dogs and cats but not cows and tries to forget his own confusion over breeds. two puffs taken and he pinches the end out. " sorry - forgot nor was getting me to stop. what about other animals like sheep? goats? what about hamburgers? pork??"

"Didn't know you were pious...there's a sit n' pipe-down church in the Diamond if you're so worked up over ya brahmin. Or ya can settle with this." He hands him a cigarette.

❛ your heart is beatin’ so fast righ’ now. ❜

" does it match yours? " they tell you history is written by the victorious. they don't tell you about the devastation those victors leave behind. nate surveys the damage. he sees the bodies they've left behind. the touch of death is against his chest; a palm presses over his heart and studies the rhythm. nate's head dips low, a hand moving to lift the edges of the cowboy hat. " got a lot of work to do here. " he grunts, dropping his hand to rian's shoulder. " but i think we take a break first. "

SINDAY FACTS that are depressing! I love this idiot.

The first person he fucks is pressed into the mattress, face first, and Nate closes his eyes and thinks of Nora. He barely speaks, just ruts into them like if he fucks hard enough, they'll turn into her. Like pressure on coal until it turns into a diamond (a wives tale, something that won't ever be true.)

And then he goes celibate for several months because he feels terrible about it. Because he knows he did get some enjoyment from it, sort of.. - and in his guilt he does not believe they did too - so the next few times, he pays for it and keeps his eyes closed and head fallen back. (Besides, it's the world's oldest profession. The world wouldn't be the world without it.)

Alan Ritchson in Reacher Season 2

" I have never done business on an empty stomach, sir. " The restaurant is crisp, clean, and closed, save for one table right in the corner by the broad window. Nate's stretched out. His figure is usually intimidating, but the way he holds the fork and steak knife are careful and elegant. Purposeful. He takes a bite of the meal and hums in delight. "And I mentioned, everything is on the house tonight. Please, feel free to order whatever you like."

That doesn't include the wine on the hidden menu. Nate isn't flaunting too much in front of a badge. "I am told you are a persistent man." @givcns