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coming in from the cold
Nov. 29th, 2012 11:54 amHe's gone for a month, and then he's back again, sitting on Tony's balcony, lighting one cigarette off the next, eyes closed.
Nov. 29th, 2012
It ends with Peter sending Tony inside for the night. He needs time alone to think, he'll feel better if only one of them is out in the wind. So he stays on the balcony, wrapped in a blanket, nursing tea (why does Tony make tea reflexively now that people are panicking? He'll sort that out in his head when his thoughts aren't humming like bees) and still chain smoking.
Peter smokes unfiltered cigarettes, and lights the end with the manufacture's name closest to it first so it burns down quicker. If he has to drop one and run it makes people less likely to recognize 'his' brand of cigarettes or spot that it isn't a brand that can be bought locally, or to trace him back to a corner store. Reflexively, he lights each one this way, remembering time on the run in Algiers, time before that in Dresden, Mundt's hissed anti-semetism and Richard's short trimmed fingernails. He keeps smoking.
Peter smokes unfiltered cigarettes, and lights the end with the manufacture's name closest to it first so it burns down quicker. If he has to drop one and run it makes people less likely to recognize 'his' brand of cigarettes or spot that it isn't a brand that can be bought locally, or to trace him back to a corner store. Reflexively, he lights each one this way, remembering time on the run in Algiers, time before that in Dresden, Mundt's hissed anti-semetism and Richard's short trimmed fingernails. He keeps smoking.