the renegade

Julia Lucas || Single || Outdated "It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

[andreashelfish]

Right, well….welcome back? Where were you camping?

[renegade-lucas]

Oh -- that's...thanks. The woods nearby, actually. Have you been?

[andreashelfish]

Okay…did you get hurt on this trip or something?

[renegade-lucas]

Not necessarily. 

[deconstructingjavin]

Damn. I mean I’ve heard people fuss about getting lost in there for weeks before. But decades…that’s a first. Are you relieved to be out of there? 

[renegade-lucas]

That...yeah, I'm...not the best kind of navigator. Not that being thirteen helped much.

I'm not...sure. At least I could adjust to living in the woods.

[andreashelfish]

…are you sure?

[renegade-lucas]

Uhm...yes.

[johnnyarcos]

Have you determined how long you’ve been lost, then?

[renegade-lucas]

Oh...I--uh.

[andreashelfish]

So where’d you go for all that time?

[renegade-lucas]

...camping?

[gunnardown]

Library might help. 

[renegade-lucas]

...I...uh-- where's would I found that?

[vinidrowning]

I’m asking if you remember anything from all the time you were lost.

[renegade-lucas]

Oh...that's...

I remember...some of it. I mean, it was the same thing over and over again, so there really wasn't much to remember. 

[gunnardown]

Never heard of it. 

[renegade-lucas]

Neither has he apparently.

[andreashelfish]

I think you look fine, really. I just didn’t want you to think I was insulting you or something.

Oh…so you’re from here?

[renegade-lucas]

I may have insulted myself instead, so I think you're good. You could say that, yeah.

[johnnyarcos]

How strange. But you remember it as it was, yes? I’m assuming it was still there when you wondered into the woods…

[renegade-lucas]

Of course -- we lived there. In the house, not the..uh, winery. Obviously. 

[tennismacinlouboutins]

I don’t know you so why should I care what you want?

[renegade-lucas]

I could say the same thing about you.

[gunnardown]

Which place? 

[renegade-lucas]

...The Hawthorne Estate Winery.

[johnnyarcos]

Oh, thank you for the compliment. I’ve not been in this town for even five years yet, so I suppose there are all sorts of things about its past that I would not know. How long has your family’s winery been gone?

[renegade-lucas]

...I'm not...sure? According to the clerk in there, there's no records of it in the last two decades, so. 

[vinidrowning]

… Do you remember anything that happened?

[renegade-lucas]

Are you asking if I...remember what it was like to be lost?

[tennismacinlouboutins]

Consider it a donation. 

[renegade-lucas]

I don't want it.

[andreashelfish]

I guess I mean more…confused. Like you have no idea what’s going on. I wasn’t commenting on your looks, really.

[renegade-lucas]

...oh, that's-- I didn't mean to call you out on anything if that's...sorry.

I just...haven't been in town for awhile and a lot of thing's have changed. That's all.