@didntaskforthis /// continued from here.
❝It’s much worse. This is an awful awful place. Every inch of it is perverted. Even the sand.❞
He spoke in a quiet hurt voice like a child’s, head leaned against the hood of a cherry-red hotrod Wez had chained him to earlier that day. They had had a little spat. It wasn’t unusual but so nasty Golden had gone back on the chain again, not that he had anywhere to go if he was unchained. It wasn’t that unbearable. They fed him alright and that was more than he could say about his mother.
He was just in a bad mood. His face was getting sunburned and he was running out of water. If Wez didn’t come back the situation would turn dire by sundown. Or whenever the owner of the car showed up, got pissed off and ran over him.
❝No, they don’t trade here. Don’t you see. They’ll rip you apart like a lace doily and take all you’ve got. These aren’t people you can talk to. I’m not lying to you. I’m chained to a car, what motive would I have to be unhonest?❞