Closed starter for @lizzie-levine
Kashir appreciated that Lizzie was willing to team up to set up a sort of food table at the town hall, partially out of the general appreciation of another set of hands but also because he had no desire to man such a resource the entire time until the storm blew over. Of course, he wouldn’t leave Lizzie in the lurch, but he figured the sooner resources were set up the better--the sooner folks in town could take what they needed.
Unless they hoarded resources. The anxiety of that idea sat in the man’s throat like a thick knot. The weather pattern they were dealing with had proven to be unpredictable thus far, and while people seemed to be grateful for the warming station and company in town hall, Kash had seen how resource scarcity could change neighbors into rivals quickly. But this was different, this wasn’t his childhood, the snow wouldn’t change the fact that at the end of the day there was enough to go around in and outside of the walls of the town hall.
Lizzie’s approach was a welcomed reprieve from the intrusion of anxiety that had begun to percolate up from the dredges of Kash’s subconscious. He’d had plenty of help carrying in the haul he had gotten from the market, so by the time Lizzie arrived he’d taken the initiative to set up a few folding tables. It seemed that she hadn’t exaggerated about having to clear the bakery in its entirety, so he quickly walked across the room to help relieve her of whatever pastry boxes and bags he could. “I’m glad you made it alright,” he offered in greeting. “The roads were pretty bad when I made my way over and it doesn’t look like it’s let up at all.” Kash set the bags and boxes he’d taken down on one of the folding tables and helped Lizzie set down the rest of the things she still carried. His hands had been bordering on numb when he had finished carrying the groceries in earlier, and he imagined she might have lost much of the feeling in her own digits too. “There’s hot cocoa over there,” he said, nodding toward another corner of the room, “if you want to grab some and warm up a minute. I can get started here.”
