An interesting idea. I'll be interested to see how it all pans out.
It took me a while to realise that the same scene was being described from both Brenda's and Lane's points of view in the two halves of this chapter.
I'm just not too sure whether I would have put the 'not knowing he had less than a month to live' piece in this early in the story, though...
Thanks, Kitt
It's not actually new. It was taken maybe 8 years or so back. Not sure if I really look like that now. Apart from anything else I've my hair in a ponytail these days.
EDIT: I've just checked the EXIF data on the original photo. It was actually taken 13 years ago. My, how time flies!
Apparently there's an area in Chester, England, that is known locally as Nowhere.
It's a spot close to a weir on the River Dee, which flows through Chester. The locals originally called the area Nigh Weir (which basically means near the weir). When the word nigh started to fall into disuse, the locals forgot the original meaning of the place name, and started to just call it Nowhere instead.
(And so endeth Marty's Interesting but possibly useless fact #735)
Hey, Gary!
I worry just as much about Pi Boy's empty threats as I do about the temper throwing tantrums of a young child that threatens to hold his breath until he dies.
(Anyway, he can't nuke Ireland. We're a nuclear free country 😛 )