(L) Snow can be a refreshing sight. Especially when it has all settled down and is calm.
(K) Sweetie, I agree with you on that. However, driving in it is a pain in the ass.
(L) Oh in no doubt do I disagree with that. Despite that not many people in Druisalle had vehicles to drive around with besides convoys and the occasion random lucky person, they at least knew how to drive. I don't understand how here in Orvanellia, that there are more people who have availability to use a car, and are absolutely terrible at driving.
(V) It really is that bad. Especially when the roads get icy and haven't been treated yet.
(K) There are just some people who just don't understand the concept of ice. That's how you get stupid shit like people doing donuts on the roads for fun.
(L) In the middle of winter? That just increases the amount of percentage your vehicle will flip over.
(K) And we've seen it up close before at an old apartment we lived at. Shade and Melissa were just chatting away as I was preparing dinner that night, and we were ignoring the tire squealing outside as best as we could. Then a series of metal crunching was heard.
When we looked out the window, said idiot was crawling out of their vehicle, which was now flipped on its side and covered in scratch marks with a large dent on the rear right side. Because of the slickness of the ice, they ended up drifting more than they usually did and slammed into a curb.
(V) Sounds like they had it coming.
(K) Shade started laughing and Mel literally opened the window and yelled out, "Smooth move you dumb fuck."
(L) Sounds like something she would do.
(K) Granted, this pissed them off and they started cursing back at her. It turned it a bit of a shouting match, up until Shade got fed up with it and told them to drop dead and closed the window. This was fine, until they found our jeep at the time and started beating it.
(V) Making enemies with Shade is not a good idea.
(L) Especially when she gets testy.
(K) We found out the next morning so Shade used her magic to pose as a random woman and ran into them. To sum it up quickly, she seduced her way in and stole their wallet and maxed out their card to pay for the damages. They did file for reports on that, but since Shade posed as something not common around here, it ended up as a dead end for them.
(L) I bet the collection team was not happy with this either.
(K) Not sure. They disappeared after a month since they had no car and there was no way to pay back all that money Shade stole.
(V) Back on the topic of snow covered roads, it snowed last week and we were on our way home.
(L) Ugh, right. Look, I've seen terrible road conditions before. But a light coating of snow on the road does not mean one should drive at a snails pace. Around a sharp corner, maybe. Depends on how icy it was before.
(K) It's as if some people have never seen snow before. And before the argument of, "Repairs and damages are expensive" comes up, we get that. But still, it's not that difficult to follow a pace that is laid right there.
(L) Especially if the road is clear. I swear, the person in front of us kept slowing down every two minutes they saw white drift across the road.
(V) I can only imagine Shade going off on them. We've all driven with her before.
(L) She's got a temper for sure. Her road rage is different though.
(K) She knows too and she's not proud of it. However, have you seen how some others drive?
(L) I am in no doubt saying Shade is the best driver, but I will definitely agree there are much worse drivers out there.
(V) Speaking of Shade, has anyone seen her or Melissa lately?
(K) She might be in jail again.
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(L) Why do you say that?
(V) And what for this time?
(K) You two know how we feel about lights, right?
(V) That depends on the environment. I do know you two aren't fond of l.e.d. lights.
(K) It's mainly because of how bright those get and our eyes can be a bit sensitive to those lights.
(L) That should be a given to anyone really. Eyes are sensitive organs along with our ears.
(K) Let me remind you that our hearing is better than our sight since we can hear things you three can't. Dog whistles are a good example.
(V) Because those left a tone deaf ringing to your ears, right?
(K) Yes. Yes it did. Along with an itch we can't scratch because at that point we are just poking our brains.
(L) That's that though. What would explain Shade's latest arrest?
(K) Consider me evil for agreeing with my sister on this. I honestly do not care. But l.e.d. lights. Should be fucking illegal on most normal vehicles that do not belong to militarized forces or emergency teams.
(L) Oh no... I already know how this goes.
(V) She found out where that one truck we pass by every morning is, didn't she?
(K) More than likely. But I think this is also her saying of, don't add these lights on your vehicles jackass. You're blinding people because of your wonderful installment.
Look, I get that it is difficult to see at night, or you want to watch out for the wildlife because damaged from hitting a deer, or something else that just pops up out of nowhere, that's expensive and or to the point where something is guaranteed to die. But if you have lights on that is bright enough to light a fucking football field with your vehicle alone, you deserve to get fucked out of your money.
(L) Honey, I sense a lot of spite in that.
(K) Tell me I'm wrong and that Shade isn't in the right?
(L) I'm not. While I get that those lights are excessive, but would vandalism be a good option?
(V) We're not going to disagree here Kitsuno. Just maybe, don't go as extreme as Shade would?
(K) Going to the extreme would be making our own car super reflective to blind them back. Or, and I quote from my sister, "Replicating the flash of a hydrogen bomb."
(L) Let's not do that at all.
(V) To either of those.
(K) Yeah yeah. Just let me say that if Shade and I don't do it, we know someone else out there who is more fed up with these kind of light are going to do exactly what Shade probably did.
(L) I can only imagine.
(V) Melissa probably is that other person if she isn't here either.
(L) She's either doing that, or trying to help Shade break out again.
(V) One of the two.
(K) Knowing her, she's possibly rewiring the lights incorrectly to the point where it will either cause the bulbs to explode from too much power being directed into them, or inverted the wires to where it is going to melt.
(V) Does she even know how to do wiring?
(K) Nope. The woman is good at picking locks, but keeping tabs on what wire goes where is where she has some issues.
(L) Didn't she accidentally start a fire in a machine because of that?
(K) I'm not gonna say yes to that since it did involve that factory. For all we know. It could have been accidental and her, but at the same time someone else also worked on that machine after she did her own fixing to it since nobody gave a damn to listen to her.
(L) Valid.
(V) It really makes me wonder on some of the things she has done. Has she been flying by on pure luck for a majority of the stuff?
(K) Up until she met us I would say. That's probably where her luck started to run dry.
(L) Especially after she decided to make Shade mad.
(K) Well to be fair, she did stab her in the ass.
(V) I would say she was very lucky there. Since Shade is the best thing to have happened in her life.
(L) True. Melissa did say she's been the happiest since she married Shade.
(K) And all it took was a mugging for them to meet.
(V) It's going to be an interesting story for them to tell their kids.
(K) Odds are they will probably make something up. Aside from Gale, I don't think any other of their kids know how their relationship started off.
(V) Maybe for the best.
