1. She can’t remember when she stopped being scared, but it’s gone now. Instead, she’s just tired and cold and ready to die.

2. “Mmm, smells like rain.”

“You can’t smell water, it’s probably just the ozone from the lightning.”

“No, it smells like rain. You know, a little bit cold, sort of crisp and wet– it’s just, well, rain-smelling.”

“And you wonder why your psych profile has all those little asterisks in it…”

3. It shouldn’t have been hard to invent a wheel, after all, he knew what they looked like, but getting two round bits of wood to make the leap from ‘more-or-less round’ to ‘functional wheels’ was apparently a little more difficult than it looked.

4. Some people approached life with the idea that sanity was optional and if they managed to accumulate enough disadvantages the universe would reward them with fame and fortune just to balance the scales. Sadly, life was a lot less like a GURPS game than they imagined.

5. The problem with following deer paths were that deer were inherently fickle animals. He looked down the three foot drop that neatly bisected the trail and sighed.

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