By now, Joan's probably as much an expert on him as anyone is, which means she probably knows that Merle Dixon deals with negative feelings in extremely healthy and productive ways.
The first walker takes him by surprise, stumbling into view even as he goes looking for it; it's enough that he retreats a few paces with a grunt, but he turns the distance into a lunge, spearing the thing through an eye socket and drawing back before it drops like a sack of cement.
With an all-too-cheerful whoop, he crashes into the brush in search of more. The action, the distraction, it's just as necessary as the food she's getting.
She follows him slowly, eventually stopping the car near the point in the line of trees where he went off road. She can't stop him from whatever masculine ritual he feels like he's completing, and she'd rather not even if she could. This is his gross bullshit, his stupid baggage. If he gets himself killed, it's one less mouth to feed.
And then, you know, it won't be her. Sometimes she wonders if it'll be her. He's the kind of person she'd end up killing, if patterns repeat themselves.
Whatever. She climbs out the jeep's sun roof, sitting on the top with her rifle in her lap, and she waits. He'll come back or he won't. She'll give him an hour.
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The first walker takes him by surprise, stumbling into view even as he goes looking for it; it's enough that he retreats a few paces with a grunt, but he turns the distance into a lunge, spearing the thing through an eye socket and drawing back before it drops like a sack of cement.
With an all-too-cheerful whoop, he crashes into the brush in search of more. The action, the distraction, it's just as necessary as the food she's getting.
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And then, you know, it won't be her. Sometimes she wonders if it'll be her. He's the kind of person she'd end up killing, if patterns repeat themselves.
Whatever. She climbs out the jeep's sun roof, sitting on the top with her rifle in her lap, and she waits. He'll come back or he won't. She'll give him an hour.