If you were me you’d do the right thing, help your friends, because you’re not a coward,” Mandy sighed sadly. “I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing… well, now’s my chance to do the right thing, to save someone’s life, because I don’t want you to die.”“Save someone’s life? I’m no one,” Alec to laughed morbidly. “A hundred and twelve years is definitely way too long to have survived. You’d be wasting your time and risking your own life….”“This is my life,” Mandy declared, smiling sincerely. Alec to just looked concerned and very doubtful as the rain drizzled down the roads and sidewalks, towards the harbor where it fell into the ocean, indistinguishable from all the other water in the world.
— Rebecca McNutt
Smog City
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