>>18882739Carmody smiles back at Sola.
>"Hey, that all sounds good to me. I'll be down at the Dojo for my morning usual, and my brother Bree's gonna to text when he gets into town. Then I've gotta haul my stuff up to the apartment and get it unpacked. But we'll have dinner and booze and we won't make it any more of a job than it has to be. You should totally drop by!">"But yeah, tonight? Nothing crazy. Maybe I'll just walk with you back to the Dojo and we call it a night, huh?" Carmody walks with Sola to leave the arena with their things, and is gobsmacked to see the chaos downtown. Full winter weather in early October, with snow and chilling winds. Worse, the streets are full of penguins, and in the distance there's some kind of chaos developing with explosions and flying chunks of ice and snow and what appears to be a giant war machine. This is the kind of thing Colby used to talk about happening around Miss USA!
>"How'd it get so cold!? And why the fuck are there all these penguins out here!? What is EVEN happening!?"The question's not directed to Sola, precisely; Carmody's just venting. A penguin approaches her and goes "WAAKwakwakwakwkwk," perhaps to try to explain, but she pays it no mind and starts heading back to the Dojo with Sola. Fortunately it's not a long walk, but it's not conducive to the sort of talk that she wanted to have with Sola either.
