“You brought equipment out on a mission without checking it first?”
“I did so fuckin’ check it!” Rees started coughing. “It went beep beep, I thought it was fine! Quit your
bitching!”
Snod could feel a blood vessel distending in his forehead as he growled low, “You’re supposed to be
waiting for me outside!”
“I had to make sure you were grabbing the right fuckin’ desk!” Rees was coughing harder, wheezing,
“You’re a fucking idiot!”
“I picked the one with the red chair! It’s the right one!”
“Well, you’re fuckin’ wrong,” Rees argued, desperately clearing his throat. He took a deep breath,
grunting, “It’s the other one.”
“How do you know?”
“Because,” Rees snorted smugly, marching over to examine the desk Snod was going to leave behind,
“Frankie told me he had carved his initials in one of the drawers.” He opened both drawers with a
dramatic flourish, pausing before saying quietly, “Huh.”
“What?”
“Fuck, just... Look in those ones!” Rees sighed exasperatedly.
Snod quickly popped open the drawers, smirking triumphantly when he saw a faint FBT scrawled
within. He didn’t have time to gloat that he had chosen correctly, dragging the chair back over his
shoulder and hauling the desk quickly toward the exit.
Rees strolled quickly, managing to move ahead so he could hold open the door for Snod to come
through with the furniture.
Even with the adrenaline pumping through him, Snod’s back and shoulders were starting to tire. He
passed the chair off to Rees, who cursed and complained but managed to get it into the back of the
truck with hopefully minimal damage.
When Snod tried to pull the desk through, it wouldn’t budge. It was too wide, perhaps only by an inch,
to make it through the doorway. “For the love of all that is fucking holy!” Snod hissed, his eyes gazing
skyward for any assistance that the divine might be willing to offer him at that moment.
His prayers were answered in the form of shattering glass, whipping his head to the side to see Rees
taking his shoe to one of the windows by the door. The windows extended from floor to ceiling and
were definitely wide enough to move the desk through unscathed.
