Time works funny in Milliways.
Tommy comes into the bar at the end of his
shift at the firehouse, wanders out to the back porch, and finds that the sun is only just beginning to rise over the lake. The grounds are quiet and peaceful -- no sounds of traffic, of sirens, of people. He can't decide if he likes it or not.
What he does decide on, is to resurrect a vice.
From his jeans pocket he pulls out a pack of Marlboros, stolen from Garrity's locker, and a pewter lighter with the
FDNY Maltese Cross on it. With one end of a cigarette between his lips, he flicks at the lighter a couple times before it catches. He then holds the dancing flame up to the other end, his palm cupped around it to shield it from a slight breeze.
Tobacco, and tar, and nicotine, and
heat. His lungs breathe completely once more.
He sets the pack and lighter down on the porch railing and leans against it on his elbows, watching the sun rise through a thin haze of exhaled smoke.
[ooc: 9:45pm EST -- Annnnnd we have slowtime! Holy crap, thanks for all the tags. This will still be open to new tags until the slows get ludicrously slow.]