1 Work in Joel | SmallishBeans & Daniel M. | VintageBeef
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Beef had lived his whole life in the under-city. He was old enough to dimly remember the Anarchy, but he’d still been a kid back then. His parents had shielded him from it well enough, and he’d grown up in the near-surface. It wasn’t as though he escaped the pressure…especially considering the crazy conspiracy theories still spouting from his buddy who made a habit of dumpster diving...ahem, that is, researching the old lab trash heaps in the Depths. He was pretty happy with himself though, with his butcher shop in the near-surface, with his steady regulars and occasional foot traffic. Perhaps he was also a strapping young man suffocating beneath bedrock, but he didn't feel his lack of breath. Maybe he could've made it in the over-city, but the acclimation program just hadn't been for him. This was good enough. They were all walking a knife's edge, but Beef had been walking it for as long as he could remember, so he felt settled enough.
So yeah. As far as he was concerned, life was not so bad.
{In which Beef sells beef, Joel gets flustered over his wife but what else is new, and some conspiracies are best proven by rooting around in twenty-four-year-old garbage}
(Hermit-A-Day May Day 1: VintageBeef)
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