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Kind of a dangerous place.
But, as I settled into myself here in Vegas, joined a pack, as Tati had phrased it, it made the things in my head much less dire.
The whole world wasn’t against me.
There werepeople who gave a shit if I lived or died.
Maybe Iwasn’tjust a nightmare come to life.
Fuck.
I wanted to bury that thought, but I was coming to understand that burying shit didn’t really do anything. At best, it remained under the surface, waiting to bubble up at an inopportune moment.
At worst… itthrivedthere, making deep unshakable roots and you ended up growing something you never wanted to nurture.
I didn’t need either of those.
I took another puff – anotherfewpuffs – and managed to settle back into my meditation. I was immersed for a while before I felt a shift in the energy around me.
Not a disturbance, just a shift.
I opened my eyes to find Tati peeking through the closed atrium door. Raising an eyebrow, I gave her a little wave that seemed to embarrass her. Her eyes went wide like she hadn’t expected to get caught watching me.
Instead of walking off, she slid the door open. “I amsosorry. I was just peeking to make sure you were okay. I didn’t think you’d noticed me,” she explained.
“You’re a hard woman not to notice,” I told her. “You want to join me?”
She lifted an eyebrow and her gaze fell to the joint I was holding. “Is that ours?”
“What kind of product ambassador would I be if it wasn’t?”
She laughed. “Product Ambassador.I don’t think that job title exists in our organization.”
“Well, while we’re waiting on the dispensary to be cleared as a damn crime scene, you can think about why maybe it should be. Come here,” I told her, patting the ground next to me.
After a short moment of hesitation, she padded over to where I was in an oversized t-shirt, and took a seat on the blanket with me, willingly taking the joint when I passed it her way.
I watched as she sucked the smoke in, holding it for a moment before she blew it all out in a perfect stream before she handed it back to me for my turn.
“This might be a pretty solid way to start the day,” she mused, after a couple rounds.
“I was just thinking about that.” I chuckled.
“You do this every morning?”
“Most mornings, the last couple weeks. Sometimes a bit of light yoga, meditation.”
She smiled. “Yoga and meditation? I can’t say I would have predicted that.”
“Why? I don’t look like I do yoga?”
“You look like you kill people.” She laughed. “Which… I guess wouldn’t exclude you from yoga.”
I shook my head. “Ilook likeI kill people? Damn, here I was thinking I was incognito.”
She reached out, grabbing my hand.“Let me rephrase that. It’s not that youlook like it,” she explained. “More like…you have this certain energy.”
“All the time?”
