#rustonthreads

Ruston pulled their phone out again to see if maybe they'd missed a text or voice message from Percy. The other was supposed to have come picked them up over an hour ago. They were getting ready to text again when the screen went suddenly powered off. Rust had forgotten to charge it the night before, and had left the portable charger in Percy's car.

Phone died. Can I use yours? I'll buy you something

They wrote down first before going over to one of the other occupied tables, showing it to them and holding up the dead phone for emphasis and then made a gesture over to the counter.

who: ruston and silas (@grimsixthsense)

About every couple of weeks Ruston would find themself down at the cemetery, sometimes with Percy waiting in the car not too far away and sometimes just on their own if Percy was too busy. Today had been the second of the two. Like each time Ruston was armed with a cross body satchel filled with random knick knacks, a couple of snacks, and the occasional peanut butter and bacon sandwich.

It was during these visits that Ruston would wander amongst the tombstones, find the graves that had clearly gone unvisited either by lack of things like flowers being left or how unkempt they were and place one of the items from their bag at it. Sometimes it was random other times if there was something on the headstone they might see if there was something in their bag that day to match it.

They only had a couple knick knacks left in their bag when they spotted someone else on the grounds, one of the workers, and made their way over. Ruston gave a tap on his shoulder before reaching into their bag to pull out one of the unopened drinks from it and offer it.

who: Ruston and Copeland ( @exmcrtis )

Ruston gave a little rhythmic tap against the counter in an attempt to get Copeland's attention. They held up their notepad with just the word PERCY? written on it, and pointed back to where the back offices were wondering if their brother was still in or if he'd gone out to lunch already.