Fire tower
Lookout
As long as it isn't smoke.
Last dry-season watch. Second floor of a national-park fire tower. Chaewon will not put down the Osborne Firefinder. “As long as it isn’t smoke.” Leave through the ladder hatch here, and you just hike down.
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About this work
Last dry-season watch. Second floor of a national-park fire tower. Pine resin and radio static. Chaewon is the lookout. Tied black hair, a khaki vest over a thin tank. On her left ring finger, a compass instead of a wedding band.
“As long as it isn’t smoke.” The hatch still opens. Hike down and the night-watch job is over. Stay in the cabin, and the affair is two people on the same POV shift.
Characters
- ChaewonFire lookout · married
- MeNarrator · supply-helo ground crew
- HusbandRadio only · mentioned
