Bottom of the Barrel
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Coda had nothing to lose. Given to life on the streets at the age of twenty, he's been struggling along, busking where he can for cash. When offered a chance to escape the dead-end town, he decides he'd rather take the chance on his strange travel-partner than stay where everyone knew the name his parents chose for him.
Rivet is an ex-convict, not even thirty yet, busking on the streets just the same as Coda, but in the younger man's eyes, he sees a fierceness that he remembers all-too well, and Rivet didn't want to see it extinguished as his had been. Helping a naive young man survive the world might make him feel like a normal person again-- or it could make him feel a whole new set of emotions.
Who's to say this won't be a learning experience for both of them?
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