He pulled the gun away, dropped it into his lap. He crumpled over, his hands to his head, then moaned, “No.”
Is that a “no” of “no, I can’t shoot you”, or “no, please stop messing with my head”? Or maybe “no, this can’t be happening”?
She was close to her destination. She pulled the jeep to a stop and hopped out, the other jeep pulling up just a ten or so yards away. Two soldiers got out.
“Hey, fellas! How’d you like becoming my thralls along with your comrade? :)”
“Hey!” someone shouted at her.
She turned her back to them, slipping her ear buds in. The music had looped back to the first track.
Looks like she doesn’t give a shit.
Also that’s a short playlist, how long have you been deleting stuff from it?
She got her phone out and skipped forward a few times, pausing to delete one song. She sang along, “Love me, love me, you know you wanna love me…”
Just like at the beginning of the chapter. This would make a fantastic bookend with that, but… this doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the end of the chapter.