"You'd have to be a really big bat to carry this heavy fucker," Ellie mutters, following the eyeline of the scope to try to see what he's looking at.

She's got good distance vision, even if it's not up to what he'll be able to see, but everything across the harbor seems like darkness dotted with fireflies and vague shapes.

"... yeah, I can agree with that."

Looking back on her own youth, she was rarely up to anything within the rules when she broke curfew or snuck out. It was different now that she was an adult, but perhaps that was simply because there were fewer rules to break.

"Somehow I don't think they're doing anything too crazy over there. Just a bunch of weird affairs."