[Badou goes belly down on the pavement (it's not the first time), angling the stick down, craning his face to see what exactly she dropped -- and the key packet glints in the gutter roughage like a toy inside a crane drop]
[it takes him a good five tries, and he bangs his larger limbs on the grate several times, (Badou was clever, but application was almost always a problem), but eventually he withdraws the stick]
[with the keys mashed against the gum]
[sitting on the hot pavement, he holds the gross retrieval tool out to her]
no subject
[it takes him a good five tries, and he bangs his larger limbs on the grate several times, (Badou was clever, but application was almost always a problem), but eventually he withdraws the stick]
[with the keys mashed against the gum]
[sitting on the hot pavement, he holds the gross retrieval tool out to her]
Here.