To be clear, Lucy looked both ways before crossing the street.
But the corner to her left had a lot of foliage, so the visibility in that direction wasn’t great. Even so, whoever was driving that truck was clearly driving recklessly.
+235 xp!
“XP lets you buy levels, which are a sort of…I have no idea how to explain levels to someone who’s never played a game involving them. Uh, level increases are how you represent someone becoming more powerful, basically.”
“Uh, because we defeated an enemy, basically. I assume. I got one xp earlier in a timeline I threw away, for squishing a bug that turned out to belong to Deskari.”
“Hmm. In real life, you get stronger by taking risks…fighting is the easiest way to do that,” she says sadly, “but you don’t have to.”
“I suspect we’re going to have to fight a lot of things anyway. Just because of all the demons.”