“They should have put padding here,” he says to no one.
This is the . Not metaphor. Literal.
Dez can’t stand. So he fights sitting down. He throws sand. He uses a snapped shovel handle from a broken sandbox toy to parry Viktor’s stomps. Viktor, winded but not broken, drags Dez to the —that geodesic cage of steel pipes where children learn to trust their grip. Street Brawlers- Adult Playground -Battle 6.2-