Savages

179

Focus, focus, Ben demands of himself.

Focus on saving O.

With one of theirs killed, the BC will feel obligated to Do Something About It and they might do it to O if they suspect our involvement in the robbery.

Gotta give them someone else.

It’s too bad, the dope is mid–six figures but they have to dump it. Dump the dope and their guilt onto Somebody Else.

It’s ugly, it’s wrong, and—

They drive the van to Dana Point.

DP is a funky old surf town that has retained some of its funk. It used to be famous among surfers as “Killer Dana” for a big wave that crashed right onto the point of Dana Point. But then they built the harbor and the marina and fucked up the wave. All that’s left of Killer Dana is an eponymous—

—good word, Chon has postulated that

Alcoholics Anonymous is also

Alcoholics Eponymous—

—surf shop that maintains the legend, anyway.

Dana Point also has a small but distinct barrio with a small but growing gang problem. Ben has it in mind to give the small but growing gang problem a bigger problem. Chon pulls the van into the barrio, finds a nice little cul-de-sac, and leaves it there.

He and Ben walk.