[In another world, he probably would have trumped up some bogus reason to threaten Kevin with arrest. It's not that skateboarding is illegal, it's that bullying teenagers and threatening benign people with charges was a time-honored and habitual hobby for Ebbing PD.
But he's not a cop, and he's not back in Ebbing, and he's here looking to give Kevin an apology, so for a while he just sits at the edge of the park, watching the kid at a distance catch air and flip the skateboard around and exercise a sort of athleticism that makes Dixon's bones hurt just looking at it. He huddles there, a blanket wrapped around his shoulders like a shawl, looking miserable and ragged, shivering, face scarred up and Morgul blade-wound bandaged under his clothes. He exercises all of his little willpower in not pulling out of his few cigarettes and lighting up.
It's only when Kevin takes a tumble after an ambitious kickflip that Dixon musters it up to actually approach, dragging his feet as if remorse and guilt were shackles around his ankles. It's less that he thinks Kevin might be injured than that he feels he needs an "in" to actually approach the kid.]
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But he's not a cop, and he's not back in Ebbing, and he's here looking to give Kevin an apology, so for a while he just sits at the edge of the park, watching the kid at a distance catch air and flip the skateboard around and exercise a sort of athleticism that makes Dixon's bones hurt just looking at it. He huddles there, a blanket wrapped around his shoulders like a shawl, looking miserable and ragged, shivering, face scarred up and Morgul blade-wound bandaged under his clothes. He exercises all of his little willpower in not pulling out of his few cigarettes and lighting up.
It's only when Kevin takes a tumble after an ambitious kickflip that Dixon musters it up to actually approach, dragging his feet as if remorse and guilt were shackles around his ankles. It's less that he thinks Kevin might be injured than that he feels he needs an "in" to actually approach the kid.]
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