[Rocket and Alec] escalation

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Since the attack on the Inn, the on-and-off war between Rocket and the asshole living with his neighbor had been mostly off. Fighting the dead things together had earned a cease-fire, but those never lasted forever, and it had felt like time to end this one. It called for something new, not just another glitter-paint bomb.

That was how Rocket came to be up a tree by the pool, turning a locket on a chain over and over in his hands. Pretty but useless.