💣 004 | text | backdated to the 10th

[devoutish]

[Who knows who this is meant for. Whoever it is, they're not getting it; it's showing up on the public network instead.]

I bring her sweetbread, she's got wine in the kitchen, things are going very nicely. Then a giant fuck-off snake slithers into the room, as long as I am tall and thick as my forearm.

I'm telling you, mate, I nearly left right then and there.

Comments

[devoutish]

No? Not even the large ones?

[instars]

No.

[devoutish]

Mm. Unusual.

[instars]

Well, the usual is hardly my area of interest.

[devoutish]

Then this place - this whole situation, right - must be very interesting to you.

[instars]

Oh yes. Especially the people.

[devoutish]

Yeah, they're all right enough, I suppose.

[instars]

Yes.

They do such stupid things.

[devoutish]

And you?

[instars]

Do I do stupid things?

[devoutish]

Yeah. Or are you gonna tell me you're the single exception?

[instars]

Do you think I'm not a person?

[devoutish]

Where is that idea coming from?

[instars]

Well, I'm a person.

And so it goes that yes.

I do stupid things too.

[devoutish]

[Not the answer he'd been expecting, but he likes it better than the alternative.]

Yeah. My condolences.

[instars]

Name?

[devoutish]

Alfie Solomons. And you?

[instars]

Satya Wallace.

[devoutish]

Been here long, Satya Wallace?

[instars]

A little over a year now. Not so long.

[devoutish]

Sounds long to me.

[instars]

Not really. It doesn't feel long.

When you're here a year, you'll understand.

[devoutish]

I hope it never comes to that.