“ whoa , calm down , babe . that's like a lot of words for me to process at once , ” she tells phoebe , trying her best to recall what the girl was even saying in the first place —— something about her eating glue as a kid , something wrong with the alcohol , something . . . well , something for sure . “ okay , first of all , you don't even sound that fine to me right now but you know what ? that's fine , i'm not gonna judge . why are you acting so suspicious though ? like are you sure it's just a wrong kind of alcohol instead of , you know , glue ? although i'm not sure how you even got glue in here , but then again you said you used to eat glue a dozen times as a kid , so maybe i'm judging a little . old habits die hard after all . ” there's no hint of malice in camille's words , however . “ ninety - nine percent discount for a drink that could cost me my fucking life isn't gonna cut it . i'll tell you what , ” camille tries to propose , a glint of mischief in her eyes . “ maybe if you share the drink with me , i'll consider it done . at least we're in it together if , god forbid , something wrong happened . what do you say ? ”
open. int. crane's crooning den - night, but there's never quite an acceptable time for her bs. @nepofmstarters
listen, chum, airstrip one has nothing on phoebe crane’s attention span. as a wise woman once added to her essay seconds away from submission, the whole death of the author deal totally applies to authoritarianism, and the prattling autocrats that purport themselves to be her bosses are recipe puritans to the point where all those words swim into her boston shaker and come out much of a muchness. what does that mean? that she is in so much trouble because she put her sanitiser in a miniature vodka bottle as a joke and put it next to an actual vodka bottle and left for fifteen minutes to yell at the dj about his awful taste in technocountry and she can locate neither bottle. she taps on the shoulder closest to her panicked flurry of motion, and her words come out a mile a millisecond. ‘ okay, listen, i ate glue, like, a dozen times when i was a kid, and i’m literally so fine now, right? look at my tongue. ‘ she sticks the relevant appendage out. ‘ the polka dots are from my lip balm – don’t ask how, industry secret – but my point is that if i happened to put the wrong kind of alcohol in here, nobody would mind, right? i mean, cranes don’t even croon, so clearly the shits given about detail are at a record low. ‘ then, in a sordid sort of whisper that’s as quiet as the trap jazz blasting through the bar: ‘ maybe you could test my whole hypnothermite out. hypothesis in. i don't know, man, just do it for the ninety-nine per cent discount. ‘ she has neither the executive power nor the economic prowess to deduct such a quantity from the sticky notes clinging to the counters, but they don’t need to know that.