nineteen ☼ voice

[deshabille]

Ins-and-Outs, if you happen to be in or out anywhere, feel free to report. I imagine many terrible things are happening, and I'd love to have my day ruined by them.

Enterprising extraDiscworlders, feel free to entertain me before breakfast. I have a whole hour.

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[deshabille]

Are you happy?

[surfaceshine]

Yes.

[More than he can ever remember being.]

[deshabille]

Good.

That's good.

[Maybe it's all worth it, then.]

[surfaceshine]

Are you?

[deshabille]

Of course.

[surfaceshine]

Mal.

[deshabille]

Mm?

[surfaceshine]

Look, as much as I'd love to come down and play cards with you, have a couple beers, throw you out of a chair, and then break every piece of furniture in the room to get it out of you or settle it, this is what I got and I don't know how long it'll last.

[deshabille]

I'm not asking you for any of that. I only wanted to let you know I'm making progress.

[surfaceshine]

You never had to ask.

But good.

[deshabille]

I'm happy. I wouldn't lie about that.

[She is lying about that.]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean knows she is. The problem is there's not much he can do about it from here.]

I almost broke Sammy's nose playing war. Either he's a wuss or I need to chill out again.

[deshabille]

He's probably a wuss.

[surfaceshine]

Hey, that's my kid brother you're talking about.

[deshabille]

You suggested it.

[surfaceshine]

He's my brother!

[deshabille]

Your wuss brother.

[surfaceshine]

Still mine.

[deshabille]

Fine. I won't call him a wuss. I'll just heavily imply it in tone and expression.

[surfaceshine]

How about you heavily imply in tone and expression what else the good goddamn is going on around there?