❰ an hour later, she'll be found sitting crosslegged on a bar-top with a mostly empty bottle of something opaquely brown held in both hands and resting in front of her. just barely within arm's reach in front of her is a series of four other mostly-empty bottles, 3 glass and 1 plastic, lined from tallest to shortest. she doesn't immediately notice he's arrived unless he makes himself known. until then, she's got distant eyes on the bottle in her hands and she's idly humming a song a few notes at a time. ❱
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