Washing while talking. He likes being able to speak at a normal volume, isolate the sound of conversation away from the sound of the water; little things, interesting things, making this new life better than the old one. (You don't know what mortal life is like, man. You've forgotten.)
"I think so, it's always hard to gauge with cultural and language barriers, but I have some experience about what alcohol-impaired people act like."
One of his many extremely impressive skills.
"But they—"
Briefly dazzle-distracted by Louis rinsing water off of him like a woman in a soft-core erotic thriller from the 70s.
Anyway.
"So, they wanted to play the 'knife game', which doesn't have a name, you know the," here he gestures, one hand splayed out flat, the other gesturing over it, to mime taking a knife and stabbing between each fingers. "That thing. And I started to freak out because I wasn't going to be able to do that even sober, and I thought they were pressuring me to torture me, because they're deranged Russians. It turned out they thought I could probably just do it because they've only ever seen it in American movies, and would never have suggested it if they weren't hammered."
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"I think so, it's always hard to gauge with cultural and language barriers, but I have some experience about what alcohol-impaired people act like."
One of his many extremely impressive skills.
"But they—"
Briefly dazzle-distracted by Louis rinsing water off of him like a woman in a soft-core erotic thriller from the 70s.
Anyway.
"So, they wanted to play the 'knife game', which doesn't have a name, you know the," here he gestures, one hand splayed out flat, the other gesturing over it, to mime taking a knife and stabbing between each fingers. "That thing. And I started to freak out because I wasn't going to be able to do that even sober, and I thought they were pressuring me to torture me, because they're deranged Russians. It turned out they thought I could probably just do it because they've only ever seen it in American movies, and would never have suggested it if they weren't hammered."