Is there ever a good reason to get blindingly drunk?
I can think of far more good reasons not to become inebriated. And having been blind (albeit briefly) I should sooner avoid repeating the experience.
It will surprise nobody who knows me that alcohol - and other drugs, for that matter - tend to make me lose control of my temper. What might surprise them is that this a sensation I dislike intensely. I wish to be under no outside influence. As a Peacekeeper, I resisted the usual forms of recreation, preferring to set myself apart from the rest. As Talyn's captain, anything that interfered with my self-control was an unacceptable risk.
The last time I got drunk was on Valldon.
Seeing what I had done, I left Aeryn Sun's rented room without a word. In the absence of any reason not to give myself to oblivion I found the nearest bar and drank until I could no longer see Xhalax Sun falling, or feel her daughter's body pressing against mine, or hear the words she whispered in my ear. By the time I found myself retching in some filthy alley, I had seen and heard other things that made me wonder if the lesions from the cybernetic bleedback had reached my brain at last.
By the time I returned to Talyn, I was sober again. I have remained so ever since.
It will surprise nobody who knows me that alcohol - and other drugs, for that matter - tend to make me lose control of my temper. What might surprise them is that this a sensation I dislike intensely. I wish to be under no outside influence. As a Peacekeeper, I resisted the usual forms of recreation, preferring to set myself apart from the rest. As Talyn's captain, anything that interfered with my self-control was an unacceptable risk.
The last time I got drunk was on Valldon.
Seeing what I had done, I left Aeryn Sun's rented room without a word. In the absence of any reason not to give myself to oblivion I found the nearest bar and drank until I could no longer see Xhalax Sun falling, or feel her daughter's body pressing against mine, or hear the words she whispered in my ear. By the time I found myself retching in some filthy alley, I had seen and heard other things that made me wonder if the lesions from the cybernetic bleedback had reached my brain at last.
By the time I returned to Talyn, I was sober again. I have remained so ever since.