"Well," he says, mildly, "I've spent more time meditating here than I have actually socializing or exploring. It's entirely possible I could have missed any advertising."
"Impermanence, actually," Cooper says. Seriously. "Lilly, did you know that there's a Japanese rock garden down that hallway -- " With pointing. " -- that eats people?"
Cooper nods. "I had to get somebody in to get the sand out of my drain." That's matter-of-fact. "But it presents a dilemma: how do you word the sign to let people know that the Japanese rock garden -- which needs raking -- is man-eating?"
Dale Cooper is raising an eyebrow at his book. He shakes his head slightly, closes it, and makes to lift his cup of coffee --
But turns it into a small salute with his cup instead. "Evening, Lilly."
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"Evening, Coop. How goes?"
She lays a hand on bar and an extra dirty vodka martini materializes.
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Lilly shrugs.
"Bar seems to be having an open door special lately, so I've been meeting some new people."
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Lilly looks thoughtful.
"I should probably have someone from the paper look into how many new tabs have been added, see if it's something unusual."
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"Meg and I co-edit the Say True, the bar's newspaper. We started it like, over a year ago. God, I really need to do a better job of advertising."
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Lilly smiles sideways at him.
"You could have been so busy contemplating the essential nature of bulletin boards that you totally missed what was on them."
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"No, I did not. But somehow, I'm not surprised. Who did it eat, and where'd they end up?"
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"Damn. That's got to be the weirdest way of getting unbound I've ever heard of. You okay, Coop?"
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Lilly's reply is both matter-of-fact and based on a sign Xander once made about a shark.
"Then, if they end up in your drain anyway, you can charge them to get the sand removed."
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