(Untitled)

[song_of_stars]

This week, when Rai finds the bar tenderless on Sunday evening, she's prepared. She sets out coasters shaped like planets up and down the bar and ducks down (a completely unecessary gesture) to exchange her slouchy Athens University sweatshirt and yoga pants for a flowing togaish dress of midnight blue trimmed in spangles

Comments

[tanyadams]

"The largest vodka drink you can legally serve me." Tanya decided to get wasted tonight.

[song_of_stars]

"A ghetto hell? 4oz of vodka and 20 of malt liquor in a mason jar?"

[tanyadams]

"Sounds perfect; make it a double." Yes, she really means the wasted part.

[song_of_stars]

"Done."

A mason jar from the shelf and two very long pours later, there's a drink on the counter for Tanya.

[tanyadams]

She uses her hands to measure the jar and does a bit of mental math. "Fifty-four british ounces." The decision to get wasted did not make her become fiscally irresponsible.

[song_of_stars]

"I'll allow it. The second one isn't free, though, you've already got the measurement."

[tanyadams]

Now she smirks a bit, grinning and taking a long, long drink... then speaking. "And... what if I pick a different drink in a different glass?"

[song_of_stars]

"Then you get a second chance. Though I will say that the more times you try, the more likely it is you'll get it wrong..."

She giggles.

[tanyadams]

"No problem. My objective is to get wasted, just that..." Tanya sighs and drink in a pace that makes clear she means it. "Might not be a solution, but it helps."

[song_of_stars]

She leans in on one elbow.

"Legend says we bartenders are excellent listeners..."

[tanyadams]

"Not much to tell. There is a war, we are losing, and the enemy put a price on my head, large enough that some of my own countrymen might decide to collect, kill me and desert to the other side..." And she drinks.

[song_of_stars]

"That's very difficult. I'm sorry. War is, forgive the cliche, hell."

[tanyadams]

"Come spring, Stalin will march over our defenses, conquer Europe... and have the Soviet Union spread from ocean to ocean." She raises the jar in a mock-toast and drinks.

[song_of_stars]

"Don't rule yourselves out yet. Winter can be harsh, change minds."

[tanyadams]

"Stalin is not making the same mitakes napoleon did; he has good supply lines, he has more soldiers, tanks and planes, he has good strategy. And he fought thru one winter already."

[song_of_stars]

"And you believe he could conquer all Europe? It's been a long time since anyone had such an empire."