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[notsaul]

[Flowers. Everybody likes flowers, right? Only a heartless monster wouldn't!

WELL

Annie resents flowers, all flowers, for reasons she does not care to go into for too many people know already THANKS DAN thank you very much. But, as Mayfield's national pastimes include baseball and irony, she is currently working in the very aptly-named local flower

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[strike_you_out]

[Slugger approaches the counter and stares quietly at Annie.]

[notsaul]

[staring

back]

What do you want, kid?

[strike_you_out]

I wanted to ask you something.

[notsaul]

I already know what you're going to ask and, yes, it's all real, and, yes, one time a bird really did live in it.

[strike_you_out]

[He tips his head slightly to the right. Annie, he really hopes you means your hair.]

I was... going to ask how you killed the Major.

[notsaul]

[... Yes. Her hair. Definitely.]

Oh, that! Yeah, I totally tore that fucker apart. It was awesome.

[strike_you_out]

[resting his elbows on the counter top]

Was it easy?

[notsaul]

... No. He's a fucking robot; that shit is hard as fuck. But, it's not impossible or anything.

[strike_you_out]

[leaning forward]

How much of him was metal?

[notsaul]

Most of him, the arms and legs and shit like that. Some of his face wasn't, so I got him there.

... What are you planning, kid?

[strike_you_out]

The face... [spoken to himself as if to commit it to memory]

I wanted to know. Just in case.

[notsaul]

Hey, if you're gonna murder his ass, more power to you. I think everyone should do it at least once; civil duty and all that shit, y'know? Just, like... Be careful or something. He does, like, weird shit to corpses and stuff.

[strike_you_out]

[Murder? Close, Annie, but not quite. Grinning, Slugger nods--]

Thanks.

[--and pushes away from the counter.]