...well. (open)

[thornofcamorr]

Well. Locke is in his room again, the door closed and staring at the wall, sitting up on his bed. He has not had a good afternoon. He doesn't really look like he has for the past few months. It's amazing how fast all the masks break away. He doesn't look quite human, not with the wild look in his eyes and the way he's hardly moving at all. There's

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[tomboy_22]

Here's Anita. Not particularly pleased with Locke, since she saw Phedre coming from her shift and heard her crying in her room.

But.

Her loyalty is to Locke first, and Jaenelle is with Phedre, so she goes looking for answers.

She knocks on the door.

[thornofcamorr]

Locke is listening to her footsteps.

"If it's another lecture, 'Nita, take it somewhere else. I'm drunk, won't get through anyway."

He recognizes the beat of them. Some benefits to being a thief, anyway.

[tomboy_22]

"No use lecturing the drunk. Ain't no professor anyway."

She gets in.

[thornofcamorr]

"Not that kind of professor." Dryly.

He looks farther along that direction than he usually does. He swirls the wine in the bottle. "Gods. This stuff is awful. Didn't know they made shit this bad."

[tomboy_22]

"Lemme taste it." She extends a hand.

[thornofcamorr]

"Honestly? You probably don't want to." He eyes her. "And don't throw it out. I'm trying to get drunk enough to pass out."

[tomboy_22]

Hand is still there.

"I do, so I'll know how bad you're doing."

[thornofcamorr]

Locke shrugs and hands it over.

"I have three more bottles of the swill, just so you know."

[tomboy_22]

"I'm not going to sermon you about drinking, pup." She takes the bottle, smells it. "Eeeeeew. What's this, Dom Punishment 1898?"

[thornofcamorr]

"Good."

A pause. "No, I think someone just bottled cat piss and let it ferment for a while." He wrinkles his nose. "No one here has any taste in wine."

[tomboy_22]

Cyrano: *protests*

"It's awful. Why are you inflicting it on yourself?"

[thornofcamorr]

"I'm suffering from an acute case of too much thinking." He tosses some back, grimaces. "Getting drunk helps. Eventually."

[tomboy_22]

"Too much thinking about what, darlin'?" She puts away the bottle with a grimace, and sits next to him companionably.

[thornofcamorr]

"Hey, hey, bring that back," he says quickly. "I wasn't done. Everything, more or less."

[tomboy_22]

"Later, if you're nice," she puts the bottle between her legs. "Out with it."

[thornofcamorr]

"You want a list? It'd take too long. Oh -" He makes a noise, stands up, goes over to the cabinet, and gets out a different bottle. And has some of that, leaning against a wall. "And it's just depressing, anyway."