[An artful way of affirming that it’s cool while not actually admitting that it’s cool. Whelk considers staying standing. It feels comforting to be able to lord over someone who is normally the same height as him. It would be more comfortable though to sit down, as his lack of sleep this morning paired with the atypical amount of physical exertion undergone last night is making his legs feel like rubber. On Saturdays he’d usually start drinking again by now and try to pass out.
[He takes a seat in the folding chair on the other side of the porch (the set was cheap, but it had come with two, and a shitty folding table that sits between them now). He pulls out a cigarette from his pack and hands it to Kunimi.]
Try a camel. [Then he pulls a Marlboro out of Kunimi’s pack and flashes the boy a look with no real smile behind it, but a teasing air behind his eyes even so. He sets both packs on the table between them and lights up.
[He then hands Kunimi the lighter. No need to play the lighting card too many times. It will lose its sheen that way, he thinks.]
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[An artful way of affirming that it’s cool while not actually admitting that it’s cool. Whelk considers staying standing. It feels comforting to be able to lord over someone who is normally the same height as him. It would be more comfortable though to sit down, as his lack of sleep this morning paired with the atypical amount of physical exertion undergone last night is making his legs feel like rubber. On Saturdays he’d usually start drinking again by now and try to pass out.
[He takes a seat in the folding chair on the other side of the porch (the set was cheap, but it had come with two, and a shitty folding table that sits between them now). He pulls out a cigarette from his pack and hands it to Kunimi.]
Try a camel. [Then he pulls a Marlboro out of Kunimi’s pack and flashes the boy a look with no real smile behind it, but a teasing air behind his eyes even so. He sets both packs on the table between them and lights up.
[He then hands Kunimi the lighter. No need to play the lighting card too many times. It will lose its sheen that way, he thinks.]