session 13 . video

[chaotica]

[ Here is Cambridge, seated at his desk, if the word 'seated' includes sprawled with feet up and uniform jacket open, revealing blue turtleneck underneath. He looks very comfortable. He may also have a glass of Scotch. ]

I'd like to conduct a survey. Call it personal patient satisfaction, if you think it's annoying.

Ready?

Now: Pick three adjectives to describe me. Support your choices with evidence and/or reasoning.

Thank you very much.

[ Cheers. He takes an apparently very satisfying sip of Scotch, letting out a little ah after. ]

Comments

[velocette]

[His gaze lingers on the blue turtleneck, then rests on the scotch for a while.]

Minatory, stately, poised. Why do you ask?

[chaotica]

...you find me threatening?

[velocette]

In an abstract sense, yes. You're the guide to the maze; in many ways that's more frightening than the monster at the center.

[chaotica]

How philosophical of you.

[velocette]

That's what they say.

Have anyone's adjectives fit your version of yourself yet?

[chaotica]

Oh, that doesn't really matter.

[velocette]

Then you must be learning a lot.

[chaotica]

A thing or two. Some of it a bit unexpected. I honestly don't know where you got the impression that I'm either stately or poised.

[velocette]

Most people here don't drink scotch, they toss it back and refill the glass with tequila or battery acid or whatever might get them drunk fastest.

[chaotica]

Toss it back with style, and you can be poised.

[velocette]

[He smiles]

Exactly. Besides, if you're intimidating, it keeps people from trying to bum a glass off you.

What do you do?

[chaotica]

I meant you can be poised however you drink it, sipping or gulping.

[velocette]

[He hums, maybe acknowledging that and agreeing, maybe just thinking.]

But what do you do?

[chaotica]

Depends on how miserable the world looks.

[velocette]

[That's a good answer, actually.]

How does it look right now?