“Can I Ask You To Clarify Something?”
the only feasible arrangement that could be made- your podunk store
- entirely lined with aquariums
- bouncer knew him by name
- sinister British accents
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“Can I ask you to clarify something?” the officiant asked. “Was this lava-lamp dress just blobs of melty goo, like, dripping off of her body?”
So, he was listening.
“Of course not,” the Tessabot protested. She turned to me. “Right?”
“Right,” I said, still under her hypnotic power. “It was a multi-layered, semitransparent construction, with the middle layer being liquid. This was the only feasible arrangement that could be made to fit my previous description, don’t you think?”
“Oh!” Tessa squeaked. “I actually have memory records of… I mean, I remember that drress. I even remember telling the shopkeeper, ‘This is the only worthwhile item in your podunk store,’ which evidently used to be a pet store because the back room was entirely lined with aquariums. He just rolled his eyes, and I think he overcharged me.”
I used the time while she reminisced to step up my attempts at overcoming her control. If she made me carry on telling the story, it would distract me from Goldfishing. Fortunately, now that she had taken up the tale, the Tessabot was happy to continue.
“This handsome devil popped out of a bus, and took me directly to a club where the bouncer knew him by name and all the bartenders spoke in sinister Bristish accents.” She paused to beam a smile at me. “I was swept away.”
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