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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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Castelia City, Unova

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Erin Caulfield

shaken, not stirred

POSTED ON Aug 13, 2020 15:45:42 GMT

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There's a face that keeps her awake at night. Has been for a year, give or take. So she goes out at night to drink and forget, or so she'd like to claim. By now, she's acquainted with bartenders from at least half the region, her visits commonplace even on weekdays. The truth is, Erin has come to crave the warmth of a club filled with dancing bodies, the background noise of animated conversation as she sips her vodka. Shaken, not stirred, and she'd laugh at the irony of her situation.

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The room grows quiet and her attention is drawn to the broadcast responsible for it.

Newsflash: politician's death leaves unanswered questions.

Found in a family member's house, empty save for him. A bullet straight to the heart. An easy way out, weighted against the crimes he was being prosecuted about, in her opinion.

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"Better now than after years of imprisonment," she says to no one in particular. What a fuss the media was making over something so clearly staged. She would know, though—it's what her own family still does in Unova.

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He's not the barhopping type. Never has been, really. Even as a teenaged radical taunting every form of rebellion writhing under the sun, reeking counters in low lit rooms were just never his scene, traded in for rainy street corners or, if he was really that desperate, the hallway out from his dealer's one bedroom apartment. Alcohol just wasn't the escape of choice: not then, not now. Tonight, he loiters only in the hopes of cooling off, escaping the night's heat into some much-needed AC. (Tragically, packed in tight light Wishiwashi, body heat brushing body heat, it's hardly much better.) Tonight, he drinks only because he's been kicked out of places like this before for not handing over his pocket change – these days, that's about all he's got. Oh well.[break][break]

Nikki's just begun nursing his drink (cheapest on the menu, and it shows) when the woman sat nearest to him at the bar breaks her silence, as well as the lull that had swept over the room around them: Better now than... The suddenness of the noise and the lack of context draw his gaze up to her before it follows her own to the screen tilted down at them from above. 'Politician' in bold letter's got him sneering in an instant, but the 'dead' part sparks up something almost joy not long after.[break][break]

“Assuming they'd ever actually lock 'im up.” Money is power, after all, and the courts hang on strings, marionettes of whoever's got the most of it to throw around.[break][break]

Normally, there's not even a question of whether he's going to open his mouth to the nearest stranger – of course not, why would he? – but what can he say? It's not like he disagrees with her, and that doesn't happen every day. Sardonically, with a smile as poisoned as it is crooked, he asks, “Not sorry for a dead man?”

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Champ

Devil wears Prada

She/her

Twenty-two

May 13

Castelia City, Unova

Demisexual

Undercover mean girl

Executive

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111 height

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Erin Caulfield

shaken, not stirred

POSTED ON Aug 14, 2020 4:36:22 GMT

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The man's words hold some truth to them, and that warrants a glance towards her bar neighbor. This politician's crimes were not the first to go unpunished, and they sure wouldn't be the last. Had they not been exposed to the public, Erin is certain none of this would be questioned. He would walk away without a second glance, shielded by others just like him. Still, it's a "Point taken," and she's happy to let the topic rest after that.

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That is, until he delivers his follow-up question. Is she sorry? She lowers her glass to the counter, unsure of whether to lie and save face, or tell the truth and blame it on the alcohol. In the end, neither of these excuses becomes the driving factor for her answer. Truth is liberating, and what better circumstances would she find? Whom better to be truthful to than a complete stranger, under the secrecy of a dim light and many whispering voices?

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"Should I be? He can't feel dejected when he's dead." The hypocrisy of funerals never failed to make her laugh. "Even alive, I could not defend someone like him. Why? Do you feel sorry for him?"