[After stumbling over his words in such a manner he seems to lose the thread of what he was saying for a moment, and as though in a habitual movement reaches out to tip his glass again. All he gets is a little ice and melted water, but that's probably for the best, still.
Afterward, he sets his head back down on the bar counter and contemplates his bar snacks and perhaps life. His forehead tips forward against the fading coolness of the glass and he closes his eyes for a moment.]
... I can tell you this: it's all so dark... but the ending where someone just pulls away from the world... is so much darker. Please don't, all right?
[Perhaps if he were sober, it would be a much more eloquent appeal. Here, over the edge of sobriety and into the dizzying abyss at the bottom of a bottle that's what he manages.]
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[After stumbling over his words in such a manner he seems to lose the thread of what he was saying for a moment, and as though in a habitual movement reaches out to tip his glass again. All he gets is a little ice and melted water, but that's probably for the best, still.
Afterward, he sets his head back down on the bar counter and contemplates his bar snacks and perhaps life. His forehead tips forward against the fading coolness of the glass and he closes his eyes for a moment.]
... I can tell you this: it's all so dark... but the ending where someone just pulls away from the world... is so much darker. Please don't, all right?
[Perhaps if he were sober, it would be a much more eloquent appeal. Here, over the edge of sobriety and into the dizzying abyss at the bottom of a bottle that's what he manages.]