He never told you what it was, just handed you a greasy bottle and told you to take as much as you needed and, with the world on its last legs, you downed half the burning liquid in one gulp. It burned your throat and eyes and made everything soft around the edges and the less you saw the safer you felt so you took another swig.
He didn't say anything - didn't even look at you slowly losing your sobriety in favour of sanity though both would be gone before long. The fact that you still realised this meant you weren't drunk enough but before you could have a third go he gently put his hand over yours and stayed the bottle still.
Another portal had opened up in the sky and the initial scouts were flooding out to swarm and devour. You both sat there in silence and stillness as the world screamed around you. Once the swarm had returned he let your hand go and you resumed your descent to the elusive bottom of the bottle
The portal stabilised and another colossal beast flowed out like a river made of meat and claws. You handed the bottle back and watched as he finished it, your vision just as swirled and distorted as the air around the portal. It was hard to say which was making you more nauseous.
It would only be a matter of time before you'd either be spotted by returning scouts or by a beast or maybe you'd get lucky and drown in a pool of your own vomit with some guy you met three hours ago who now felt like the only person you ever really knew.
Either way, you were ready to go and judging by the way he was swaying, he'd be joining you.
He didn't say anything - didn't even look at you slowly losing your sobriety in favour of sanity though both would be gone before long. The fact that you still realised this meant you weren't drunk enough but before you could have a third go he gently put his hand over yours and stayed the bottle still.
Another portal had opened up in the sky and the initial scouts were flooding out to swarm and devour. You both sat there in silence and stillness as the world screamed around you. Once the swarm had returned he let your hand go and you resumed your descent to the elusive bottom of the bottle
The portal stabilised and another colossal beast flowed out like a river made of meat and claws. You handed the bottle back and watched as he finished it, your vision just as swirled and distorted as the air around the portal. It was hard to say which was making you more nauseous.
It would only be a matter of time before you'd either be spotted by returning scouts or by a beast or maybe you'd get lucky and drown in a pool of your own vomit with some guy you met three hours ago who now felt like the only person you ever really knew.
Either way, you were ready to go and judging by the way he was swaying, he'd be joining you.
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