After Black Oil

[sime_channel]

Hours and hours later Suzi's hair is finally cleaned and she's made absolutely certain that Whistler knows just how much she loves him. She's listening to his heart beat and tracing patterns on his shoulder with one finger, "I'm, um. If you want to talk about it, Whistler? The worm and everything? I think I'm ready, now?"

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[dontlooklisten]

Whistler rolls the other shoulder around a little in a kind of stretch; he nods. "Okay," he says. "I'm pretty sure I'm ready myself..."

[sime_channel]

"Okay. What, um. Do you want to hear about?" She asks, smiling a little. Just a little, she's still a bit disoriented.

[dontlooklisten]

"I'm not sure where to start, honestly," says Whistler. "What'd you have to deal with, to start with?"

[sime_channel]

"There was a trash can that shot bullets!" She says with quiet shock, "And then a room full of people possessed by the oil. Then we found K? And he was alright...If he'd been possessed would he have been O-K?...and then some other people tried to get in, and then the worm ate them and then it tried to eat me and Richard and Richard blew it up from the inside."