second flame 🔥 January catch-all

[olruggio]

🔥 Who: Olruggio + YOU
🔥 When: Throughout January
🔥 Where: DU + the problem areas around the Dream Sphere
🔥 What: Stuff and things!? He's a Saver, so he's been recruited to thaw everyone's sorry butts.

Comments

[predecir]

Venezuela.

[A lie, but the one he's kept to this entire time. It's close enough to home, and he knows enough about it, that he can fudge details. It helps that he's never met anyone here who's even been to South America. What would they know?]

So pretty far away.

[olruggio]

[there's a pause]

That is pretty far away... And I doubt very many places have chocolates like they do in Venezuela. Imported groceries tend to be massively overpriced.

[the pained complaints of a foodie...]

[predecir]

Ugh, yeah, I don't even look at those.

[complaints of a perpetually-broke guy....]

Whatever, it's fine. Got plenty of good food here too.

[olruggio]

Now that part I absolutely agree with! The quality at the prices they charge feels criminal sometimes. Definitely not something you can easily find elsewhere.

[maybe he'll get himself some ramen tonight...]

[predecir]

Eh, yeah, I guess that's true. I'd never even had most of this stuff before I got here! It was, uh, kinda the middle of nowhere, where I used to live. Not a ton of foreign restaurants, or.....restaurants...........

[olruggio]

Small town, huh? Bet the city was something of a culture shock. [with a sigh, he adds;] Both the glamourous side and the not-so-glamourous parts.

[predecir]

Heh. Yeah...

[It could've been worse, after the way they grew up, but they still never spent all that much time in cities.]

Well, you know, it's - it's a good place to go, if you wanna start fresh. Lots of, uh, other ex-pats. ["Ex-pats"? Is he one of those now? Bruno shelves that away to think about Never.]

[olruggio]

Hmmm... Can't say I ever thought of it like that.

[which is about when it strikes Olly that they've been talking for a while. Not that he disliked it, just that-]

Gah-! So sorry! Look at me chatting your ear off. [please, he doesn't want to face the looming deadlines] I didn't mean to keep you.

[predecir]

Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem, I'll just...

[Go somewhere else so this guy doesn't see him again later, still in the building!]