1st Stanza Audio UN:Marsh

[gristle]

[The voice you hear is a teenage girl, and she sounds a little disgusted. Whether or not this post was an accident is up for debate. But she'll respond either way.]

What the fuck kind of place is this? I thought the adults were supposed to care. Sure doesn't look like it.

I need a cigarette.

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[gristle]

'Pertinent information?' Why do you talk like you're in an old movie?

[Weirdo.]

[nobasisinfact]

Because I'm old.

[gristle]

You don't sound that old.

[nobasisinfact]

By all accounts, I'm old enough to be your grandfather.

[gristle]

How old are you?

[Bev doesn't have tact when it comes to where Stan's living. She knows too much about shitty living situations.]

[nobasisinfact]

[Richard has no issues telling his age.]

54

[gristle]

That is old.

[nobasisinfact]

So I hear.

[gristle]

Why are you friends with Stan then?

[nobasisinfact]

He's a very intelligent young man.

[gristle]

Of course he is.

[Obviously.]

Why did you take him in?

[Bev.]

[nobasisinfact]

Because I have space and he seemed unhappy in communal housing.

[He was pretty sure anyone would be. That shit sucks.]

[gristle]

He would be.

[Bev could admit that. It wasn't for everyone. She herself was definitely loving it, because it meant freedom and privacy that she'd never really had before. It meant that she could smoke and skip school and do anything she wanted to.

But Stan wasn't like her, so she was glad that he had someone. Even if she didn't trust him.]

How are you weird?

[nobasisinfact]

I don't particularly find myself weird.

[Rude Bev, rude.]

[gristle]

[Tough shit, Richard.]

Stan says you are.

[nobasisinfact]

Then you'd have to ask Stan what makes him think I'm weird.

[gristle]

Hmm.

[It's a sound of noncommitment. Bev doesn't care as long as you're not hurting him.]

[nobasisinfact]

Anything else?

[He sounds amused.]

[gristle]

What do you?

[Don't sound amused with her, buddy! This is serious business.]

[nobasisinfact]

[He'll be amused all he wants kid. Haven't you heard he's an asshole?]

What do I what?

[gristle]

[Actually no, she hasn't.]

Do for a living.

[There is definitely an unspoken 'duh' in that tone.]

[nobasisinfact]

[Stan has clearly not informed her well.]

I'm a professor at the college.

[gristle]

What do you teach?

[nobasisinfact]

Philosophy.

[gristle]

Oh.

[Boring.]