Second Stanza: audio UN: Marsh.

[gristle]

[The teenager's voice is just annoyed:]

Doesn't this place have anything normal like trick or treating?! Why does everything have to be dead people and scary stuff and ghosts?

Why can't it just be going around filling pillowcases with candy?

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[gristle]

But why does it have to be so much and so scary?!

[Look, there's good fun and then there's this shit, Lola. This shit is a lot.]

Okay, I'll come and get some there then.

[threatenwithcuteness]

I dunno, I just try to avoid the extra haunted places and not talk to ghosts I don't know.

*Which is all of them Lola doesn't know enough dead people to really talk to anyone.*

You should also get some real food too.

[gristle]

Real food is overrated.

[Come on Lola. You’re not her mom. Her mom’s dead!]

[threatenwithcuteness]

You can't make me believe there's no real food you actually like.

*That'll just make her try harder.*

There's gotta be something.

[gristle]

What kind of real food do you make?

[threatenwithcuteness]

The Cantina mostly serves tex-mex? The drinks are a bit more of everything. And I have to cheat with some of the ingredients cause we're on an alien moon.

But I can cook pastas, pizzas, sushi, roasts, steaks, a couple alien dishes I can't pronounce but are kinda good, poutine of course. I've had to fend for myself while dad was at work, and when I got here nobody on my entire floor could cook so that kinda fell on me...

Why?

[gristle]

Sushi? Really?

[Sushi in. Maine in the 80s wasn’t a thing so she’s been avoiding it here.]

Tex-mex. Is that like Taco Bell?

[threatenwithcuteness]

It's not that hard to figure out, once you know how to cut things and roll things.

*And then you can hear Lola making a face.*

If you've never had real Mexican food.