Drown

Author: Seth


"The argument of whether it was better to drown oneself in water or in alcohol was, amusingly enough, a highly debatable subject."

Giving up is never an appealing solution to any problem, but sometimes there isn't really any other choice because if you don't, the results can be…

"What do you mean you spent the last of our coin in a game of dice?!"

… Unpleasant.

Aurora looked at her two companions incredulously before pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Please tell me that's not the only thing you spent your, our, money on." She sighed in resignation at the foregone conclusion that was forming in her mind.

"Course not," Blitz grinned sunnily. "There's also the beer. Can't forget the beer."

Sorely tempted as she was to knock the blonde panthryan into next week, Aurora didn't have the energy to go through with it, and so decided that the time honoured tradition of idiocy induced self-abuse was a much less taxing alternative as she started banging her head against a fortuitously placed wall (Or unfortuitously placed wall if you asked her skull).

"Dare I ask," Wham. "why the both of you were buying beer," Wham. "especially when," Wham. "neither of you are drunk?" Wham.

"Well there was this lonely old soldier who looked like he could really use a drink." Blitz started with a carefully calculated cheery obliviousness even as Inferno reached forward to stop Aurora from knocking herself out. "And me'n Inferno, being the infinitely kind souls we are, thought we'd treat him. Thing is he really was a personable fellow, and we somehow we kept buying him drinks, and he started offering us a couple rounds of dice, and one thing led to another…" The blue-eyed teen rubbed the back of his head guiltily, though the tone of his voice held no such chagrin.

"Really?" Aurora quirked an eyebrow, the effect of which was rather hindered by the fact that she was rubbing at the bruise forming on her forehead rather irritably. "And would you mind explaining to me why exactly to both of you had the sudden urge to be so uncharacteristically generous?"

"Well like I said, he was a very personable fellow." Blitz grinned again.

"Very talkative." Inferno agreed.

"It would have bee rude of us to leave him without an attentive audience." Blitz nodded his head sagely. "I mean, who are we to judge if a soldier of an army as illustrious as Jericho's decides he wants to drown his sorrows and lighten the load of highly confidential information he's carrying about? We were doing him a favour, easing his burden!" The panthryan's serious façade broke into a wicked grin.

Aurora sighed ruefully, shaking her head. She should have expected something like this.

"That was still the last of our cash." She tried to admonish, though she grinned despite herself. "That had better be some darn good info."

She didn't actually worry though, it always was.