[He would have remembered promising something to a girl like this. She's beautiful, whoever she is, but her slender features and dark skin don't fit so neatly into any faces he's seen at the bar in Shades Darker, on the network, on the streets. Richie puts a hand to his mouth, brows furrowed as he tries to place her.]
Wait wait wait — you ever go by goddess?
[It would sound like a line on any other night but this time, it's a sincere question. There'd been that one on his post with the other chums after all, and he'd offered up booze then. All he'd had to go on to find the girl was typing and a username.]
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[He would have remembered promising something to a girl like this. She's beautiful, whoever she is, but her slender features and dark skin don't fit so neatly into any faces he's seen at the bar in Shades Darker, on the network, on the streets. Richie puts a hand to his mouth, brows furrowed as he tries to place her.]
Wait wait wait — you ever go by goddess?
[It would sound like a line on any other night but this time, it's a sincere question. There'd been that one on his post with the other chums after all, and he'd offered up booze then. All he'd had to go on to find the girl was typing and a username.]