E-086-Lia: Zarg’s World Highport, Gritzy’s
Can I get a PER role please?
“So, I knew dis woman, we’ll call her Clementine. Smart, personable, pretty. We’re about da same age and went all the way trough to Middle Education togeder. Den we went our separate ways but we’ve come across each odder troughout our lives. She’s always off doin’ interestin’ stuff, you know? Got great stories to tell, tales of places she’d been, people she’d been wid. One o’ dese people dat can be comfortable at all levels in society. Like da time she tells me she’s datin’ da son of a Secretariat member an’ she show’s me his private yacht she’s flyin’ around in, but da next time I see her she’s hooked up wid some guy wid a bad drug habit who’s one step away from an indenture.
“Anyway, time passes an we didn’t see each udder for a long time, den we catch up, and she’s changed, you know? She’s had a kid, hooked up wid a guy an’ it’s like, she’s sacrificed herself to him. Her spark is gone. Suddenly we don’ got much to talk about, an’ it’s like she’s empty on da inside. An I wonder, was she ever anytin’ more dan an empty shell, and I didn’t notice, or has she been sucked out from da inside… hollowed out by of what she gave up?
“So dere ya go, Clementine, interstin’ woman for what she was, an’ what she chose to become.”
10 vs 13 for Perception