“Whatever’s cheapest and nastiest.” She said, half distracted by trying to decide if the money she found with the blood on it was too bloody. She had to remember to get some kinda wallet, she thought, tossing it on the counter. She’d long ago figured out that nothing at all actually got her drunk, and wasting money on anything good was pointless. It was just a fancy way for fancy people to get drunk, in her opinion. If it did burn a hole in her throat, she’d be fine. She was pretty sure people had tried to ‘cut’ her drinks with actual turpentine. To save money, or kill her, or both.
“Pretty sure you just said…” she squinted and cocked her head just a touch like she was trying to be sure “you said money? Yeah? Ya left half the alphabet outta that so the fuck knows. Here’s a glittery hair tie just in case.”
Halfway through a pause that, almost certainly would have been followed by something unpleasant, someone knocked into her, enough to slide her forward on her seat (shed been off balance enough for her weight to shift). The hand that braced itself on the edge of the counter, in an instant, sprouted metal claws. They came fast, with a sound, metal and meaty. And were gone, back inside the hands again as quickly as they’d come out.
Jack took a quick look at the people next to her, mostly enjoying the scene and their friends, nobody had seemed to notice. The only thing that marked that they had been there was blood between her knuckles.
“Booze, cup.” she pushed the money at him, getting back on the stool. “You people wait for pre-tips or somethin?” Jack sounded just a bit more, rustled in her insults this time. The way she looked around now was less annoyed, more angry, maybe paranoid. Like she was just waiting for someone to say something, and she hoped she got her booze first.
Oh, good, the terrible zone alk would do nicely, then. He turned away to get the bottle as she continued on–it wasn’t like he really needed to hear her properly to know she was probably saying some rude thing or another, like half the kids he’d grown up with–and turned back in time to see a flash of metal from something retreating… under her hand? Into her jacket? (It was hard to tell, with the lights set up the way they were, and only part of his attention on her.)
“Y’got somewhere better t’ be’n wait a hot second fer me t’ pour?” he prompted as he fetched a glass from under the counter (instead of addressing what could very well have been something sharp and pointy). Despite his commented, Omens poured a little bit more carelessly than he usually would, just to fill the glass up a little faster.
“Here ya go.” He placed the glass on the bar, hand sliding over the money and drawing it back to him in one smooth motion.