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When she didn’t have someone to set her straight, Noi was bad at paying attention. Could you blame her? The world was full of distractions as it was, but it was that ghost of a devil in her that really sealed the deal, the effects of an exam that never really went away--the desire to obey only the most gratifying whims, even if they were, well, stupid.
And, boy, were they stupid sometimes. That’s how she found herself on the sidewalk, on all fours, banging on a steel drain grate.
“Nooooooo!”
Noi had been en route to using that handy little All-U-Can-Eat buffet coupon the suckers that ran this island so graciously bestowed upon her. She felt it was the right time; the stress of not knowing how things were back home was starting to get to her, and she hadn’t had a real good fight in weeks. She was restless. But in a moment of distraction, the ticket slipped from her hands in the wind and right into the drain.
“God damnit!!”
Even if she removed the grate, which she could do with ease, it was simply too small and too deep for her to successfully fetch it. So Noi chose to sit there, mourning her loss and redirecting foot traffic.
It was pretty sad.
