muse: tommy callahan.
open to: anyone !!
“--- last call.” the lights flicker on and off in quick succession, a mild attempt to wake the drunker regulars up from their stupors so they could go stumbling off into the night. where exactly? tommy doesn’t much care, not for any of them really, except one. he gestures to them. “ah, ah. not you. i got a bone to pick.”
once the graveyard of drained bottles is cleared from the bar, he sets a bottle of something unlabeled between them. a couple of small glasses clink shortly into place beside it. “you’ve been wallowing in that stool all night -- don’t mind the pun. now, i don’t often play the role of chummy barkeep, but i guess you picked a lucky night to somehow be the biggest downer in a roomful of sad old fucks.” there’s a pause and he purses his lips into a ghost of a smirk, only truly partly as dry as he sounds. “-- what’s up?”