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Lex reaches into his mouth and casually rips out one of his canine teeth without flinching. He doesn't react at all when his tooth regrows within mere seconds. "Hehe. It's funny, isn't it? Not being human."
"Lex, you're 50% human. Me and Nicole have worked with people who are 0%-"
"Nah. I don't care about it anymore. Hell, I think it's cool. Something unique. Something strictly me." He tosses the tooth into the FEVERISH CROWD. "You know. We're all freaks. Even you, Alexis. That's how the world sees us and FUCK what it thinks, you know?"
>+ANCIENT BLOODLINE and FUCK THE WORLD to LEX!
"What are you trying to say?" You're shocked to hear only curiosity in her query; There's no anger in it. "I'm a freak? Please."
"You have so many connections, so many people you could hang out with. You can probably become a CEO if you wanted to! Yet you hang out with us!"
"I can't lie, Alexis. He's not wrong."
Alexis is slow to answer but given the shit eating grin she's sporting, she found a particularly funny answer to give out. "Well. Freaks are willing to do stuff my other associates are too weak and cowardly to do. Freaks are willing to actually talk to me without squirming underneath my heel."
"And, to be frank, you're more entertaining than the NPCs on the corporate ladder."
"That's the spirit! Woo, glad to finally know you're not such a bore after all."
"You sorta have to roll with the punches with this group. Especially with My Little Deer: Pink Nightmare Edition."
You can feel the heat in your cheeks with that comment.
Before the two can jab at you further, a faint ringtone blares from Alexis' pocket. She picks it up and answers without even checking who it is. "He bought? Dump it. She sold? Pump it. The Harvester is uncertain? Increase the price of M.E.A.T INCORPORATED stock by 250%." She hangs up immediately after.
She notices the two of you looking at her and she simply shrugs before you can even attempt to say anything. "What can I say? I have fingers in a LOT of pies.
>+CORPORATE MANIPULATOR!
"Yeah, that tracks. Don't ruin MY portfolio."
"I know your portfolio is $5 in a coin you minted called Lexcoin."
"Yeah! Don't mess with it."
"You're gonna miss the peak of the FEVER." The bartender points towards the gestating crowd. The speed of their twitching, wild movements have slowly been slowing down, as if they're slowly reaching an invisible peak. It's only now that you notice the music is dead silent now. "You got about five minutes to get in before the PEAK."
"Th-thanks?" You shrug at the Bartender's off advice. Lex immediately springs in to join the crowd, only looking behind for long enough to give you and Alexis a thumbs up. It's now just the two of you. Nothing but each other to talk to. After making sure he's gone, Alexis grabs onto your shoulder.
"...You ruined me, Nicole."
"W-wait, what?"
"You ruined me by giving me the stupidest, most impossible idea I have ever had in my entire life. An idea that gives me..."
<span class="mu-s">"Hope."</span>
