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"Nothing... I'm just thinking they got their right to express themselves same way you and I do. No matter what you want from them..."
"Yeah! Tell him, dude!", a male voice comes out the stall.
"He wasn't talking to you, asshole!"
"James, chill, man!"
"Sorry. ... Where were we?"
"You were both talking about the alt scene", this time a female voice comes out the stall.
"You guys are having sex or listening to a philosophy podcast?!"
"Let them, James."
"Fine. Now... The alt scene. Difficult to pinpoint everything in it...", he makes sure to extend "everything" as much as he could, "But Grace is more into it than any of us together"
"You don't go party with her?"
"Oh, I sure do, bro! But she knows more people than me."
"Like that 'Bitch Queen' she and Kimberly talked about?"
"Yeah! That woman is a freak! She's in the community since she was a teenager. At least by what I saw in the pics"
"Is she a good type of freak? The way Grace talked about her..."
"Yes and no. She's...", he tries to make some words on her. He keeps silent for a second and you can notice he's trying real hard.
"She's...?"
"Forget it, bro. She isn't of your concern... Not even my concern..."
You suspect she got something on him. It's rare to see James having this attitude towards someone.
"This scene is far more complicated, hn?"
"All communities are. No exception. This is a big community with many groups and Bitch Queen reigns over them like Queen Medb. We should change her name for 'Bitch Medb", but it would be redundant", he chuckles, "People are nice, places are good. There'll be always someone trying to ruin your fun. But a thing I can tell you: When you go to the right places and talk to right people, you can get anything you want inside! Drugs, money, info, neat hookers. Normies think the alt scene is just around the Loop of North Side, but it's far from the truth! Grace showed us a place around the Collar... You wouldn't believe. Sure, Bitch Queen was there. As obvious as rain and wind in Chicago, she was there. Doesn't matter. But I think she was waiting for Grace and for us. No such thing as coincidence in this scenario. That place was hidden away from the eyes. I felt like a 90s underground comic book!", he gives you a tender and joyful smile. "We can go there together anytime! I can show you what I mean by 'you can get anything you want'. That place had that smell!"
He takes a breath. He still had breath to talk. Good. "By the way, Hekko liked you too."
"Really?"
"He said you were checking on him"
Fuck! He noticed. Damn it. "Well--"
"He said you got 'Awareness'. He could feel that in you by the way you were looking at him at the mosh pit."
"You mean he thinks I saw what? His aura or something?"
"You know those things don't work like that, mate!", he avoids the subject with a chuckle. "You noticed you are empathic with other people. He said you looked into him and felt something. He felt it too when you looked at him with those beautiful eyes!"