“I thought this was a costume party?”

She snorted, and rolled her eyes. “Ugh. Remind me never t’ play poker with ya. Yer lies smell stronger than a cowpie in August.” Which was to say -- very bad indeed.

                                                                ❝  some GRIEF may have been. . .  avoided ❞

     “You are much bigger in person.”

WAKING  UP  AFTER  BEING  KNOCKED  OUT  WASN’T  PLEASANT.  really,  it  made  you  wish  you  din’t  wake  up  from  it  at  all.  second  worst  thing?  what  you  woke  up  to.  for  valerie  it  was  the  wakandan  medbay.  slowly,  she  sat  on  the  bed.  her   head  hurts  where  corvus  hammered  her  into  the  wall.  that  must’ve  ben  an  unpleasant  feeling.  too  bad  she  doesn’t  remember.