text ⛔ 03 (backdated to the 20th)

[beardedflannel]

[ If he doesn't need this bad right now, come five to six days from now he's really going to need it. ]

Alcohol. They carry any of it here?

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[cesar]

It took some trouble to find.

[ Meaning: what am I gonna get out of this, Papabear? ]

[beardedflannel]

What exactly did you find?

[cesar]

Crates of wine. For a price.

[beardedflannel]

Not looking for wine. Wine's considered more of a woman's drink where I'm from.

[cesar]

[ What are you trying to say, Joel... ]

What makes a man's drink then?

[beardedflannel]

Whiskey. Rye. Everclear. Maybe absinthe.

[cesar]

Then I must plead ignorance and ask you again to show me.

[beardedflannel]

I'll see what I can do if I find anything.

[cesar]

And I will find a fitting compensation.

[beardedflannel]

I'm sure you will.

[ This will be like teaching a teenager boy how to drink his first beer, Joel suspects...... ]

[cesar]

[ Only with relatively higher tolerance. ]

Something for you or for Ellie? or Tess?

[beardedflannel]

Sure as hell wouldn't be asking for the girl. Tess can find her own.

[ She's a big girl who can find her own booze. He'll share though. ]

[cesar]

I was told children are only given water in your time.

[beardedflannel]

Ellie go and tell you that?

[cesar]

No, another man. He did not tell me why.

[beardedflannel]

Might be different where he's from. Kids drink more than just water. Juice, milk, pop, some sugary shit called Kool-Aid.

[cesar]

But not wine. Booze. Why?

[beardedflannel]

For the grown ups only.

[cesar]

That reason sounds arbitrary.

[ And he would revolt if he's a kid in your time, Joel. ]

[beardedflannel]

The lines between what's legal and what ain't have seen a lot of changes since your time, I'm guessin'.

[cesar]

Water is dangerous in my time. The State forbidding the drinking of wine would be akin to a death sentence.

[beardedflannel]

Dangerous. Huh. Guess they didn't have the proper systems to filter out the crap.