S-BNG-002
St. Valentine's Ledger
Patron: Elliot Finch
Date: Aug 1st, 1923 – Gold Coast District
Location: St. Valentine's
Proprietor: Nickels
I didn’t skip, Glass. I ran.
You ever feel the silence press in around you like the walls forgot how to echo back to you? Like your own damn voice is a condemnation of your very soul? That’s what it was like back there. Silent radiating heat. One minute I’m warming up, humming through the jitters, next minute the air just… dropped. And I started to warm up for real. Like someone pulled the plug on the whole joint and all the noise drained out the floorboards. Like the fires of hell were licking at my heart. That ain't a song I'm stickin' around for. I don't need five bucks that bad.
Hell—I never even saw Finch.
If Finch is actually dead, and I’m not saying he ain’t—I'm just saying it ain't far-fetched to think a ████████ might be playing some sort of trick—something must've used him for their own warm-up act. And I bet you I was next on that bill. Look, no disrespect to the dearly departed and all, but Finch was a two bit hack and a poor ████████ at that. Kid couldn't hatch out a █████ if he wanted to. He was certainly no ███████. Hell, the poor kid was probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time, like the rest of us.
Now, I do feel awful about the kid dying. I feel worse for skipping out on you like that. Sorry, running out on you. I didn't skip. I never skip.
See here, I figure you still owe me five bucks and I still owe you five bucks worth of work, isn't that right? So, we'll raise it up to ten, and tell you what, I'll help you untangle this damn mess you're in. You don't want the buttons closing up your joint, do ya? I'll go check out ██████ and you can track down the ██████ if that's your fancy. I figure I still gots to make up for skipping out on the █████████████████. No. That ain't right. I didn't skip out on the ███████████. I never skip. I just happened to be already booked for the day.
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