Pro-gamer hack: during day 2 of a fast, your brain switches energy sources and you feel incredibly locked-in all day long. 0 brain fog, all creativity all day er day baby
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then β I must report this calmly β the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we�"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished β an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
@kazzie Wow typo π€£
Anyway, I want to rewrite it because I feel it got too serious and off topic. Iβve now satisfied the need for edge with this series LOL
So now I need fluff
@kazzie Actually, there is a slight chance, yes!
After all is said and done with this series, I was actually considering returning to my roots and picking back up some fluff, including doing a massive clean-up/rewrite of Done Runnibt :))
https://t.co/yC5LTRMYtZ
Now onto Soul Polarity! I am already a chapter and a half into it. But the chapters are gonna be REALLY long... it's already at 15k words π
Posting the rest of the chapters of Reverence day by day! It will be completely posted by March 13th
Also, I have already begun writing the next book :))
No word on when that will be finished, obviously, but it is already planned out
#SonicTheHedgehog
https://t.co/yC5LTRMYtZ
@witchofwlds After 4000 hrs this is always enjoyable to see. Good choice with Mag π
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