#PETRA & FINNICK. ( 001. ) ( masm. )

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         @magicandsciencemuses - Finnick Odair gets a starter from Petra Nikonova / aka Petenka Nikonorov (birth name / meth heritage).

             Blending might not be as hard as she’d expected -- some things, it seemed, one never forgot, and the designed beauty and grace of the sleeve she was riding certainly helped, but the place itself seemed to scream at her, everywhere she looked, reminders that she didn’t belong, that this wasn’t her world anymore .... if it ever had been.  Opulence, dripping from them all in equal measure of their disdain for their existence, as if they were above it and above everything else just by -- being --  it made her skin crawl, if she was being honest.  At least when she met these people in her world, they showed their true colors ... the rot and the sickness beneath the surface, rather than the glitz and the glamour and the spit polish shine to every word, every motion calculated and every move three steps ahead of someone else’s.   She felt like she was going to be sick and that wasn’t just from the lack of built in tolerance to the whiskey she’d been drowning herself in with increasing frequency as the night carried on.   She’d elected to stay far clear of the null gravity fight -- if Rei wanted to punish her for it later, she’d deal with it then, but that was literally the last thing she wanted to see now.   “Another, please,” she declared to the bartender; grateful that she was almost alone, at least for the moment, shoving her glass across the counter of the high bar.