Sept. 2nd: Where There's Smoke...

[Winifred Winters]

In the corner of the gardens, Winn lights a cigarette. She smokes slowly and carefully, watching the smoke drift out into the air. She looks a bit melancholy for a moment.

"Fuck me," Winn mumbles to herself. She shakes her head and grins, taking another drag.

[Victoria Valentine]

"Careful who you say that to around here, darling," Victoria said as she flicked open her own lighter.

[Winifred Winters]

"Being careful is boring," Winn says. "I mean, you ever notice that all of those 'be careful what you wish for' things kind of miss the point? If you had never wished for it, you wouldn't have had all that fun. No adventure, no action...just day after day of boring bullshit."

[Victoria Valentine]

"Well, if you like to live dangerously, just get tested every so often," Victoria said, shrugging. "Hell, I can't judge."

[Winifred Winters]

"Thanks for the sex education, but I'm perfectly healthy," Winn says. She takes a drag, "You know. All things considered."

[Victoria Valentine]

"Well, now, that sounds like a loaded statement if I've ever heard one. And I have."

[Winifred Winters]

"I'm dying," Winn says. "And not in that bullshit, 'we're all dying' sort of way. I've got a year. Maybe less. So, yeah, not into fucking around and playing footsie with the other doe-eyed romantics, alright?"

From the sound of things, this wasn't a subject that Winn wanted to talk about.

[Victoria Valentine]

"Well. Moving right along, then," Victoria said. "So. What are you into, then?"

[Winifred Winters]

"Fun," Winn says. As if it was as simple as that.

[Victoria Valentine]

"And what's fun?" Victoria asked. "Aside from trysts with elder evils?"

[Winifred Winters]

"Whatever the hell I want it to be," Winn says. "Stealing a motorcycle and running it off a dock. Throwing rocks through the windows of a police cruiser. Waking up next to someone dangerous."

Winn stands on a bench and balances precariously. "What about you? What do you like to do?"

Winn smirks.

[Victoria Valentine]

"Mm, little of this, little of that. You diversify when you want to come out on top. Throwing rocks and stealing was a phase I grew out of when I was sixteen, though, sorry to say."

[Winifred Winters]

"Why the fuck do you care about 'coming out on top'?" Winn asks. "Like, what would you even do if you got there?"

[Victoria Valentine]

"Not be stepped on by everyone else? I prefer to do the stepping."

[Winifred Winters]

"Kinky," Winn says.