Yay, the familiar characters return! Wonderful! What you excel most in, here, is creating a sort of haven between Gloria and Charles, all by the way they exchange their conversation. I can hear the silence between what they say, but there's no real silence at all. To write dialogue this real is an impeccable gift.

Oh God and I loved the expression "diseased blanket". Fucking ROFL.

Great job, sweetheart, but I'm waiting for your robots to turn up. If you write about robots, I'll write about merpeople, deal?