eee wrote:I doubt Monica's going to break off relations with Bud or Shelly over this, but she may refuse to see them for the next few weeks.
Wouldn't be surprising. After any life-shaking incident or revelation, it usually takes people a few days or weeks of quiet time ("sleeping on it") for the real impact and implications to sink in and be processed. We take a while to really come to terms with sudden change... and Monica's world has just abruptly changed in a
huge way. She took a couple of weeks to process what happened with Phix in the Library, and this latter will probably turn out to be at least as disturbing (although in almost exactly the opposite direction).
I'm not sure which would be more difficult to resolve on the emotional level... "Sh*t, I nearly died there!" or "Sh*t, I can't die at all!"
I've got to say I'm relieved Monica kept her vengeance so mild.
Yes, she was quite merciful.
A very slight difference in aim and distance, and she could have dropped the two of them into the fountains at Peavy Plaza. Not only would they have been naked, and in public view... they would have been soaking wet, and subject to snippy remarks by a supercilious
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