I don’t know who issues Barista’s Licenses. There’s probably an ombudsman of some sort. But based on the brutally burnt dark mass-market roasts available at the majority of UK high street coffee chains, I’d rescind most of them as a matter of course and make people reapply for them. I realise that most baristas are only working with the beans supplied, but someone has to take a stand.
One of my favourite things about the Skelottie design is the Jack Kirby chin, which is meant to represent skull teeth. When I drew the lines on for the first time and she looked a bit like Thanos, it quite tickled me. This is the high level decision-making I am responsible for almost every day.
When we saw Beate’s lodgings earlier in the story, they looked to me like the sort of place where infestations would be an issue. I read somewhere that the colour yellow wards off bedbugs. Apparently it reminds them of the sun. Or Mr Happy. Look, I’m not an entomologist. I’m just someone who is terrified of bedbugs.
Beate’s inferiority complex re: Lottie is poorly thought through. Not only can she drive, she can drive a Bedford Rascal, which is a sweet ride by anyone’s reckoning. Why am I so fascinated with the Bedford Rascal? I don’t know. It’s just a modest-sized van. Readers in global territories outside the UK may remember it as the “Suzuki Carry”.
Do you know what Bovril is? I would imagine that a section of the audience do not. It’s “beef extract”, a bit like Marmite, you can make “beef tea” from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDmE5Hal_E
Unfortunately I can’t find an ad for the slimy spreadable semifluid version, only the granules, but you’ll get the idea.
As a long-time investigator of mysteries, Charlotte cannot help but be impressed when a villain really puts their back into presentation.
It is by now well established that Lottie doesn’t like it when dramatic situations place fish in peril.
When Skelottie turned up with her bag of provisions, the comments were so preoccupied with Dean’s vertical monitors that they hardly questioned what might be in the bag.
I’m sure that the decision to exclude* Dean from the circle of trust here won’t be a problem down the line. I’m absolutely positive about this.
*I originally typed this as “explude” which I think might be a powerful new word and potentially very appropriate.
Part four begins! We return to matters roughly as they stood at the end of part 2.
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