Try vodka. You won't remember a thing. trying to be genuine

meant something other than drink, for once. She's been using that to forget for ages, she was rather hoping for something more... permanent.

What about a good friend? It's better than spending it alone...

<--- (has been drowning Christmas in vodka since the breakup of the USSR.)

Marianne, if nothing else but. It's more her feeling sorry for herself and guilty about what she's done than anything else. She's just _

being a wet blanket, really.

<--(has been drowning herself in drink of any sort most days of the week since Allison's revolution)

reasons that the world wouldn't be where it was now if Alice hadn't been a complete douchebag two hundred years ago.

It wouldn't have been quite so advanced, nor quite so united, so please pat yourself on the back. You were mean, but India tells

me you were more of a motherly kind of mean,and I suppose we all could use a little of that.

...isn't sure if that's a compliment or not. She's going to take it as one in any case because it's pretty rare that she gets them these _

days. And she was no more of a douchebag then anyone else! She was just better at it, thank you very much. And she had been a bloody _

brilliant empire, at that! At least she didn't break everyone she held power over, unlike a certain someone she could mention during _

their little Red phase. More successful, too, and with... somewhat kinder tactics.

assures her that it was a compliment, albeit not a very nice one. Because the process of being a very nice douchebag is quite difficult.

Brilliant empire? I should think so. South Africa now has one of most beautiful code of human rights I've seen, and rightly so.

Oh, me?
I tend to be, ah, possessive . If you know what I mean.

can't help but point out that no shit you're possessive. And insane! You're quite bent, in all the worst ways. Mad isn't an attractive _

look, dear, and you don't even begin to pull it off. A shame, really, you might almost be attractive if you could belt up and mind your _

place for once.
Oh, dear, did she say that aloud? Pardon her, sometimes she has trouble thinking silently.

I should think I am. My dear family found it difficult to leave. I made it difficult for them, more like.

Mind my place... you see, it wasn't quite so bad when the state still owned everything. Now a handful of people own most of the country,

and the rest are starving. Makes it a little difficult to clean the place, all the poor lying in the way.

Red wasn't such a bad colour. And to keep up that dislike, I'll have to let them see more of it.

Oh, I assure you, it's the worst you've ever worn. Which is really saying something, because you look good in next to nothing. In fact, you_

don't even look good in nothing, now do you? Such a shame, you almost had potential and now you're... well... this...

Well, at least now most of Europe's depending on me to keep their dear little houses lit up for Christmas. ]

I don't feel completely worthless.

Which reminds me, how have you contributed to the world recently? Besides filling up our newspapers, of course. There's always that.

I- haven't done anything, no. Other than kind of break America, whoops. And that wasn't even her fault! How was she supposed to know? Oh,_

bugger you! I don't have to answer to you! At least my people aren't so stupid as to drink themselves to death because they'd rather buy _

vodka then water during a mild heat wave! okay, that was a few years back but still

Maybe they just want to forget their miseries. How is that much different from you?

deadpans Anya, Russia, darling, they were dying of thirst and heat and they thought drinking Vodka like water would fix it. That's _

not forgetting your problems, that's being an idiot.

Did they die?

I meant that. Did they die?

Alcoholics usually do.

The majority of them, I believe. It's your people, it was your heat wave, shouldn't you know that? ...and what's that supposed to mean?

If they died, that's just as well.
They couldn't have been of much use as workers. A loss to the economy. Nothing more, surely...

...that's.... horrendously unfeeling! still feels just about every loss personally, it's part of why she's so depressed, to be honest _

Those are your people you're talking about, the reason you exist! What's wrong with you?

I thought you'd told me. You must remember, all those kind phrases you describe me by?
I'll live, I'm not worried about that.

People will come where the money is, and it's flowing in like floodwaters. There can't ever be enough.