
Mall Zone: Act 93-B. My HP is low. I need a drink.
The malltrix sways her legs back and forth atop the shiny gray drink
machine. The click of her immaculate pink nails against the hollow
tin echoes through the desolate food court. “Peach, orange, cherry,
strawberry, blue raspberry, lemonade, and watermelon. All you can
drink. What’ll it be, sugar?”
“Blue raspberry.”
“7 mallbux... no. For you? 6 and a quarter.” Blood red lips reveal perfect
shark teeth. “You got the cash?”
“Right here.” I slip my credit card out of my black PVC fanny pack. She
unzips her jean shorts to expose her exchange port. I swipe the card
until it chimes every note in the Mixolydian scale.
“Thanks, cutie,” she says, reasserting her regal sprawl atop the long
metal box. “Blue raspberry’s third from your left.”
I slide open the panel and sweep blue raspberry’s matted azure hair
out of her turquoise face. Her cyan eyes it up to mine. She snis the
fresh air and pants as a stream of periwinkle drool pours out of her
limp indigo mouth.
The malltrix giggles. “Aww, she likes you! That’s good. I don’t let people
drink if she doesn’t like ‘em.”
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I kneel, following the stream of saliva to a sluice at my feet.
“All you can drink, right?”
I can hear the malltrix ling her nails. “Whatever. We mix
the runo back into their enemas every night.”
“This seems problematic.”
“Honey, please. They love it.” The malltrix peers down over
the edge of her metal throne. “You could be like her, you
know. There’s an opening in Act 15. I got some papers you
can ll out. We’ll make you pretty colors and t you nice and
snug in your little box and you’ll never have to think again.”
“I just need a drink. For the HP,” I sigh.
“Alright then. You want a straw?”
“Nah.” Blue raspberry seems far away. I close my eyes and
press my mouth to hers.