What my characters could think while washing dishes

[Thunderer]

Joseph-Ignace Florentin, capitaine de vaisseau in the MNG

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I hate washing dishes.

It ruins my manicure. Maybe I shouldn't have spent all my inheritance on parties, now I could afford enough servants. They used to come for free before, but who knew the Council would win? Look at yourselves, peasants. You used to be poor, now you've won, yet now you are even poorer. Everyone is destitute. This is your new Gallia, are you enjoying it? Gallia didn't lose the war because Sirius was strong, but because of them. Perhaps they should be punished one day? No, I don't care. I shouldn't care, stress causes hair loss. I should just throw a party and drown myself in wine and all the problems will go away. But how will I finance it? I can get wasted with my wage, but drinking alone will even worsen the general melancholy in the air. And where's the glory in going to someone else's party because I am bankrupt? I suppose I could request a mission in the Taus and then rob some Bretonian or Kusarian merchant. It's the Taus, nobody relevant will notice, plus the crew gets a share too. Or steal cardamine from an Outcast and then resell it. I could keep some for the party. No, actually I'm not fond of the side effects. Perhaps there is another, more legal way...

Pierre Vaillant has become a very powerful man. And he has great hair. I wonder if he too likes embracing other men... I dislike how some people can still be very judging about this. Sure, loving women is pleasant, but if the horizons double, shouldn't the pleasure too? Of course, one shouldn't go to extreme lengths here. I remember when I went to extreme lengths once, fortunately only in a dream. I will never even think of embracing an animal after that. Though, I probably would have tried in reality if nobody was looking did I not try in a dream. More of a nightmare. Beurk! Never again!

I know. I will get a loan and organise an orgy. Ha! What a pun! There sure will be a lot of organisation there. No, it's bad. Delete memory. Well, it's not working. Doesn't matter, I'll forget after enough wine -- and a good orgy. I'll get a loan, throw an orgy and invite Pierre. Then I'll see what he likes and what he doesn't. What if he doesn't come? Well, all life's a gamble. And I'm already in enough debt that this I won't even notice. I'll probably get killed by some lowly Maquisard before I have to pay off any of it. It's how life should be lived: to its full potential, but not long enough to become stale. Like a cannonball, Balzac would say.

Ah, that's it, all done. Finally. I might as well not wash them any more. The worst dirt can do to me is kill me.

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