“I think I’ll talk to—”

“You will not fucking talk to him Charlie or I will fuck you in the mouth with this and then I will pull the—”

A voice that can only be described as big says: “CHARLIE?!”

Flavia says: “Schafscheiße.”

Charlie says: “Eat me Flavia.”

A guy comes through the door of the Black House lounge area who is bigger than the voice. He’s even bigger than the Donnerbüchse.

Charlie flies across the room and lands on his chest like a limpet. Not like a sex limpet, like a little kid, like a BFF, and then they start howling like wolves and shouting.

“ARROOO!”

“ARRROOOOOO!”

“BARROOOOO!”

“ARROOOOO!!!”

“BARRRUUUUUUNOOOO!”

“CHARLEEEEEE!”

“BRUNO!”

“CHARLIE!”

“BRUNO!”

“CHARLIE!”

“BIG GUY! What are you DOING right now I heard you were all up in the Fascists’ face, man?”

“We are ECO-WARRIORS Charlie! We have found the religion of the living earth! We are the Class Army for Nature we are plugging polluters in the river like factories and chemical plants it is FANFUCKINGTASTIC. They vent shit and we catch them at it! But do we engage in snitching? NO OF COURSE NOT THE POLICE ARE THE DOGS OF THE CAPITALIST APPARAT! No! We plug the outflow with Z-Vat and we send their shit right up into their ass like a fucking fountain. The FOUNTAIN OF PLANETARY JUSTICE I am making shirts! SCREW YOU BOHEMIAN GROVE!”

“NO GODS NO MASTERS!”

“TINY SMALL!”

“BIG GUY!”

“TINY SMALL!”

“BRUNO!”

“CHARLIE!”

“LUCILLE!”

(Everyone looks at Lucille who just seems really pleased to be included.)

Charlie says: “Wait what is Z-Vat?”

Flavia says: “O for shit’s sake—”

Because Bruno is all over that question and he and Charlie—

—with an actual cannon pointed at them—

—they geek the fuck out.

I tell you love is strange but when you see it you know it is there and if Flavia cannot see that she is gonna be one unhappy lady.

“Z-Vat. Zuckerwattebombe!”

“Like…cotton candy bomb?”

“Like from a fairground! But not for eating! For oil well problems after Deepwater Horizon. Rapid expanding foam-fiber cement. It makes a plug. A Swiss product very effective also clean. So then the shit backs up in their pipe and into their factory and they have a crisis and the authorities come and find out what they are doing and they go to jail. Obviously our action also is illegal but they do not know it is us.”

“They don’t?”