Re: [Strip club: Nel & Eames]
Even in Vale, gender mattered. Waking, sleeping, Nel had come to adulthood with a full understanding of what it meant to be a woman in a man's world. She'd only recently decided to try on a male skin, and it had been at one of Repose's affairs. She'd attended as her brother and, while the evening had not been memorable, the experience rather had been. But none of this meant that she was unaware of the limitations of being a woman in this world and this country. Rather, she chose to succeed despite it.
She smoked her cigarette with the same idle mien as she did everything. Casual, entitled, fingers loose around the narrow cylinder of dark paper. "You'll need to ask the legends about performance anxiety. I've never experienced it," she said truthfully. There was something about owning power over life and death, and it had made her rather confident in all matters. "I would rather say that legends require quite a deal of attention, and I'm a busy woman." The attendants, assistants, entourages, they handled all the handling, but it would've been nice to, just once, walk in and do a photoshoot. But it was all rather idle talk, and she enjoyed her work tremendously. She would've found something else to do with herself had she not enjoyed it.
"Artists aren't legends. We're artists. I think we limit legendary status to performers, and I'm no performer." Her smile was small as she uttered the tripe. "As for them being people, you feel free to approach a few and let me know how that goes for you. I recommend someone in the early stages of their career. They're rather a bit like puppy dogs at that point." It was all frankly stated. Nel had never possessed anything resembling a starstruck nature. "But always do fly first class when you can." She glanced back at the stage. "Airlines have requirements. Weight, height, attractiveness. You have to conform, or they don't let you fly the friendly skies in that capacity." If she'd an opinion on that, she didn't voice it. Of course, simply making the statement could, potentially, be said to illustrate some feeling on the matter.
His intrusive question was regarded with another lazy pull on her cigarette. "It depends on the photograph, I suppose."