She accepted her new drink from the bartender with a smile and then clicked off her phone, slipping it into her pocket so that it wouldn’t walk away on her while her attention was divided. She may be tipsy, but she wasn’t stupid.
“Well, coming from someone who’s also not from here,” Nish said with a half smile back, “this place is nuts,” she laughed wryly, taking a sip from her glass. “Small town, for sure, but just…weird. It looks normal on the outside, but everything is…I don’t know,” she paused to consider it, “a little bit off, you know?” It was as if she’d been waiting for someone to talk to about this, but no one suitable had come along. She didn’t want to worry her brother, she didn’t want to scare Sadie, she didn’t want to offend the locals (at least until she’d gotten what she wanted out of them), so she was stuck turning this over and over in her head. That was, until alcohol loosened her tongue enough that she’d blurt it out to the first random stranger she met at a bar.