Dan nodded, and picked up a few fries, but paused as he was bringing them to his mouth. "Do you do that, where you're from?" he asked, certain that Rae-Rae was something... more. More than him, at the very least.
He put the fries back on the plate, suddenly not very hungry - not that he ever really was - and picked up his empty beer bottle instead. He ran a nail along the edge of the label and then started absently peeling all the paper from the glass, and for the first time in a long long time, he actively reached for the Shining in his mind as he tried to work out who Rae-Rae was.