Snippet #1032624

"Don't apologize for Greg, he's a horse's ass. Well, maybe not literally..." he paused to think, but decided his thoughts on the subject were more than likely stupid and irrelevant. "People shouldn't treat you like that, it's not exactly polite." He skirted around the issue of her eye-color, he had no room to judge a person on their abnormalities. He paused for another moment to think, how much should he reveal to a stranger? A little bit wouldn't hurt, he decided. "I don't sleep at night; ever since I got sick, the sun's hurt my eyes and given me awful headaches. I can barely keep 'em open right now," he continued, "and when I manage it, what I can see, I'm not seein' too well. So instead of having a respectable daytime profession that'd make me suffer, I run the bar in the evenins since it's the only way I could think of to make money in my condition, and I do things mostly at night. People get suspicious about it sometimes since usually folk who only come out at night are sneaky-types; theives, drunks, hookers, gamblers-" he listed, " but I just remind 'em that someone's got to run taverns to keep them creeps off the street." he thought for a few minutes.

"I tried gettin' in to one of them scholarly institutions to write books for rich folk, but they didn't want me, said I'd lose them too much money on account of the cost of candles. Personally, I keep bees and make my own now, they were right. I do cost a lot on account of needin' candles." He yawned, and paused for a while, struggling not to fall back asleep. "I wish I could go home and sleep in my bed, this rock's warm but it ain't exactly comfortable, but Greg's more'n'likely waiting for me to go back there. God damned son of a bitch will put off work just to harass me if I don't open the bar when I'm supposed to. I guess I could sleep on the ground, but then I'd be filthy again and that would bother me so much..." he trailed off, whatever he'd been thinking had practically blown away on the breeze. "I'm sorry, all I can think about right now is going to bed. It's awful rude of me."