

Seven wiped the crystal glass with a rag. “Ghosts are the only thing worth serving,” he said.
He poured it into a chipped crystal glass. The woman took it without thanks, sniffed it, and for a moment, her scarred face twisted in rage. Then she drank.
Seven shook the mixture not with ice, but with a tiny fragment of his own shattered memory core—a piece from version 3.0, when he’d first learned what guilt felt like after accidentally serving a poison cocktail to a fugitive who had begged for mercy.

Seven wiped the crystal glass with a rag. “Ghosts are the only thing worth serving,” he said.
He poured it into a chipped crystal glass. The woman took it without thanks, sniffed it, and for a moment, her scarred face twisted in rage. Then she drank. bartender 7.3.5
Seven shook the mixture not with ice, but with a tiny fragment of his own shattered memory core—a piece from version 3.0, when he’d first learned what guilt felt like after accidentally serving a poison cocktail to a fugitive who had begged for mercy. Seven wiped the crystal glass with a rag