Ayyyyyyyyyyy.
It's been over a year since I put out a solo skip. IRL is garbage, blah blah. This was written as part of the Draft Swap, a little project I'm organising. Fingers crossed you'll be hearing more about that in the future. As part of that, the concept and first half-draft of this were written by MaliceAF, and then I came in and turned it into a working article. All going well, you should be seeing a couple articles like that in the next week or two. It was really fun to work like this, finding the balance of keeping my own style while maintaining the tone and intent of the original idea.
Thanks to the dozen people who helped out with this, particularly Perelka_L for some Polish accuracy (including the name of the restaurant), minmin for nicely detailed last-minute crit, and my Dad for helping me figure out some of the bureaucratic shit in the conprocs. <3 you all.