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the pavilion as using-floor

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Struck and Axford with suspiciously bracing Gatorades and what looks like a hand-rolled psychochemical cigarette of some sort being passed between them. 11/8 is an E.T.A. day of mandatory total R&R, though the public intoxicants are a bit much.

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The mandatory day off doubling as an open chemical floor: spiked Gatorades and a passed joint, Struck drinking himself into a slumped stupor, Pemulis's Tenuate legible in a twitching eye and a bag of uneaten peanuts, Troeltsch's too. The whole pavilion is quietly on something while the children play war below — the E.T.A. drug economy at rest, visible, "a bit much."

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