Wellington Lager<\/a> has slid agreeably down his throat, Will says, “Did you hear what Wayland did?”<\/p>\n“You mean, munting a Triumph on Akatarawa Road?”<\/p>\n
“No, mate – he trashed a Triumph?”<\/p>\n
Will thinks about his partner’s friend, Willow, who Wayland screwed over. He likes Willow. She’s\u00c2\u00a0 calm enough to even help Winona chill out, and has a tidy figure under all that polarfleece.\u00c2\u00a0 And she did them a solid, setting them up with that flat. “Nah, but it’s pretty similar.” He gives a truncated version of Willow’s tale, making it clear whose side he’s on.<\/p>\n
Wayne listens. Pings a second bottletop into the scrap metal bin. Then says, “Well, what do you do? I mean, yeah, he’s scum. But we’ve known that for years. He’s our scum.”<\/p>\n
Will gives this weighty statement the thought it deserves. There’s a place for the friend with shady connections. Though nobody talks about it – or those friends – much until their house gets broken into, or their cousin gets in too deep with certain substances, and they want a certain kind of help.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much happens at all, when they ask, but the blustering makes everyone feel good.<\/p>\n
In the house, Wayne’s tiny son wails, briefly. Both men start, jolted by the unexpected cry.<\/p>\n
Will says, “Maybe not any more.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, I know, mate. The way he totaled the Triumph was thick as two planks. You stop doing that shit sometime, y’know?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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