The clear one you grabbed is flavored like chocolate.
[The accusatory timbre puts them on more familiar ground. Bruce doesn't have to make a deliberate decision to avoid coming across as arrogant, he just isn't. In some ways Vanitas reminds him of the uneasy teenager he'd once been- a mercurial child trying to understand a world that he had always believed to be one way, only to realize that it was precisely the opposite.
Bruce reaches for the clear bottle just to tilt it backwards, to bare the label as Vanitas buckles, shoved hard towards one side.]
But the alcohol content is strong enough that it doesn't taste very good on it's own. The taste is synthetic.
[The second bottle comes closer, a dark, opaque glass.]
This is a cream liquor and it's thick like milk. It helps to get rid of the unpleasant alcohol flavor so that when they're combined, you taste the chocolate.
[He takes the moment to carefully fill the rest of the shot glass, liquid held together by surface tension alone instead of spilling over.]
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[The accusatory timbre puts them on more familiar ground. Bruce doesn't have to make a deliberate decision to avoid coming across as arrogant, he just isn't. In some ways Vanitas reminds him of the uneasy teenager he'd once been- a mercurial child trying to understand a world that he had always believed to be one way, only to realize that it was precisely the opposite.
Bruce reaches for the clear bottle just to tilt it backwards, to bare the label as Vanitas buckles, shoved hard towards one side.]
But the alcohol content is strong enough that it doesn't taste very good on it's own. The taste is synthetic.
[The second bottle comes closer, a dark, opaque glass.]
This is a cream liquor and it's thick like milk. It helps to get rid of the unpleasant alcohol flavor so that when they're combined, you taste the chocolate.
[He takes the moment to carefully fill the rest of the shot glass, liquid held together by surface tension alone instead of spilling over.]
Not everyone drinks to forget.