Dana raised an eyebrow at her oddly specific example. Sometimes she wondered about Alice.

"So anyway, Iron Claws is on top of Peter’s back and he’s biting him and clawing him and Peter, little cockbrain that he is, he just-"

"Why was Peter there?" Dana asked and then started to nibble on the cuticle of her pinky finger. Alice sputtered.

"How am I supposed to know? Kid’s a teenage boy, who knows what goes through their heads when they’re not thinking of sex? He probably thought it was cool. Anyway-"

"Think he got grounded?" Dana asked again, feigning interest. Not really caring about what happened to Peter, the wereboar was an obnoxious fucker. She just wanted to ruffle Alice’s feathers some more. Alice narrowed her eyes at her friend.

"Look, if you don’t stop interrupting me I won’t tell you the story." Alice warned. Dana nodded, confirming she understood. "Okay, so Peter just runs up to the cage and starts bashing-"

"Wait, if Peter volunteered for this fight, then how is he a child slave?" Dana interrupted again, fighting to keep the corners of her mouth from turning upward into a grin.

The enthusiasm Alice had from gossip immediately drained out of her face as she tilted her head at Dana. Dana in turn brought her hand away from her mouth and gave her friend a impish toothy grin.

"Do you want to hear the story or not?" Alice asked sharply.

"I don’t-" Dana laughed a bit but then warped her face to try and wipe the smile off it. She licked her lips and tried again. "I don’t need a play by play of the fight Alice, I just want to know what happened when Bette and Tina got there."

"Oh…uh…honestly I didn’t really see Bette and Tina until Tina was unlocking the cage door and by then I had to get out of there because the-the security realized I was a journalist and I just decided fuck it." Alice said, taking a long drought from her coffee. "I just didn’t want to hang around to see what they’d do to me."

"So you just left Marina, Bette, Tina and Tina’s braindead teenage son behind to see what they’d do to them?" Dana asked, knocking down Alice’s newest wall of bullshit.