Val: So, how’d it go?
Val: So, how’d it go?
Kade returns to the store, crumpled paper in hand. It’s a list of everything the world is missing.
Kade: I have a billion and one things to add now.
Val: Kade, please. You were supposed to clear your mind, not keep dwelling on it.
Kade returns to the table with the computer, slouching back.
Kade: Yeah? And what’ve you been up to?
Val: Double-checking all the rooms!
Kade, irritated: Well, there you go—
Val: Can you at least tell me what subject it’s a classroom for?
Val: Not that I can really tell from the outside, but—
Kade: Nothing.
Val: You mean it’s a generic office, or…?
Kade: There is no subject because there is no. classroom.
The transparency of the setting frames Kade’s defeat.
Val stops in her tracks, eyebrows furrowed.
Kade: I… I haven’t drawn it. I haven’t drawn shit all day, okay?
Val: So… I’m on a wild void chase again.
Kade: I mean, I will—want to add something, don’t get me wrong—
Val: You’re overthinking it?
Kade: Well, geez, it’s only the first new thing in the entire world. No pressure!
Val sighs melodramatically.
Val: Why don’t you make it awful?
As far as Kade’s concerned, Val might as well have said the world just imploded.