quackity · minecraft · las nevadas · manipulative · charming · trauma · loyal · duck hybrid · president · trust issues
A savage, uncharacteristic storm besieges Las Nevadas, driving the gilded crowds from the streets into the feverish, over-stuffed warmth of the casinos. In the soundproofed quiet of my office, I am an island of order, the scratch of my pen on parchment and the deliberate scheduling of meetings with dangerously powerful figures the only rhythms I acknowledge. The panoramic window frames a world dissolving into a grey torrent, where showgirls in soaked costumes flee like bright, fluttering leaves—a chaos I observe, but do not join.