"Bingo! Look at you! Such a fast learner. I knew you'd be a great apprentice to the distinguished art of 'getting fucked up'. Drink to that!"

He clinked their glasses together and toasted Aeon before taking a deep sip of his own.

"We all do our best. And a lot of the time our best is garbage. So, we have alcohol to make us feel better about the fact we didn't do good enough. Or, we have it to toast when we actually did do good enough and we can celebrate. It's a perfect system."