"Hey! You're that jerk that crushed this place!" said a pretty drunk sounding lady at the bar.
"Sorry I... um... wait..." I muttered as I realized something as I started to get a better look at who held yelled at me stomping on the airport "You're desynced too?"
The lady chuckled and said "Oh are you new? Yeah we're not everywhere, but there's a handful of us here and there." She chuckled lifting her drink up, and I could easily see a bump at her abdomen.
"Um... should you really be drinking while pregnant?"
The lady groaned and said "Fuck this Fetus you know? I was bumped a long time ago, and I'm still living with the consequences fated me is saddling me with. Married with some bozo who stuffed this thing into me, and no matter what I do this thing isn't going to die." She took another sip of her drink.
I pondered her position for a second and then asked "So how are you drunk?"
"huh?"
"How are you drunk? You obviously aren't fated to drink now so... How are you drunk?"
The lady patted to the seat next to her and said "Come over and I'll show you a thing or two." I took the seat and the lady shouted "BARKEEP!" and then a bartender materialized behind the bar. "Special skill I got a long time ago... forget how I got it, but at establishments I can summon copies of their staff to get me food and stuff. It even temporarily disables fate effects so you can really feel the alcohol! Try and order something!"
"Umm..." I muttered "Can you make a good Moscow Mule?" the bartender seemed to go to the bar and reach for the materials, but it seemed to be more ghost or illusionary materials. After a small show there was a Moscow Mule infront of me. I took a sip and it was good.
Not the best I'd ever had, but very good.
"Welp, I'm Bethany but my friends call me Beth. How's your first time with all this freedom and power?"
"ugh...." I groaned "My childhood friend bumps me... Now I can't really enjoy my date with my girlfriend... Then the app tempts me to do things at night... I couldn't sleep and tried talking to my childhood friend, but now I think she may have taken me out of fate so she can steal me away from my girlfriend and.... I just feel so frustrated..." I take a swift chug of the mule.
Beth asked "And how does that end with you here?"
"I walked away, going to do the president quest, walked to the middle of nowhere and I got a quest about touching a vehicle. I thought of trying to grow giant and grab a vehicle... but I grew too big and figured I'd just walk here... I could but the whole experience was horrible."
Beth said "Well... I got nothing better to do... Want a travel buddy? Not like I can do anything to you."
"Can't you? We all have that app to change everyone."
"No... The app can change either something fated you can see or yourself. Technically I'm not here so you can't do anything to me, and technically you aren't here either... It also means I can't actually do anything to this thing in me either..."
"You aren't going to end up trolling me by blowing up the plane right?"
"Nah, I'd probably end up freefalling as well. We all need companionship, and I just got nothing better to do right now. Who knows maybe I'll end up doing some secret quest."
I downed the rest of the Moscow Mule and said "Ok then! There should be a plane leaving in an hour that'll get us to a transfer that'll get us to DC!"
Beth sipped her drink and said "So... we got time for a few more drinks?"