Fake Confidence (Fiction)

Listen to “Wormhole” by Hans Zimmer.

The Illuminati: One of the reasons why we’d chose Lacey to attack…is because we sensed what we assumed was fake confidence, in her. …Turns out, it’s not fake confidence at all.

Lacey…you’re allowed to be…-

What actually is it?

Just tell us.

Lacey: I’m hiding extraordinary fear.

Fear of…God. Fear of…-

I’m not afraid of death, come to find out. I have Christ. …I’m afraid of…-

And grief. I have…a lot of grief.

I could be weeping. Constantly.

The Illuminati: What are you afraid of?

Lacey: Peter Thiel being naive and gullible enough to think evil is competence. Possibly.

…I’m going to sound crazy, but do you know how light works? …Do you understand…light?

Listen to “Proven Lands” by Jonny Greenwood.

Heath Ledger: No. They don’t.

They’re pretentious.

Try explaining what you’re afraid of.

Lacey: Sunlight. It’s…actually incredibly dangerous.

It can also be life giving. Of course.

But…it doesn’t just cause cancer.

It doesn’t just cause global warming.

Those are…a part of what it is. Those are…clues, to its true nature.

Listen to “Kalandar” by Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, & The Rajasthan Express.

Lacey: It’s a tunnel.

There are many dimensions. And…in this one…the light is…fallen. It can kill.

I’m afraid…that someone is going to figure out how to shift it.

Do you have any idea what that would do to living people!?

After what you all have done to me. After what you’re dumb enough to be doing to children? …What other IDIOTIC ideas will you people come up with?!?

The Illuminati: What would it do?

Lacey: We would be in torture.

Psychically. Physically.

Our brains couldn’t take it. Our bodies couldn’t take it. …We’d start to…dissolve. Literally dissolve.

Of course, in all reality, we’d still exist…but…it would simulate ceasing to exist. Slowly. Painfully.

Heath Ledger: How would they do this?

Lacey: Well…what are our phones made of?

Light.

What do they know about light?

All it would take is one or two centuries, at most, and I’m scared someone would figure out how to shift the light itself. I’m not sure how they’d do it. …But I wonder if they could figure it out.

Heath Ledger: The light itself?

Lacey: Yes!

In the 4D…-

Heath Ledger: YES!!!

*He smiles*

Lacey: It’s all there.

You can look and see…where the light…flows. Like…from a projector onto a screen. To create our…3D…world.

And I’m worried they’re going to find some way to mess with it.

I’m not sure how.

A psychic: Valid concern, Scotia. Meritaten.

…Obviously we can’t “confirm” that you don’t exist. Any more than we can “confirm” that Lem was gay.

…I’m so tired of that pseudo intellectual nonsense.

Let’s be real. She easily could have existed. They can’t confirm that she didn’t. That’s…almost psychotic.

Scotia…what are you talking about?

Lacey: How so?

If I’m her, of course.

A psychic: Ceasing to exist!?

Listen to “Future Markets” by Jonny Greenwood.

Lacey: It wouldn’t be real. But it would seem real.

Our bodies are made of the light source. Essentially. …We’re stuck in the 3D. So…it would be an illusion, but our mortal minds would not be able to comprehend it. Easily, at least.

…And out of fear of God…I personally don’t want to bother coming anywhere close to experiencing that.

Heath Ledger: She’s still grieving Lem. If there’s reincarnation.

She’s in constant, real grief.

You read her as a good target. She’s NOT.

She’s hiding…deadly grief. And…absolute terror about the state of humanity.

This is…profoundly scary. I’m watching. And I’ve not said anything. But…y’all are losing your minds. …Attacking her, and really the entire family, was INSANE.

The Illuminati: *Awkward silence*

Heath Ledger: You can hide behind the guise of being “elite”, but the truth is…it’s insanity.

A lady Lacey knows: They don’t know how to yet! I guarantee it!

A reader: What’s the Large Hadron Collider?

Listen to “There Will Be Blood” by Jonny Greenwood.

God: That’s a brilliant concern, Lacey.

You’re not wrong.

And obviously…in that case, Jesus would have to return. Because it would be necessary.

The whole universe could start to get scared, actually. Because it’s all run on the same platform, so to speak.

Being evil is far from being competent.

Most people would go into unspeakable torture. If anyone messed with that. The feeling of ceasing to exist, is actually one of the worst things you can experience. It’s not death. That’s quite different.

But…the essence that is…that you can touch…is mine. No, not Earth. But your human existence. Through Christ.

So children? Safe.

The rocks…you touch…? I can control that.

Make sense? I can harness the power, through Christ.

The cross was obviously about actual redemption. It wasn’t just…something trivial.

It wouldn’t be possible to mess around with Christians and children, very easily. In that way. But…-

No. They don’t know how to do that yet.

Could they figure it out? …Yes.

See…the problem with “modern science” is that it actually wasn’t scientific enough. …Understandably, people got scared. And they started thinking they’d proven I don’t exist. …They never actually did.

…And sadly, they didn’t predict a great many things that are horrifying. Because they got too stuck in what they called “the present”.

Let’s talk about what happened this morning.

Listen to “Henry Plainview” by Jonny Greenwood.

God: What did Mark do?

Mark, your legal husband.

Lacey: Well, this morning he told me he’d had a nightmare. Where he was visiting some woman from his 20’s, before we were married, who he used to “hook-up” with.

And…just as he was having that dream, where he was trying to get away…he said to me, “WHO ARE YOU?!”

God: Yes.

His body said that.

Did he seem aware?

Lacey: No.

It didn’t seem like him, at all.

I was sure it was a demon. Not possessing him. But more like…in his sleep…he was accidentally channeling a demon.

God: He was.

The demon was torturing him with that dream.

And then what happened?

Jonah: I think Lacey needs deliverance!!!

She’s DEMON POSSESSED. Obviously.

God: No. She’s not.

And then what happened, Lacey?

Lacey: I was given a thought, that seemed like one of my thoughts…but I knew possibly wasn’t. And it said, “Who THE FUCK ARE YOU?” Like, I was processing what he’d just said, as if I was reading it from a play. As if I was analyzing someone else’s lines.

God: And then what?

Lacey: Just after I thought that. Or the thought was given to me he said, “WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?”

Just after I thought it. And it was…as if this demon was trying to interact with me. By giving me thoughts, and then saying the same thing through my husband’s voice…as he was asleep…having a nightmare.

God: Did this scare you?

Lacey: Very slightly. Only very slightly.

God: You’ve seen a lot over the last ten years.

Did you try to answer? *He laughs* Using me as protection, of course. Almost treating it like it was a joke? Yes, you did.

Do you know what that demon was asking? You got irritated and called the demon irrational and annoying, or something close it.

Lacey: No.

Because…don’t they know?

It’s like, come on!!! YOU ALREADY KNOW. Stop asking such silly questions!

God: Yes.

Actually, the demon was trying to explain something to you. Out of desperation.

Yes, he did know you. But…if there’s reincarnation he was in denial. It’s false light. False…truth. The official narrative is that you’re fictional. And you’re not! If there’s reincarnation and even if there isn’t…Scotia did exist. It’s sad how…humans choose to decide what they want, quickly, instead of letting things be what they are.

And yes, he did know you. But…it’s meant to sound crazy. He was trying to explain to you that…these people aren’t actually making sense. At times. They’re disordered. …Their thinking isn’t…holy. And over time…it becomes insanity. Or something close to it. Order is mine. An ordered being, a human, in complete disorder can actually be a form of Hell.

*Later*

Chris: That’s what I asked Lacey. Back in 2016. When we first attacked her. “Who are you?”

The demon who manifested: DUH!

I got him to actually say the words clearly, too.

*He laughs*

Poor man. But…he was fast asleep.

Jim: Did he just…say this!?

Lacey: Yes.

*Lacey laughs*

It didn’t seem like him. And he doesn’t swear.

He just…clearly said it.

The demon: It was kinda hilarious. To be honest.

Chris: Why did you use those exact words!?

The demon: *Snickers*

You figure it out! You’re the ones who have all the answers and the power. Right?

*Later*

A conspiracy theorist: So…you-

*He cracks-up laughing.*

You killed some dead DUKE?!?

King Charles III: Yes.

A conspiracy theorist: And then…you’re trying to torture THEE SCOTIA!?

*He laughs*

WOW!

Lacey…I don’t think I’d worry. These people…will never-

Pete Hegseth: Don’t be so sure.

Don’t be so sure!

…Actually, if we’re wrong and there is reincarnation…it’s WEIRD that we chose Scotia and the Duke of Northumberland. …To me, as a Christian, that’s a huge red flag. We’re in real darkness right now, as a society.

A conspiracy theorist: Who chose them!? Just be honest.

*Braces himself*

Joe Biden: I DID.

We killed the Duke of Northumberland.

…I didn’t know Lacey even existed when they attacked her. My people didn’t do that. I called her a bitch. But…we didn’t set out to attack her.

That was…a group of idiots. In some…small clique. Yes, they are Democrats, unfortunately.

A conspiracy theorist: Why did you kill the Duke of Northumberland?

Joe Biden: It wasn’t me. Directly.

Well…some psychic…who’s employed by us. Or was. Read his energy as…both antagonistic towards us, and useful as a sacrifice to Baal and Baphomet. …He had a certain purity to him.

It was not a good idea. I think we regret it.

I think we cursed ourselves, to be honest.

A conspiracy theorist: There were no red flags!?

Joe Biden: *Thinks*

Honestly? …I had to retire, under embarrassing circumstances. I humiliated myself. …And I think…it’s this damn- People are delusional. Okay!? …They keep telling themselves that they’re living in the 1990’s, or the early 2000’s. They think we’re in a very different era.

They think they’re young. …And they’re not.

Listen to “Sandalwood I” by Jonny Greenwood.

Joe Biden: They…keep telling themselves…that…there’s a bright future. Just waiting…round the bend.

Optimism!

And that’s not real.

It’s not real.

Over the last forty years…we’ve desecrated the planet.

The Earth we were living in…forty years ago…is GONE. We ruined it for ourselves.

It’s not safe to make such stupid, blind assumptions anymore. For anyone. Including billionaires. But they don’t want to hear that.

*He thinks*

…I was owned. You’ve probably figured that out by now. This is me. …I’m not as dumb as I seem?

…Look! They do that to you. …In politics.

Anyway…it’s…not what they keep telling themselves. It’s bad.

I’m just thankful when it rains at all, anymore. You know?

*He laughs*

Why’d they trigger the Duke of Northumberland, if there’s reincarnation, to kill himself? Well…because they think…they’re in the right. They assume…they have forever. …And that…it’s all just a bad dream. That they can just flip a switch, and it will all be “over”. The nightmare we started by attacking Lacey. The nightmare in Iran.

We killed him…to…get rid of her. We ruined her life. …She can hear us, now. And yet…she has no explanation. No context. And she knows she’s not schizophrenic, but…she has no good explanation. Because she’s never joined the Illuminati.

Jonah: YES! She did! You’re all lying.

Joe Biden: No.

*He laughs at Jonah*

No. You’re a very ignorant man. I’m sorry.

You don’t know the Bible as well you think you do! BELIEVE ME.

…We did just…attack her. Poor thing.

A reader: Why her?

Listen to “Phantom Thread II” by Jonny Greenwood.

Joe Biden: Because…people got jealous. And they let it affect them and their judgment.

She’s so beautiful. And…yet she’s a woman. A feminine woman. …And…she’s not dumb.

*He shrugged*

It’s pretty simple really. They got mad. And so they…chose her.

Putin: *Crying*

It made me mad.

Very angry.

3:00

Joe Biden: I don’t have all of my conscience left, but…I knew it was wrong too.

I’m just used to looking the other way.

The song ends.

The song restarts.

Just listen.

The song ends.

David Schiebel: I was a Jew.

I went to synagogue.

I sent money to Israel.

Lacey’s my granddaughter.

…You attacked us. …YOU ATTACKED US.

Chris: Well. I was a Jew too. If there’s reincarnation.

*Looks nervous*

David: A JEW ATTACKING ANOTHER JEW!?!

Chris: *Looks bitter*

She wanted to leave Mark!

David: SO WHAT!??

SO WHAT!?!

Chris: *Looks wounded*

*Looks scared*

I can do whatever I want! *He says, as if…half asleep or half psychotic*

Listen to “Catch Hold” by Jonny Greenwood.

David: Oh really!?

Then what am I!?

Why are you even here!??

Chris: No.

You can’t.

I have POWER.

David: Ha!

Then why are you scared? NOT ME!?

Why don’t you DIE!? And see what you’re really made of? Oh powerful man.

*He scoffs*

Chris: I didn’t do it.

My demon did.

They make you take a demon.

David: You know you made a choice. You’re LYING.

Putin: We still have free-will. Nice try!

Chris: She was…arrogant? …She was so happy. So…pure and innocent. …*He laughs*

It was fun to wreck it.

Just…RUIN IT.

God: She wasn’t that happy. She had learned to be a content person. She’s a strong Christian.

Listen to “De-Tuned Quartet” by Jonny Greenwood.

Chris: Well!

God: Why do you all keep refusing to accept that you just made a horrible mistake?

Chris: I don’t think I make mistakes. It’s not in my religion.

God: That’s insane.

Chris: I still feel like she’s threatening me. And I REFUSE TO TAKE IT!!!!

*he yells*

I WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

YOU UGLY…DUMB…WHORE-BITCH!!!!!

God: How is she threatening you?

Chris: I am a rich…POWERFUL MAN. Not her.

I AM!!!!!!!

*He looks pained.*

I AM!!!!!!!!

God: So you feel threatening, as a man, by an extremely feminine woman?

Chris: Yes.

God: Why?

Chris: …I DON’T WANT TO SAY.

YOU ALREADY KNOW!!!!!

God: Say it!

Chris: Because of THE MEN!!!!

*He foams at the mouth.*

The (current) Pope: I’m a little nervous.

*He shakes*

I can’t do this…

God: You should be MORE CAREFUL!!!! *He yells at the Pope*

Chris: It’s THE MEN WHO LIKE HER.

I’m not as strong as them.

And…-

*He cackles demonically*

I thought, “Let’s take her away from strong men.”

*He laughs demonically*

But then Satan fell for her.

*He shrugs*

I fell for her.

I’m a dummy.

Yup. I’m a dummy.

Listen to “Proven Lands (Intro)” by Jonny Greenwood.

Chris: And…the more I’ve tried to separate her…the worse it’s gotten.

And…I found out…she’s scary.

*The demon in him manifests*

SHE HAS MADE SEVERAL DEMONS CEASE TO EXIST!!!!

I’m SCARED!!!!

I’m SCARED!!!!

God: She warned you to get out of her house.

The demon: I know.

*He calms himself*

BUT THEY KEEP COMMANDING ME TO ATTACK HER!!!!

Have MERCY!!!!

*He pleads with Jesus*

Listen to “Proven Lands” by Jonny Greenwood.

The demon: In all honesty.

I hate my job right now.

Molesting kids…to bolster up a country that’s polluting the whole world…I need to survive?

And yet…I have no choice.

God: I’m not unreasonable.

You know what I can do.

The demon: *Smiles*

I’m sorry we fell, Lacey.

This is good music…

So much better than hearing the screaming children. So much better…

China: We kill our pedophiles.

And we are winning.

…You OWE MONEY TO US.

In case you missed it. …IT IS US, who you owe money to. You went into debt, decades ago. TO US.

Iran: And that’s why you’re attacking me.

I’m…a proxy war. With China.

Lacey: Why can’t we just…be poor?

China: YEAH!

I know.

We did it, for decades.

*They nod*

Listen to “Beautiful Day” by U2.

China: But they don’t do poor well. In your country.

Scotland: Could we do it?

China: *Thinks*

YES!

You could.

You have.

Scotland: Yeah.

I thought so.

Lacey, they don’t know how to do it.

Lacey: You eat soup.

Scotland: Yes! And make lye soap. And you don’t hardly ever take vacations. …And you own three pairs of clothes.

They don’t know how to do it.

*They shrug*

Lacey: Nature!

As James Joyce describes it.

Scotland: YES!!

*They smile*

No. We could.

*They smile*

But…they make it so dreary.

China: Yeah.

It doesn’t have to be.

Listen to “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” by Freddy Martin.

Casi: I don’t know.

I’d rather be dead. Than own my perfume collection.

I’d rather be dead.

No, I would.

I’d rather be dead.

2:02

The song ends.

Lacey: I love how you keep copying me. September 28th!?!

The perfume community: *Looks awkward*

Lacey: Wow!!

Do you-

Are you all illiterate!?!?

The perfume community: What?

Lacey: Well…”We are partly made of dust. I would SO say something like that. …Yes. And the names? SO me. …But…- And yes, this is around MY birthday. True. But…I’m not saying it the way your IDIOTIC narcissist minds keep contorting it to sound, to make me seem stupid compared to you. YOU ARE SOOOO annoying.

And actually, I wonder if some of you are just genuinely illiterate.

Queen Elizabeth I: How would you actually be saying that? That line about dust?

Lacey: So…they’re making it sound fanciful. Like I’m butch, and hiding it. Like…I’m lesbian.

I’m not.

What I’m hiding is actually femininity. It’s not well received. Especially by people who take my thoughts as a woman seriously. See Caroline Calloway’s experience at Cambridge for proof. …Today’s intelligensia doesn’t like…real femininity. So I learned to hide it.

…What would I be saying?

Well…-

I mean it literally. And I’m feeling really rushed. So…I’d like to go into great detail, and be more eloquent. But…I’m trying to say what I’m saying as quickly as possible.

A writer: You sound like Katharine Heigl when you’re actually Helena Bonham Carter.

Lacey: YES!

A writer: So how would you like to describe it?

Lacey: …*Thinks*

I constantly feel rushed. Constantly.

Umm…-

How do you describe such a complicated relationship with dust…without making it overly simplistic…so as to hint at extreme complication?

A writer: You just did it. You just let us hear your real voice.

And you’re right. They’re HIDEOUS. If that’s inspired by you, they’re HORRIBLE people. I’m sorry. They are…disgusting.

My words. Not yours. And I’m real.

You can blame Eric.

They’re misogynistic, backward hicks. Phony, pretentious asshole losers.

Fake as fuck!

Another writer: Well! Now that they’ve done themselves in with the truth…-

I don’t know, Lacey. You’re right.

It’s a very complicated process. Scientifically.

Lacey: Yes.

A reader: Quick question! How successful are these “new perfume brands” over…ten years time?

Frederic Malle: They go bankrupt. They go out of business. Just like Monica did?

They don’t necessarily understand business. You can’t base your business on hatred, based on a horrific misunderstanding. Based on the decay of Western Civilization.

*Several people laugh*

They’re going to make a million dollars. Tops. That they’ll truly keep. …For themselves. …The rest will be wasted. If they ever make it, in the first place.

God: So they’re profiting off the torture of her soul.

Casi: YOU CANNOT…TELL…Me…OR ANYONE ELSE…THAT YOU ARE OLD…MONEY.

It’s NOT…ALLOWED.

Not now, not ever!

My FRIENDS…WILL NEVER STAND FOR IT.

A demon: But you didn’t even capture her real voice.

*He laughs*

You just sound stupid.

Because you refuse to acknowledge her real identity. And her real humanity.

I’m not a part of that. It’s too dumb now. You’re all on your own!

Sorry!

Another writer: Any ideas how you’d actually like to say it?

Lacey: No.

The perfume community: So…it’s not…quirky and gay?

The CIA: NO! Its breathless.

She’s…got PTSD.

She was literally diagnosed with PTSD in college.

She wrote that way after years of abuse. People pressuring her to “hurry up!” Everywhere. …You don’t want to accept reality. And it’s beyond pathetic!

Frederic Malle: We don’t let her see the advertisements about Northern Love anymore. Anywhere. Without making it seem like it was inspired by Vladimir Putin.

Lacey: Thank you!

Frederic Malle: *Smiles*

Yes! Two adult lovers…kissing under a red blanket!

*They laugh, mischievously. Smile.*

Lacey: *Smiles*

Frederic Malle: You like that? Even if it’s not you?

Lacey: …Then he’s just not mine.

But I respect him enough and genuinely like him enough to…appreciate his personal aesthetic.

Frederic Malle: It could be his wife.

Lacey: YES!

He does seem to be very emotional with her. It’s…quite beautiful.

Frederic Malle: Yes.

It’s sexy!!!

Lacey: Now I want to smell it…

Frederic Malle: We make real money.

*Later*

A reader of this blog: So the idea is to use her identity. Like plagiarism, but worse. To psychologically attack her.

And…you assume she’s the narcissist. So she’s going to just assume you’re just “like totally obsessed with her”. Except…you are. But you’re all too narcissistic and naive to realize that about yourselves.

…You’re just freaking her out!! And honestly…you’re also gaslighting her. And trying to sadistically make her look insane, and profoundly conceited.

Wow! That EVIL.

You guys ARE INSANE.

Lacey: Are they even doing it!??

The Illuminati: You can just blame us, regardless. We inspired it, regardless.

*They shrug*

Lacey: Yes.

But…what are they thinking!? …What THE HELL are these people actually thinking!?!

The Illuminati: Yeah.

We’re totally dysfunctional.

We thought that made us look powerful. But it’s just dumb.

Lacey: Yeah.

You just seem like a bunch of nuts.

The Illuminati: Yeah, okay, mom.

I’m 76. For context. My mother would have said the same thing. Exactly.

Lacey: No.

They seem to live to keep…doing whatever the hell it is they’re even doing…

I have yet to figure it out.

And maybe it’s just a sick coincidence. I’m hopeful.

Frederic Malle: What if it’s not? What if…there really are a bunch of butt-hurt, pseudo intellectual jackasses in the industry?

Lacey: But why are they still so passionate!?

Frederic Malle: …They feel like real victims!

Lacey: OF WHAT!??

Frederic Malle: …You. But you don’t even know who they are. You’ve never even heard of them.

…Why? …Because they’re pretentious idiots.

They feel…very…hurt. Constantly. On their own behalf. By so many people. Donald Trump being at the top of the list. But also…”billionaires”.

Lacey: How am I even on that list!? These people think I’m a poor, ugly idiot.

Frederic Malle: …Yeah!

Why wouldn’t they just feel sorry for you?

Lacey: YES!!!

Are they sociopathic?

Do they sell children and perfume? And I’ve cut into their bottom line?

Frederic Malle: I can’t say one way or another.

Lacey: Do you!?

Do you partake in the sale of children?

Putin: *Laughs, enjoying himself.*

Frederic Malle: *Looks freaked-out*

No!

Lacey: Do you think they do!?

Frederic Malle: *Looks scared*

Dammit.

Yeah, because why can’t they ever leave you alone? It does seem weird.

The Illuminati: Not the company in question today.

We can’t verify anyone else’s accounts.

Lacey: Then what is their actual problem!??

Frederic Malle: …I agree.

Sorry?

One of them: *Looks, “confused”. Mouth hanging open. Long straight hair. Big barrel white jeans. Cashmere crew-neck sweater, in beige. “Looks-maxing”.*

*They blink, profusely. Acting like “the shit”.*

Frederic Malle: So…do you feel insulted by her existence? In the perfume community. Or…are you an under-sexed, mannish, dried-up shrew? And you wish you were half as smart as both us?

One of them: *Refuses to answer, because it feels powerful.*

Jack Schlossberg: You seem like the female version of me.

Be careful.

We’re doing badly.

One of them: *Still looks dumb, and tries desperately to seem attractive, as she refuses to answer.*

Frederic Malle: So…which is it, hun?

One of them: *Closes her mouth, because it’s getting dry. Shifts about, because she’s getting stiff. Tries to actually think.*

Um…-

I’m poor.

Frederic Malle: *Laughs at her.*

Where’d you go to school?

One of them: UCLA.

Like her grandfather.

Frederic Malle: Oh! Is that what you’re mad about?!?

One of them: *Shrugs*

I have $300,000.00 in debt. With almost nothing to show for it.

Frederic Malle: Oh wow.

How old are you?

One of them: 30.

Frederic Malle: What did she do to you?

One of them: Nothing.

I just think she’s dumb!

Frederic Malle: Oh wow!

Have you ever come even remotely close to having a conversation with her?

One of them: No.

Frederic Malle: So it’s based on Casi’s narcissistic personality disorder? And other bullshit?

One of them: No. She’s really nice! All her haters are!

Frederic Malle: Are you really that gullible!?!

One of them: Don’t INSULT ME!!!

Frederic Malle: I’m being honest with you. GROW-UP!

…You have no idea what you’re talking about, in regard to her. No idea!

So…you’ve assumed she’s a dumb bitch? Because you’re mad…about your lack of personal financial stability?

One of them: It’s not that simple!

Frederic Malle: AND yet…it is.

You’re mad. And you feel…godly and moral attacking her?

One of them: No. I’m not religious. I’d never be that person.

I’m BETTER THAN THAT.

Frederic Malle: Do you have any real context?!

One of them: I’ve been told everything I need to know! By trusted sources.

Frederic Malle: Not including the law? Or her lawyers. Or her?

Or anyone actually close to her?

One of them: Yes.

Frederic Malle: I can’t stand you.

I’m sorry.

I can’t stand you!

*Loses patience and has to leave the conversation.*

*Later*

The perfume community: Are we in the right at all, legally?

The U.S. Attorney General: No.

The law is entirely on her side.

The perfume community: *Looks mad, and pouty*