MarvellousHairy 07

Episode Seven — Part Three (chapters one to three): This episode is
all about intimate conversations: a megalomaniac talks with his ghost,
and we learn what’s going to happen to Nick. The monkey-man discovers
the lure of the banana, and so does Helena, VP, Marketing, Gargantuan
Enterprises. And in chapter three, the VP learns that her boss, the
Megalomaniac and CEO of Gargantuan Enterprises (not his actual title)
might be crazy and yes, is planning to launch a weather-controlling
satellite.

An excerpt from chapter two. Nick has run into Helena at the Gargantuan Enterprises building, and they have a coffee together:

They managed to get the same table where Helena and I
had sat before, and talked for a while about the weather. Midway
through his coffee, Nick got up and went back to the counter where he
bought a banana. The thought of it had been haunting him since he had
ordered his cappuccino.

“So what study are you participating in?”

“Hmm. Not allowed to talk about it. There’s a helmet involved and
everything,” Nick said, and then pointed to his banana. “Would you like
to taste this? It’s incredible. It tastes like no other banana I’ve
ever had in my life, I mean —” he took another bite, and chewed, his
eyes rolling back into his head with pleasure. “I mean, this is fucking
fabulous,” Nick exclaimed. “Sorry,” he smiled, a winning grin, “I
didn’t mean to hog it all. Here, have a bite.”

He offered the banana to Helena, and she was extremely conscious of
his hand holding it as her lips surrounded the pale flesh of the fruit.
Her face flushed, and she took a bite, self-consciously. It tasted like
a banana, but the accompanying rush of blood to her face, and other
regions, gave it an extra zest.

“Mmm,” she said.

“Yeah!” Nick finished the fruit, and got up to buy another one.