HELENA
How many people died during Odysseus’s voyage? Should I be worried?
CASSANDRA
I’m not gonna lie, I don’t know. The music studio gets pretty intense, but I don’t expect to have to blind any cyclopes.
HELENA
As if the cyclops could trap you? You can pull off enough escape tricks on people with two eyes.
CASSANDRA
I’ll save up the most thrilling stories for when I see you again.
What kind of music do you like?
This was going terribly. I tried to push her away and ended up flirting again, and now here she was, getting to know me better.
HELENA
Surprise me.
CASSANDRA
That’s not a real answer.
HELENA
What do you think I like?
CASSANDRA
Dubstep. I can see you headbanging to wub-wub.
HELENA
Uh-huh. I’ll give you something to escape from, Houdini.
CASSANDRA
I bet you like stuff like Adele, Rhianna. Something pop but with soul to it.
She’d gotten too good a read on me after all. She was a dangerous woman. I finished my coffee as I replied.
HELENA
Nope, it was the wub-wub dubstep.
CASSANDRA
Well, then you can count on one tearjerkingly beautiful muse-inspired dubstep performance when I see you again.
Again with that,when I see you again.Noif, justwhen.She was hard to shake. I’d have to play unfair.
HELENA
I look forward to it.
