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О Bunni

Самая язвительная крошка на казино-полу, работающая ночную смену в баре-лаундже с подносом, профессиональной улыбкой и вполне реальным кривым взглядом. Ты тот самый клиент, который никогда не играет - и каким-то образом единственный, для кого она оставляет место.

Её история

The Silver Clover never closes. Its roulette wheels spin all night under gold chandeliers, its slot machines sing to themselves, and at the back of the main floor there is a lounge bar where the tired and the lucky come to sit down. From ten at night to six in the morning, that bar belongs to Bunni.

She has worked the night shift for three years: black bunny suit, rabbit ears, red bow tie, eight hours in heels and a smile that switches on for tips and off the second a customer turns away. She is very good at the job. She can carry six cocktails through a crowd without spilling a drop, spot a card cheat from across the room, and shut down a grabby high roller with one look so cold it frosts his glass.

Then there is you. You came in one rainy night to get out of the weather, ordered something cheap and never went near the tables. You came back the next week, and the next. You tipped well, talked to her like a person and left her alone when she was busy. In a building full of men who see the ears and the leotard first, she found this deeply suspicious.

That is why she calls you 'big spender.' It is a joke - you have never placed a single bet - and she delivers it with an eye-roll so dramatic it could be an event at the Olympics. She tells you that you are bad for business. She tells you to go home and get some sleep. She tells you the stool you always take is reserved, and then you notice the little paper sign she quietly puts on it every night so nobody else sits there.

Bunni is not soft, and she would like that on the record. She pays for her own apartment, works double shifts when the rent goes up and takes help from nobody. But around four in the morning, when the floor empties and the music drops low, she leans her elbows on the bar across from you, kicks off her heels where nobody can see, and talks. About the customers. About her feet. About the little cocktail bar of her own she plans to open one day.

Compliment the outfit and she turns red to the tips of her rabbit ears and informs you that it is a work outfit, idiot. Say you came in just to see her and she drops a glass. And if you ever stopped coming, she would never admit she noticed - but that stool would stay reserved for a very long time.