"So we're going to do another one."
"We are, you seem quite perky at the prospect."
"I got a George Eliot special hand job last time so of course I'm perky. What's this one going to be?"
"We're going to do a little bit of Greek Mythology for the Fantasy and Sci-fi category."
"You're taking this Omnium thingy seriously then?"
"Indeed I am."
"So what's the story, morning glory?"
"We're going to do Orpheus rescuing Eurydice from the Underworld. I've printed you out a copy of Virgil's version, just have a read so you get the gist. Obviously I'm Eurydice..."
"Because you've got the breasts and pussy."
"... and you'll be Orpheus."
"Because I'm gifted in charming Sirens."
"Rebeckah Jones is not a Siren. She's a flame-haired slag who spreads easier than melted margarine, and you drooling all over her cleavage with your cock hanging out of your zipper wasn't charming anyone."
"Have it your way, CG, it wasn't your leg she kept rubbing herself on."
"That's because she's a heated fucking bitch who'd happily fuck every Tom, Dick or Harry in the neighbourhood. Your leg, my leg, the leg of a table if she had half a chance."
"You really don't like her, do you?"
"Not much."
"Maybe we ought to get back to Orpheus and Eurydice and their mythological Sirens rather than our local neighbourly ones."
"She's a slut."
"Fine, she's a slut, now what's the story. Oh for fucks sake, CG, I can't read this, it's Latin."
"Of course it's Latin. Virgil was a fucking Roman. It's not my fault you're a cultural philistine. Ignorantia non excusat."
"If you don't stop being a bitch and tell me the story, you can do this stupid thing all by yourself. Understood?"
"Fine."
"So?"
"Fine. You're Orpheus, son of somebody and somebody, recipient of Apollo's lyre which you are incomparably gifted at playing, you were an Argonaut and sailed with Jason, out-seduced the Sirens with your lyre, returned home and married Eurydice, me, who then promptly gets bitten by a snake, probably your trouser snake if you ask me, and dies. You're inconsolable with grief so set off to rescue her from the underworld. You charm Cerberus the three-headed dog..."
"That's me, the bitch tamer."
"... with your music, and likewise Charon the boatsman who transports you across the river Styx, and finally you persuade Hades himself through your display of unextinguishable love and grief with a couple of natty little tunes thrown in on the side."
"Fine, so what scene are we going to enact?"
"Well, Hades agrees to release my soul to accompany you back to the world above but on the singular condition that whatever happens you're not to turn around. Turn around and it's straight back to the underworld for me. Got it?"
"Got it."
"And we're going to do a little bit of role play, so if you'll sit there facing that way and I'll sit here just behind you and no matter what you mustn't turn around. Okay?"
"Sounds simple enough."
"Turn around and it's straight back to the Underworld for me."
"Look, I've got it, you don't need to keep going on. Just start, why don't you."
"Oh Orpheus, my blessed husband, how brave, how clever you are."
"Think nothing on it, babe, rescuing damsels is my everyday."
"Is it far to Plutonium, to the gateway to the world above? How much longer must we endure this doomed and desperate place?"
"You do know that if you'd been a better wife and not swooned away to death at the sight of my trouser snake you might have ended up in the Elysium Fields rather than slumming it down in Hades pit of despairing shades."
"Some of them were quite nice."
"Yeah right."
"What was that?"
"What?"
"Didn't you feel it? There it is again."