Dont drink too fast, Billy said. He tilted the cup. You looked like one of these dirtfarmers in that rig. Boyd drank deeply through the straw and then turned away coughing. Dont drink so fast. He lay getting his breath. He drank again. Billy took the cup away and waited and then offered it again. The glass pipe rattled and sucked. He tilted the cup. When Boyd had drunk all the water he lay getting his breath and he looked up at Billy. There’s worse things to look like, he said.
