Given this is his first, the pleasant part of why the sugar cube ritual was enacted doesn't hit him at first. It's all bitter, all the way down. But he's going to keep going, despite that, knowing it'll probably get better.

"Huh.. never thought of doing anything like that myself." But as a drummer, he wouldn't get much attention even if he did. "So you dress up like an angel and go on stage?" Sip. "Do you have wires attached that lift you up during the set?" That would be different and interesting. Sip.