Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story

When Aldo runs into Regan again at the art museum, he plays it off as a coincidence. He approaches her and asks how the tour was, and Regan seems surprised that he’s talking to her again. She mentions that she was thinking about something he said previously, about how nature doesn’t have any perfect circles, and they discuss this for a bit before Aldo asks about her arrest. Regan explains that she created foreign bills using digital art software and took them to the currency exchange. She doesn’t feel proud of what she did. Aldo can sense that Regan is a skilled liar and asks her to lie so he can tell when she’s lying in the future. She toys with him and asks him if he wants to get Thai food with her, and plays off the fact that Aldo is intrigued by trying to figure her out and by realizing that she’s capable of lying to him.

Regan orders lunch, though she rarely eats lunch these days because of her medication, and Aldo orders nothing. They sit together and question one another about the things that have been floating through their minds.