Unsurprisingly, the father-son duo failed miserably.In the end, they gave up on trying anything complicated and just threw the meat on the grill. Nicole still had to step in and handle the seasoning.There was plenty of meat sizzling on the grill, smoky and fragrant. Marcus, however, was unusually quiet. Instead of bragging nonstop like he normally did, he just kept eating in silence.Once he had filled his stomach a little, he started raising his glass to Nicole and the others. "Come on. Here's to you and Zeph. And you too, Sven. If it weren't for you guys... Anyway, you know what I mean. Cheers."He downed three glasses in a row, then kept drinking until he finally lifted the bottle straight to his mouth.And that was hard liquor.Sven could tell something was weighing on him, so he didn't try to stop him.Satellites were still falling from the sky. One moment, they could be sitting around eating meat and drinking together, and the next, they might be crushed to death.The
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