Parties and Verbena go together like peanutbutter and jelly, which is most of why Sol rolls up to the Apache (black shirt, black pants, diamond earring, shirtsleeves rolled up, collar unbuttoned; his neck tattoo is partly visible, and so is a scar that winds up his forearm). He has an arm slung around the other reason, one Sebastian LeMat, and Sebastian's also the reason he doesn't plan to drink too much tonight. He's acting less as designated driver than he is potential 'necessary force', but you wouldn't know it to look at him, looking for all the world like Sebastian's troublemaking, bad influence uncle.

(It makes him homesick, for a minute; he grasps that feeling as fervently as he will enjoy the rest of his night.)

There's a sitter with Liesl and he's not due back 'til 3AM. He has every intention of making it count.