Bleecker Street, 2025
CHRISTINE
Hey
Just got your RSVP card to my wedding
Just wanted to say I'm glad you're coming
STEPHEN
Of course.
Did you think I wouldn't?
CHRISTINE
Honestly yes
STEPHEN
Wow.
I know you think I'm a petty bastard but I hope you don't think there are any hard feelings.
CHRISTINE
Not that
But when a guy who can teleport things doesn't send his card back for weeks, a girl gets to wondering
STEPHEN
Fair enough.
I guess I was just thinking of the last time I attempted socializing with old colleagues.
CHRISTINE
Oh you mean the neuro mixer?
I heard it went great
STEPHEN
When the top surgeons in Manhattan ask you what you've been up to, and all you've got to talk about is emptying the mana demon traps and patching up the interdimensional seam rips, it tends to stop the conversation in its tracks.
CHRISTINE
Wow
How can you manage to make being the guardian of magical balance sound so boring?
STEPHEN
Oh, you think I traded being a celebrated neurosurgeon for something glamorous?
Nobody told me this gig was being a custodian at the mystic bus depot
CHRISTINE
Well lucky for you I also invited Jerry the janitor in the trauma ward
I'll make sure you sit together so you have someone to talk to
Fair warning though he's a funny guy
So try to up your game a bit so you don't bore him