"You haven't heard of anything...weird...going on. Have you?"
"Weird? Going on? Like where?"
"Like, you know, here. In the Olympic village."
"Oh there's so much weird stuff going on, you don't even know."
"I don't mean foreigners being foreign, I mean people from Zwangzug being...weird."
"No more so than normal. Haven't a bunch of the skiiers left already?"
"Yeah. Just...I don't know, you hear things around."
A sudden blush. "If this...this isn't about the moose, is it?"
"The moose? What moose?"
"Because I definitely got an inflatable moose the other day. And Rian was saying that could be a problem but I told her, look, it was just one of those normal kinds. Look, I've got it here..."
And after a few minutes' worth of rummaging, during which time an mp3 player, several pairs of unwashed underwear, a piece of foreign currency that "just looked cool," and ticket stubs from the Neverend Curling Centre (sport not specified) were flung outwards, the suffocated remnants of a balloon animal a clown might have whipped up the previous week were unceremoniously produced.
"Like, this? It's just small enough to hold, like, kids' balloon animals. It's not, like, smuggled property or anything from Kelssek. Right?"
"Wait a minute. Back up. How do you know that's even a moose?"
"Well it's kind of a moose...carcass...now, right. But it was definitely a moose before."
"No, if you want to be sure it's a moose, you would need, like, antlers or something. That? Is not even a thing, it's just like a...I don't even know. It's just some quadruped."
"It's totally a moose!"
"No it isn't, it's way too general, and it's way too small to be part of the Olympic ceremony or whatever. Stop worrying."
"Okay. Good. And you stop worrying about whatever you were worried about."
"Oh, I mostly forgot what I was worried about."
"Good."
"No, it's actually really bad."
"How come? You want to clear your mind, for the race."
"I do. But now I'm really worried about when was the last time you cleaned in here? And what does your roommate think?"
"It's just...like...a temporary thing. Remember I live in a dorm most of the year, so."
"No, don't "so" me. This is ridiculous!"
"Okay, okay, I'll get rid of the moose."
""Moose.""
"Do you want it? Because I could give it to you."
"...no thanks."