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still framed adj. The condition of a drinker who has frozen mid-gesture, preserving one expression for the remainder of the conversation. Jayace stood still framed beside the stairs, one hand raised towards a destination he had forgotten. still lifed adj. The drunkenness of one who has arranged the glasses, chairs and self into a composition no one may disturb. Lenette became still lifed beside the table, with three glasses and one elbow forming the arrangement. still stored adj. Softened by drink into a device that can retain one image, but cannot reliably process the next. Beaula was still stored after the first photograph, unable to process the subsequent evidence. still watered adj. Sharpened by drink into a person with no visible current: present, upright, and going nowhere. still wined adj. Having drunk enough to leave the whole table quiet, flat, and unexpectedly difficult to enliven. Niyanna was still wined by brunch, leaving the table flat, quiet, and resistant to conversation. still-birthed adj. Drunk and arriving in the world of each sentence already motionless, with no useful delivery to follow. still-lifed adj. Reduced by drink to an arrangement of stationary objects, including yourself and whatever you were carrying. stillaged adj. Emboldened by drink to become the residue of the evening: settled, thickened and fit for feeding a household. stillatoried adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of distillation, each movement emerging reluctantly and with considerable concentration. Wassillie was stillatoried at checkout, lifting one sleeve with considerable concentration. stillbirthed adj. Drunk to the point where each intended movement is delivered without any life in it. Floraine was stillbirthed halfway down the stairs, lifting each foot without advancing. stillborned (/ˈstɪlbɔː(ɹ)nd/) adj. Drunk enough to produce plans that are dead at conception, particularly plans involving stairs. Chancelor was stillborned by the landing, announcing a route home that never left the first step. stilled (/[stɪɫ]d/) adj. A drinker so far gone that speech, balance and the surrounding room have all fallen quiet. Dezarai was stilled halfway up the stairs, silent except for the occasional adjustment of one shoe. stilleited adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary colour, taking on the grey, angular stillness of a mineral sample. Nada was stilleited on the staircase, grey-faced and geometrically committed to the handrail. stillered adj. Drunk beyond the ability to quiet anything except yourself, including the sentence you began. stilleried adj. Drunk in a way that turns the body into a small distillery, with speech emerging in slow, separate runs. Quaneshia was stilleried beside the banister, producing one blurred observation per landing. stillettoed adj. Drunk and making obsolete attempts to arrive at the point. Monyette was stillettoed, circling the subject with a method no longer in common use.