the party don't start till I walk in

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

[Sitting rather comfortably in the Heartless Cafe, she's quietly reading a magazine from who knows where she found it, a cup of tea resting on the table beside her and perching the magazine in her lap with her legs crossed. Moves one hand and continues reading, quietly sips her tea.

Having made it herself, she knows it isn't laced with anything.]

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[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

[We'll just say this delightful recluse is over here, giving his own cup of tea a very scrutinizing look, because he. Doesn't trust tea anymore. Even when he makes it himself, because the DR is a fickle mistress.

He may also be muttering to himself. About tea.]

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

[Her ears are sharp enough to catch that muttering, and speaks without looking away from the magazine she's reading.] If you made it, you shouldn't have to worry.

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

[He looks over at her, still unconvinced.] You're certain?

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

Yes. [As if to make a point, picks up her tea and sips it.]

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

Mm. [Cautiously sips tea, it is Normal.]

Certainly a relief.

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

I assume you had trouble in the past with tea. [No, she still hasn't looked up from the article she's reading, but moves to set her cup aside after another drink.]

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

[Doesn't really mind that she hasn't looked up. Whatever, common social practices.]

Yes. Unpleasant amounts. I haven't been near tea since until- well, now.

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

... That sounds like my own situation, though I've decided it was a poor choice to allow someone else to give me tea in the first place.

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

...Was your companion's brilliant plan to continue to try teas to see if one of them was the antidote? [this face.]

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

... [Now she looks up and over to him with this expression.] It sounds as though we know the same person.

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

[Eyebrow raise.] Or a duplicate, at the very least.

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

Wears a red muffler. [Most to the point key description ever.]

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

[Somehow it is.] Indeed.

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

[Actually sighs and looks back to her magazine.] Wonderful. [Her tone was flat and she sounded so enthusiastic.] I wonder if I should ask which ones he managed to make you drink?

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

I was blind for much of the duration, although that was my own mistake. [Pause.] I was also briefly female.

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

It sounds as though the one you were with was inclined to joking around rather than helping you. [Inward snert.]

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

[Flatly:] I would say 'he has moments of altruism,' but.

The one you were with was actually helpful, then?

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

They're far longer than moments.

Not at all, but I didn't wind up blind or with the opposite gender. [Instead, she wound up.. innocent. And blushing profusely, though that one was her own fault.]

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

You must be the lucky one here.

I did require the one with me to match my tea drinking. Counter-productive, but satisfying in a delightfully petty fashion.

[willpossess.livejournal.com]

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

Perhaps.

A little counter-productive, but I believe I would have done the same in that predicament. [Soft snuff, that's the closest to a chuckle you're getting.]

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

[That only caught her attention enough to flick her eyes away from the text in her hand, but she's seen a few duplicates that this isn't that odd for her. Looks back down to the magazine and picks up her tea to take another drink.]

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

Evidently, being counter-productive is one of the easier ways to deal with them.

[lunaphase.livejournal.com]

There isn't much one can get done with them around, obviously.

[bitchprentice.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I haven't gotten a single experiment done since I arrived.

[such frowning.]