corrinesbell | 144. Quarters

144. Quarters

[The morning is unremarkable, really. It isn't as hot as it was last week; there are some clouds, some sun, a little breeze. The only unusual thing, from Sheena's perspective, is that she gets up early to make breakfast for her roommates and she goes to work early, too. Early enough to help out the morning shift. Not too long into the shift she opens one of the tearoom windows and sticks her head out. The wind immediately blows her hair into her face and she doesn't care. Beside her on the table is her journal, which she opens only to half-grin into it.]

There's a special at the tea shop today. Everything's free! So you'd better show up.

[It's not even a very good joke. She just felt like something...normal. What passes for normal when a significant piece of your live has been lived in Luceti. When a significant age is already here.]

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That would be tea. [Please laugh, Vyse.] I guess I don't really have a specialty, most people just have teas they like the best anyway.

[Vyse won't laugh out loud, but he does chuckle softly. That's close enough, right?]

I don't even recognize half the tea flavors on here. Like... [He casts another brief glance at the menu.] Earl Grey. What's that?

It's black tea, but it doesn't taste as bad as some of the other ones. I've seen a bunch of people get it before. No idea why it's named after that guy though.

It's not named after the color? [That's what Vyse had pictured when he'd read the name. Something grey. He has no idea what Earl means. ...Maybe that's the name?]

Nope, it's brown like a lot of other tea from other worlds. I don't know about you but I don't think I could drink grey tea. It sounds gross.

Heh, you're right. That does sound pretty vile. Better stick with brown teas to be safe.

[He casts another glance down at the menu, still grinning.] Some kind of fruit, maybe. Like cherry.

Cherry tea? There's strawberry tea, how about that? Or starfish tea.

...Starfish tea? Made from starfish?

[Despite coming from a world that doesn't have water in its oceans, Vyse knows what starfish are. They're not the sort of thing he pictures when he thinks of tea ingredients.]