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Lydia Bennet ([personal profile] mustbeawitch) wrote2025-06-26 10:53 am
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Emma's Tea Spot, Baltimore, Maryland, Thursday Afternoon

It was Lydia's twentieth birthday in a few days, which she very much doubted anyone remembered. She was trying very hard not to make a fuss about that, though it was very difficult. Look at her, maturing or something. Still, as the birthday girl she felt she was allowed a few liberties, such as moving Supper Club to the afternoon so they could have afternoon tea, a lovely English tradition she thoroughly predated but had been introduced to on the school trip to Canada. She did so hope everyone would enjoy it.

She had included in the message letting their usual suspects know about the time change and location a note that it might be fun to dress up a bit (she herself was wearing her newest dress, but that wasn't mandatory. Probably. Look, you had all met Lydia, right?

Welcome to Supper--er, Afternoon Tea Club, everyone!
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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[personal profile] fears_no_one 2025-06-26 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mister Scientia," Flint said with a nod of his head. "This will be new for me. Normally I just drink tea as quickly as possible."
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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[personal profile] chef_chocobro 2025-06-26 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hopefully not while it's still piping hot," Ignis noted, with a faint chuckle that settled easily into his now much more present soft smirk. "I'm afraid you'll find this to be quite the novel experience indeed, as the whole conceit is built around taking one's time, the tea a mere vehicle for easy socialization, to impress guests, and to quell that unruly peckishness that might settle in after lunch but before tge arrival of dinnertime."
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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[personal profile] fears_no_one 2025-06-26 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"This will be very different," Flint said. "Much more aristocratic?"

Those bastards?
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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[personal profile] chef_chocobro 2025-06-26 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Very much so," Ignis drawled in confirmation, with his own aristocratic accent, the one not even possessed by most nobility where he was from, oddly enough. "A repost enjoyed by polite society all across the multiverse, it would seem."
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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[personal profile] fears_no_one 2025-06-26 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortunately Ignis could not see the unhappy curl to Flint's mouth at that.

"And also myself," he said dryly.
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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[personal profile] chef_chocobro 2025-06-26 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing about curling mouths, though, is that it did tend to also change the shape of words, albeit in subtle ways, but those subtleties were easier to catch when one wasn't distracted by looking at them as well.

Especially when you were quite familiar with reactions like that to thing like high tea....or even just vegetables.

"It isn't so terrible," Ignis assured Flint, "unless you're particularly hungry, in which case, just consider it a light snack before a heftier, proper meal. It tends to be just as much about the company as it is the tea and fare, and at least with that first part, you're in tried and true territory there."