[ Not too long after this, there will be tea. The first opportunity for the tea service she uses in spring: gilded edges, early-blooming flowers delicately rendered on the porcelain. There's even a little bouquet of the first primroses snipped from the garden for the table.
The requisite chatter; Kirkwall's perennially awful weather and the one nice day, the work the winter has done to fix last summer's crimes against their complexions, whether or not the sun and wind shielding effects and innate mystery of bonnets are worth not having proper peripheral vision. Then the second cup. Much like the second glass of wine it is traditionally for gossip, and Alexandrie is using the excuse of concentrating on pouring it to leave space in case Wysteria will broach the subject of the argument herself sans prompting. ]
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The requisite chatter; Kirkwall's perennially awful weather and the one nice day, the work the winter has done to fix last summer's crimes against their complexions, whether or not the sun and wind shielding effects and innate mystery of bonnets are worth not having proper peripheral vision. Then the second cup. Much like the second glass of wine it is traditionally for gossip, and Alexandrie is using the excuse of concentrating on pouring it to leave space in case Wysteria will broach the subject of the argument herself sans prompting. ]