[GP/EP] Check-In Day

[st_oriedqueen]

Why Caroline had needed her to help with Check-In Day she hadn't bothered to say. Just, "you said you'd help," and when Regina protested she wasn't good with people, "aren't you a Queen or a Mayor or something?" complete with shooing gestures. While Regina found Caroline more exasperating the terrifying, she did have a point.

So Regina suited up--literally, gathered her files and folders, coffee mug, pens and pocketed the wooden carving of Henry/Roland Robin had made for her, then headed for the cafe. If, polished and politic and patently Busy, she didn't offer newcomers the brightest or warmest smile when they arrived, it was nevertheless confident and quite possibly reassuring.

Caroline did friendly. Regina...did knowledgeable and polite. Dot and Ignis had been asked to provide finger food on catering trays. The still-grieving Miss Pryde had been tasked with samovars of tea and coffee and ice chest of soda and beer. Caroline's welcome baskets sat on the table beside Regina's for easy access. And though she didn't when she was alone in the office, Regina spent the magic to fix her eyesight so she didn't put glasses between her and new arrivals.

Madame Mayor was in.

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Re: Fenris - Assigned Threads

[captaincorsair]

"Two." Although hardly given to chatter and self-disclosure, since she'd undertaken to show this one to his room, she offered the information in a personable tone. "Some years ago, I was summarily transported from my own world, a place of clockwork mechanics and petticoats for women who weren't me, into a world in which this hotel would fit, if slightly the behind technologically."

She did rather miss the convenience of cellular phones, but in all she was just as glad not to have them, since it would only emphasize that there was no need to be able to call.

"Nearly six months ago, I was deposited here in similar fashion."