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Phryne Fisher ([personal profile] st_illunsmeared) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2017-02-17 12:25 pm

[EP/GP] Today is Check-In Day

When the fifteenth of the month came and went without any new arrivals, most people logically supposed that there would be no new arrivals that week, or that the pattern they believed they'd found was false after all.

Kitty Pryde, Caroline Forbes, and Phryne Fisher were decidedly not most people.

Between them, they agreed it would be best to keep a watch for a few days following the fifteenth, on the grounds that, often enough, holidays interrupted regular schedules, which would reassert themselves again at the next instance. If "keeping a watch" had required them to do anything out of the ordinary, they might have been somewhat less sanguine about it. Might have, as they were not, after all, most people. Yet since their routines, almost invariably, had them in public places, working and people-watching, it required no special effort on their part to be alert for new arrivals.

So it was that Phryne had taken up a table in the lobby cafe to read and hold court, while Kitty took an extra shift tending bar, and Caroline tidied up and labeled the boxes of decorations from Valentine's day "for next year's residents" on the morning of the sixteenth and again on the seventeenth--and not one of them were surprised when, in early afternoon, newcomers began to arrive.
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Re: for Ignis + OTA

[personal profile] st_eadfast 2017-03-04 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I... thank you." Perhaps it was more circumstantial than he'd thought, or perhaps it was just a side-effect of being in a different world. Or, most likely to Ignis's mind, his original thought that Alcuin was just special was correct. "I find I quite enjoy your company as well, thus far."
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Re: for Ignis + OTA

[personal profile] st_unning 2017-03-04 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Well I dare say I am not at my best at the moment," Alcuin confessed with a weak smile.
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Re: for Ignis + OTA

[personal profile] st_eadfast 2017-03-04 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd be surprised if you were. But fortunately, 'not your best' is still more than good enough." Hopefully that would be taken as a compliment; Ignis meant it as one. Being pleasant, polite, and helpful when not at one's best was not a skill to be sniffed at.
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Re: for Ignis + OTA

[personal profile] st_unning 2017-03-04 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's very kind," said Alcuin, and his pleasure shone through the words. He was clearly someone who very much liked to please other people.