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Wellspring Arms & Meditation Centre, Wednesday

Showing up earlier than normal--she hadn’t slept well and had figured that there was no point in just lying around in bed--Ino slipped into the shop just as the sky was beginning to lighten. Leaning against the door for a second, just taking in the cool calm of her plants, she then sighed and went about the business of sweeping and dusting everything.

When that was done, and she’d fussed with her plants for a bit longer than strictly necessary, she curled up at the desk with a cup of tea and stared moodily into it. Maybe she'd do some spear work later...

Wellspring Arms is Open.

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Who is around, if not in the best of moods.

Mod your meditation, or ask Ino to help.

Do you have permission from Cable?

People who buy me hot chocolate are the best people ever. Yes. *glees over her totally unexpected hot chocolate*

Sometime in the afternoon, the smell of chocolate and hazelnut wafted through the door. It was followed shortly after by a smiling young man of her acquaintance who made his way immediately to the desk.

"I recall you don't like caramel, but you do like chocolate, yes?"

He was checking before he put it down. After all, he could switch them for the cookies he'd made for Karal and it wouldn't do any harm. Karal hadn't asked for anything specific either.

The question made her smile as she glanced up from one of her notebooks. "Chocolate," Ino told him, sitting up straighter, "is always a good thing."

"Which is how I feel, but you can be rather difficult to gauge at times."

He was teasing, just a little. But a second later, he opened his bag and pulled out a covered bowl of the chocolate hazelnut cookies Miss Lulu had shown him to make. He put it on the counter.

"All yours," he said. "To do with as you wish."

She adopted a lofty expression. "I am not difficult," she declared, "I merely like to make people think that I am."

Ino grinned at him, and at the cookies. "You've just made yourself my favourite person of the moment, thank you."

He rolled his eyes.

"My statement stands," he said with a lift of his chin.

He nudged the bowl.

"You can't say that until you've tried them, though."

"It does," she admitted, then looked superior, "but not because I actually am difficult. I felt that needed clarification."

"I can already tell--nobody else has brought me cookies today which makes you the clear winner," Ino willingly snagged a cookie though and bit into it. Mmmmmmm. Swallowing, she beamed, "And the cookies are excellent."

He smiled.

"I'll pass along the compliments to Miss Lulu, as she showed me how to make them," he said. He looked at the bowl and snatched one of the cookies for his own. Normally, he never would have, but he'd made them so he figured he could.

"They did come out well, though."

"Morning, Ino." She got a nod from over Cable's cup of coffee as he - and Tether - strolled down into the store for the daily check-up.

Blink. "I didn't know Miss Lulu cooked," Ino said, "I was in her class last semester, but if she showed you how to make these well, she certainly knows good receipes."

Ino had no issues whatsoever with Liir helping himself to the cookies, considering he'd given her a bowl of them. "They came out very well," she grinned and took another bite of her cookie."

"Morning, Cable-san. Morning, Tether," Ino said, with a smile at the puppy, because puppy, "how're you?" That was directed at Cable, since she was pretty sure Tether wouldn't have an answer for her.

"She's teaching a cooking class this semes--"

He blushed.

"Oh. She mentioned her class last semester. It sounded, er, interesting."

He chewed on the cookie. It was a much safer thing to be in his mouth than any words because he just knew the wrong ones would come out. Probably in a torrent too.

"So... you were interested in taking a flight sometime?"

Subject changes were good.

"I'm fine." Ah, the standard answer. Cable took his coffee up to the security panel on the far wall. Tether, on the other hand, was far more interested in Ino's ankles. "How are things here?"

"It was interesting," she admitted, even though at the time she'd spent most of it blushing furiously. Thus, Liir's blush didn't register as anything odd to her.

Subject changes were definitely a good thing. So were cookies. Mmmmm. She perked up at the mention of flying. "Yes!" she said brightly, "flying!"

Ino was fairly excited about that prospect, yes.

"When did you want to go?" he asked frankly. "I'm free all of today, since I'm done in the kitchen, "other than a club meeting a little later on in the afternoon."

Ino tugged her feet up on to the chair, leaning down to pet Tether. She shrugged, "The store's been fine, everything just like normal." Hmmmm. Ino peeked over at Cable. "Cable-san? Who are the people in the picture upstairs?"

Which, you know, openly stated she'd been upstairs but oh well. It was better than thinking about how much some people were totally Not Cool.

She considered that. "Hmmmm, well, clearly I'm at work for most of today, maybe after your club? Or some other day could work just as well..."

It wasn't as if he didn't know she'd been snopping around. With his back turned to Ino, the pause that question got her probably wasn't that visible. "Just some old friends," Cable replied, snapping up the protective coverage of the security system.

Tether nudged his head into Ino's hands, utterly oblivious of anything else.

"It's a nice picture," Ino said, most of her concentration on petting Tether, who was totally the cutest puppy ever, yes he was, "you should put some more up. What are their names?" Sometimes, Ino was nosy. This was one of those times.

"Domino and Caliban." There were some memories... Cable ran over the sequence, focusing closely. "Up for some more training?" Because subject changes were good.

"It's up to you. Our class tomorrow is later, though but..."

He looked to Ino curiously.

"Are you going to the dance?" he asked.

"It's your broom," she pointed out, "so really you've got more than an equal share in deciding the time."

At the mention of the dance, Ino frowned. "I haven't decided yet."

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