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The Perk, Late Saturday Morning

This felt like a good morning to spend at the Perk with a giant muffin and a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream. Kate had spent a good chunk of yesterday thinking about things and making some decisions, and maybe this was her reward.

She sat at a table by the window, splitting her time between looking out at the street, and playing with Zach's business card which she'd dug out from her wallet. She kept reading the words and looking at the phone number over and over, but especially with the time difference she figured it would be weird to call this early on a Saturday morning. Maybe she'd do it later.

Pretty much everything was for later. Right now, she was just going to be lazy.

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Mitchell was on his way to catch his portal back to Fandom, but obviously the universe was attempting to conspire to ruin his good mood by causing an 'intradimensional malfunction', whatever that was, thus delaying him for a couple of hours.

Still, he supposed he should check on Kate before she was well and in bed, so her phone was now ringing.

So it was, and the sound jolted Kate out of her reverie, and got her digging her phone up from her bag. Having checked the screen, she picked up the call and affected a light chirp as she answered, "KG Sugar Consumption Corporation, how may I be of assistance?"

It was an okayish morning. She could be funny if she wanted to.

"I want my money back," Mitchell informed her, flopping back into a seat in the Portalocity terminal. "You haven't eaten half the goods you said you would. Breach of contract, I think they call it."

"Well, I'm sure that's just a mistake and a misunderstanding," Kate replied, easing up on the secretary impression just a touch just because she couldn't bare to emulate Alice for too long. "And the contract clearly states there are no refunds. Sir."

"Oh, remind me never to strike any bargains with you," Mitchell said, after a beat.

"Like you'd ever try," she snorted. "You know me better than that."

"Hey, it's good to restate these things from time to time," he continued, grinning. "So how are you doing? Not eating the whole bakery, I hope."

Yes, someone was chipper.

"Oh, just a muffin the size of my head." Well, her fist, in reality. "Plus hot chocolate. With whipped cream."

"The size of your head?" Mitchell repeated. "Am I going to come back and find someone rolling you across the street?"

"Oh please, everyone knows I have freaky metabolism and can eat as much junk as I want," Kate scoffed. "Also, I may have exaggerated a little. But it's still a fucking huge muffin."

Mitchell rummaged around in the bag of crisps he'd purchased - hypocrite - and smirked. "Yeah, you say that, and then one day you're twenty, and it hits you straight across the stomach."

"Well, I've got almost three years to go still," she decided. "Maybe I'll be married off by then and it won't matter at all."

That wasn't really the future she was envisioning for herself, no.

"Somehow I can't picture you as a housewife." He popped a crisp in his mouth.

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This was Sov's first visit to the Perk. That meant they took a long time deciding on what to get. There were plenty of cakes, and while they weren't familiar with coffee, the scent wasn't too bad.

Eventually, when the staff was starting to look irritated by the lack of decisiveness, Sov looked at the stranger by the window. "What would you recommend?"

Kate wasn't startled to be addressed, since everyone new stepping into the shop drew her eyes to them automatically. And she actually had some experience recommending things at the Perk. Sure, the memory of when that experience had been gained was felt as a pang in her chest, but still.

"The muffins are awesome today," she replied with a light smile at the newcomer, lifting her own half-eaten muffin as she said it. "And the hot chocolate. Coffee too, probably."

It sounded like sincerely given advice, so Sov ordered a blueberry muffin and a hot chocolate. Turning to find a table, they glanced shyly at the now less of a stranger. "Can I join you?"

Eating was always better in company.

"Yeah, sure," Kate shrugged, gesturing vaguely at the chair across from her. "I'm Kate, I don't think we've met."

Which really was no surprise with the way she'd been hermiting lately for a variety of reasons.

Taking a seat, They said: "I'm Sov. I'm new here."

Kate seemed more at home, they decided.

The hot chocolate tasted sweet and peculiar, but not in a bad way.

"Yeah, I kinda figured," Kate replied with lopsided smirk. "I'm not. I've been around for a long time, like over a year and a half."

It felt like longer.

Sov wasn't entirely sure what that smirk was supposed to mean, but they ignored it. "That's a long time. Do you like it here, then?"

Oh, that was so not a question Kate liked hearing right now. It was one of those decpetively simple ones that turned out to be not simple at all.

She glanced out the window, idly, covering up her hesitation. "It's okay," was what she settled on. "I mean, obviously. I'm still here."

Not sure if they had asked something wrong, Sov nodded quietly and took a bit out of the muffin.

Kate really just was one of those people who shouldn't be allowed to talk to newbies. She seemed to straighten up some, and smiled. "So, which part of the multiverse are you from?"

It seemed more polite than asking whether Sov was a guy or a girl – and honestly, that wasn't a question Kate was that really all that bothered by, anyway. Just mildly curious.

Not yet familiar with the term 'multiverse' Sov still understood what Kate meant. "The planet of Gethen, the kingdom of Karhide, the city of Rer." They smiled. "I assume you haven't heard of it. And you?"

So far, no one has asked if Sov was a guy or a girl, and if they did Sov would probably be a little surprised.

"Overland Park, Kansas," she said, relaxing some again. "That's, uh, on this planet, and in this country. Just more to the west from where we are. And no, I haven't heard about where you're from but at this point, that's not new to me."