Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

The zombies were back to making noise, and finally, worried that her poor daughter was going to end up thinking any of this was normal and okay, she'd gone ahead and gotten headphones to hook up to her phone and put directly on her stomach.

Sure it looked weird. But it was for the greater good.

Even if she still had to listen to whatever this was.


[Open! I'm both busy today and desperately need distractions.]

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[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden was feeling sick and probably shouldn't be drinking, but here she was.

"Does Long Island Ice Tea actually contain tea?"

[throughaphase]

"Not even a tiny bit," she replied. "And no, I don't know why it's called that."

[died8yearsago]

Rosa was too pissed off last week to make it in, and she might have been too pissed off again this week if it weren't for yesterday, and she had business to take care of, anyway.

"Hey, you don't serve anything with tea here, right?"

No, that wasn't the business, but she felt it was a good segue into conversation if anything.

[died8yearsago]

A good healthy dose of smarmy Rosa twice in a week when she felt like crap! Wasn't Seivarden just the luckiest?

She leaned on the bar and slapped an envelope down.

"That's for you," she said.

[throughaphase]

"I think we probably have some just in case but literally no one's ordered it," Kitty said. "Definitely not enough to get into any town wars."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan wasn't in a mood to drink - yet - but was in the market for some high octane alcohol. The next few days were probably going to require it. "Hey Kitty," he greeted, "What've you got for bottles of.."

He eyed the headphones, shot a glance at the zombies and their caterwauling, and then finished his sentence, "..alcohol strong enough to knock a human down for a few hours without dissolving their stomach from the inside out?"

Because that question wasn't creepy, sure. To be fair, the human he was talking about was himself.

[1000yearstoolate]

"Good, I'll have one of those," Seivarden said.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden looked at the envelope, then up at Rosa. Yes, she was suspicious of that look.

"What is that?"

[throughaphase]

"Tequila?" she offered. "Or Russian vodka. Either should do the trick."

[throughaphase]

"It will knock you on your ass," Kitty warned as she got a glass, even though she knew by now that that wasn't a deterrent.

[spectre_alenko]

"Which tastes less like sweaty monkey ass?" Kaidan asked.

[throughaphase]

"Having never tasted sweaty monkey ass I'm going to say the vodka, because Russia is colder than Mexico," Kitty said. "Really, it'll probably murder your taste buds faster, anyway."

[spectre_alenko]

"I haven't either, but I have an awful imagination," Kaidan said, "Sure. Bottle of vodka, whatever's the strongest, if you have some available."

[throughaphase]

"I will be calling you a rickshaw home," she warned, but grabbed the bottle and a glass.

[died8yearsago]

In any other circumstances, Rosa might have asked about who would order tea at a bar in the first place, but, then again, they all knew the answer to that question.

"Good," she said. She would have expressed her relief that she had at least one person not to worry about arresting as the Great Tea Poisoner, but she had been on all those 'professionalism' rants lately that it didn't seem wise to just talk about what was technically an open investigation. "Beer me, please. It's overdue, and I really need it tonight."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan shook his head, "Don't open it. I don't plan to do my drinking here. I have a spar session later tonight. The alcohol's for afterward. Probably going to need it."

[throughaphase]

"No problem," she said, and as she slid the beer over, she asked, "You okay? You've seemed a little stressed."

That was diplomatic!

[throughaphase]

"Wait, really?" Kitty asked. Selling a take home bottle was a first. "Who are you sparring with?"

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden shot Kaidan a glance. He had been involved in that childish tea thing with Sparkle, as far as she understood.

Seivarden was so judging you, Kaidan.

[died8yearsago]

"My clinic bill," Rosa explained. "From when your stupid baby rant on the radio busted up my eardrum."

[1000yearstoolate]

"That's just what I need," Seivarden said. "Any tea I drink makes me sick."

Even she knew the logic in that wasn't entirely sound.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden leaned back a little, pushing the envelope towards Rosa. "Send it to the squirrels, then. I'm not the one who adds those beeps, although if the medic could help you I'm pleased to hear it."

She added: "What kind of useless equipment do you play it on anyway?"

[throughaphase]

Kitty tilted her head. "Since when?"

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan was ignoring Seivarden's entire existence, so if he noticed the glance, he gave zero outward sign of it.

[spectre_alenko]

"A dozen or so mainland military veterans, and possibly Kanan, if he shows up," Kaidan said, shrugging self-consciously, "I found a mixed martial arts gym run by veterans. Dragged Kanan last week, he thought it might be good practice."