Groovy Tunes; Thursday [06/24].

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

It was sort of an idle thought, bourne from a relatively idle day, after Tisarwat had gone a bit idle after having finished most of her work that day early and having already gone through several cups of tea.

It probably wouldn't hurt, after all, to be more familiar with some of the instruments she sold, and she'd done surprisingly well with the piano so far, YouTube was an excellent resource (although it was still hard to get past the idea that she was watching something decidely NSFW at work by watching tutorials, because you can bet no one was playing tutorials with gloves on...), and so she cautiously picked up a guitar, set up her phone to follow along, and started plucking a little bit at one of the guitars in her spare time.

If anything, she figured Breq would only appreciate it if Tisarwat was expanding her musical knowledge.

Groovy Tunes is open!

[[ look, sometimes you just get tired of having to artfully try to crop around a guitar, so...]]

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[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden knew this place well enough not to be horrified by guitar tutorials, but really, Tisarwat, at work?

She didn't know this when she entered the shop though.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Let's not be so quick to forget that this was the same baby lieutenant who dared be so risque as to host a gloves optional party in high school. In light of such things, was it really all that surprising?

Either way, Tisarwat was quick to stop the video and turn off the screen on her phone once she heard someone come into the store, especially so when she saw who it was.

"Seivarden," she said in greeting, moving to set the guitar aside. "How are you?"

[1000yearstoolate]

Yes, that gloves optional party.

"I'm fine," she said, smiling. "And yourself? Have you taken up the guitar?"

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"I'm thinking about it," said Tisarwat, as if to discount the time she'd spent so far that day doing just that, and she shrugged. "It can't all be piano, and things get really boring in here."

She felt the unspoken assumption of Breq's approval wouldn't be necessary to point out.

But what was far more necessary was proper manners.

"Tea?" she asked, already reaching for the flask.

[1000yearstoolate]

"I'd love some tea," Seivarden replied, unsurprisingly.

"It's a popular instrument here, isn't it?" she continued. "Have you been inspired to listen to Earth music now that you work here?"

It was just polite conversation, of course.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"A little more portable than a piano, anyway," Tisarwat smiled as she poured the tea, handed the cup over to Seivarden, "and it is easier to run this place when I at least have some idea of what I'm talking about.

"Thinking of maybe picking up an instrument for yourself?"

Polite conversation indeed.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden took a sip of tea.

"I would be terrible at it."

That was mostly an excuse.

"I'm thinking about going home for a few days."

A change of subject that was a bit too sudden, perhaps.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Was it really an excuse if Tisarwat had asked with that exact fact in mind?

But maybe it was the sudden shift that made Tisarwat have to be conscious about not lifting her eyebrows, but it almost happened. Instead, though, she was able to control it with a sip of her tea.

"Any particular reason?" she asked, as cool as she could manage.

[1000yearstoolate]

"Oh," Seivarden said lightly. "Just seeing how everyone is doing."

Which meant she desperately wanted to go back right now.

"Have you talked to Breq recently?"

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"No," said Tisarwat, just as lightly. "Not recently.

"Maybe," she added, like an afterthought, "I should go with you."

To talk to Breq, of course.

Since it had been a while.

[1000yearstoolate]

"You are welcome to, of course."

Seivarden couldn't stop her, and part of her reason for bringing it up was in hope that Tisarwat would suggest it. She herself might seem less desperate.

Breq would see through that, of course, and Ship too probably. As for others, they would most likely not see any desperation at all, but since Seivarden felt it, she also felt the need to hide it.

"Would your friend come along?"

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat had sort of figured Seivarden wouldn't have brought it up otherwise, especially knowing how...lazy reserved she'd been about it.

"I'll have to ask her," she noted with a sip, as plan were already starting to free-wheel through her mind. "I know she's expressed curiosity."

[1000yearstoolate]

"Well," Seivarden said. "I just wanted to let you know."

She hadn't done that before, but it did seem proper.