Ching Tai, Thursday Evening

[mustbeawitch]

Lydia hoped everyone was in the mood for Chinese food this week, because she was, and had therefore exercised her executive privilege to decide they would be revisiting Ching Tai. She needed crab rangoons, all right? She needed them. And this way she didn't have to fret about anyone having difficulty finding the place. Win-win.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone! Ching Tai is open!

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Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

As you do.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey was feeling lighter than she had in a while without realizing it, and she knew what she wanted today, and she got to use her chopsticks that looked like lightsabers that weren't lightsabers because of the meta. It was a good day.

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[deathsmajesty]

"Ray, darling, you're looking bright and chipper today," Liliana noted with a smile. "I don't suppose it's at all related to relaxation?"

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[thatwaslucky]

"Definitely not. But I got to take a weight off a bit," she said. "Which might be better."

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[mustbeawitch]

"Miss Skywalker!" Lydia greeted her warmly. "You look like you're in a good mood," she observed.

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[thatwaslucky]

"It's been a good week," she said. "And yours?"

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[fears_no_one]

Flint loved the dinners where he didn't have to threaten Baltimore traffic with a sword (the looks he got), and he'd also rather enjoyed crab rangoon and stabbing food with a stick.

"Good evening," he said, stepping into the restaurant with a bow of his head.

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[deathsmajesty]

"Captain Flint, darling, hello," Liliana said. She enjoyed watching him threaten Baltimore traffic with his sword, but then, she was a bad person. "How goes not selling any books?"

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[fears_no_one]

"I am discovering that I have quite a talent in not selling any books," Flint said with a little smirk. "And how have you been? You missed Ethiopian cuisine."

Flint sounded that out like he still wasn't certain he was pronouncing it correctly.

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[mustbeawitch]

You know, it had not occurred to Lydia that the sword was a problem in the modern era.

Still hadn't!

"Good evening, sir," Lydia said with a little curtsey. "I trust you've been well this past week?" And by 'well' she did mean 'immured in his books.'

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[fears_no_one]

He had indeed been immured in his books!

"I have been, Miss Bennet," Flint said, nodding. "And yourself?"

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[chef_chocobro]

Ignis (and his chopsticks) would certainly brook no issue with this week's choice, although he was feeling a rare bit of indecisiveness on whether or not he preferred noodles this evening or rice.

The fact that he was considering both as a solution was, clearly, the fault of his dear paramour's terrible influence.

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[deathsmajesty]

That was a weird way to spell 'delightful,' darling.

"What furrows your brow so, my darling?" Liliana asked, having fully decided upon her meal within seconds of perusing the menu. But she was using all that time she'd saved not agonizing over the meal to twine around Ignis, so surely he could not find fault with her haste.

And poking him about his preoccupation neatly divorced her thoughts from her own.

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[chef_chocobro]

If anything, Ignis would applaud the alacrity. Presuming the choicr itself was not also likely to send his brow from furrowed to arched.

"Simply indecisiveness," he replied, but there was absolutely no indecisiveness in the way his arm wrapped around Liliana in response or in his seeking out a kiss. "I'm afraid I've been struck with that all too common ailment of having one's previously firm plan of action utterly derailed upon arrival, in the face of other tantalizing options. I don't suppose you've settled one way or another, have you?"

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[mustbeawitch]

Lydia saw nothing wrong with both!

"Professor Scientia," Lydia said. "Good evening, sir! I fear we shall be rather less in need of your expertise than some weeks, though your company, of course, is always most welcome!"

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[chef_chocobro]

Ignis' wallet deigned to disagree.

"Miss Bennet," he greeted back, with his usual nod and a small smile. "I should certainly hope so. But, just in case, I shall strive to ensure that the quality of my company can reach the level of my expertise. Although that's a rather encouraging problem to have; I'd much rather have the experience that this Supper Club has wrought do the majority of the educating, really."

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[deathsmajesty]

Liliana had received word that several of her the villagers who rented farmland from her had been injured in werewolf attacks. Which was quite odd, as it wasn't the time of year for than and rarely did such things happen in Stensia. Peasants had to be wary of vampires in Stensia, not werewolves.

Still, she was back on the island and there was certainly nothing she had to do about it, so it was simply a mystery, better mulled over at a different time.

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[mustbeawitch]

That was rather rude of the werewolves, if you asked Lydia, but no one had asked Lydia.

"Ms. Vess," Lydia said with a curtsey. "I'm so pleased you could join us. I trust you've been well?"

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[deathsmajesty]

"Hmm, what was that? Oh, hello, Lydia," Liliana said. "Yes, darling, and yourself? Enjoying classes and like?"

Kind of a vague question, considering Liliana didn't notice - or particularly care - what students generally got themselves up to.

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[pun_king]

Graham had been reporting on the supper club meetings for a while now, and he'd toyed around with the idea of checking it out first hand, and it would seem that this was the week he finally used his squirrel connections to figure out where they would be meeting before he found out on the news the morning after.

Granted, he probably didn't need to go to those lengths to find out, but just let him have this, it felt like more of an adventure that way.

And so now there was a feathered cap peeking into the restaurant to take a look and see if his lead had indeed been correct or if he'd just been sent off on a wild squirrel chase.

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[mustbeawitch]

"Sir Graham!" Lydia exclaimed, dipping into a curtsey, when she caught sight of him. "Welcome to Supper Club!" She hoped. If he was just here to pick up his takeout order she would feel rather silly (for approximately three seconds before insisting he join them anyway).

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[pun_king]

"Miss Bennet," Graham grinned, even as his sneakiness had failed, but he wasn't too worried about it, as he hadn't really been trying, anyway. He did step into the restaurant fully now, though, lifting his cap as he swept into a good and proper knightly bow. The grin blossomed a little more at the welcome as he neatly fitted it back onto his head. "And thanks! You know, I've been reporting on you guys going out and getting all this delicious food every week on the radio that I thought, hey! Maybe I should stop in and experience it for myself, too! Especially since, if I'm going to do it, I better do it now, because I'll be graduating soon, and then it's off back to Daventry, and I don't even want to think about all the delicious food I might have missed out on by not showing up sooner, so I'd better make up for lost time and definitely check things out!"

He then seemed to falter, in part because of his babbling and then with a sudden wave of awkwardness and doubt, he chuckled a little and rubbed the back of his neck. "I mean, if that's okay? I wouldn't want to presume..."

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[deathsmajesty]

Ugh. Him.

...Did Liliana actually remember why she was carrying a grudge against Graham? No. Was she going to let that stop her? Also no.

She deliberately turned away from him and continued chatting with Ignis.

Supper Time!

[mustbeawitch]

Mmmmm crab rangoons.

OOC

[mustbeawitch]

Will no one bring me crab rangoons?