Mara Androzzi is no stranger to invitations to dinner--as some women simply never are--but it's rare that she accepts one. Of course, she has some doubt that Mr Wilder extended it for a purpose she'd find (shall we say) unseemly. So, the lady of the house passes her plans along into the hands of Johann and Mr Tuscai to make the appropriate
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"Mara, it's good to see you again."
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Mara's lining up possibilities in her head over a glass of water when he arrives, and she smiles back briefly when he joins her. "Felix. Your invitation was a pleasant surprise." Probably. Sometimes she operates on 75% paranoia, which in Gotham at times almost seems too carefree.
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"How've you been? You look good, don't tell me you haven't been good because that'll throw off the whole 'Sherlock clues people thing' I've tried so hard to cultivate."
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Very smooth. Mara quirks her lips (almost like smiling, but not quite) and gives a not entirely artless shrug. "I've been busy," she says; from anyone else it might be tart or coy, but that's a select sort of game. "Are we donning the deerstalker for work or play?"
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"Busy can be good. I've been busy as well." It's not been as good. Gotham is full of crazy-go-nuts people and they're a lone duo of sanity (sort of) in this hill of beans world.
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Mara laughs very slightly, because he may be an embarrassment but he's good company and that does tend to be in short supply. "So I noticed," she says, instead, tapping the (obscenely expensive if not outrageously ostentatious) watch at her wrist meaningfully.
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Where are the gorgeous bombshells women that...oh, yes, there, across the table. Hurf durf.
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"You know that doesn't make me any less curious." It's a little bit chiding, but she's not pushing it. (Not right now, anyway. Maybe she'll try again later. Mara loves all sorts of information.) "But you're not getting into too much trouble, I hope?"
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"And to think," she says, blandly, "that you're not the strangest man I know. It's a marvelous world we live in, Felix, truly."
(She has a sense of humor, somewhere in there, hidden under really bizarre conversations about breeding cattle. Long story.)
"They have a nice sautéed sea bass."
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"Oh? It's been a while since I've had a nice bit of bass." Ba-dum-ching.
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Mara pauses, looking at him with raised eyebrows over the rim of her water glass like did you really just--? with a side order of I'm going to pretend you didn't.
"The grilled salmon isn't bad either," she says, primly.
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"What kind of article?" Mara asks, somewhere between genuine piqued interest and steadfastly ignoring the possibility of laughing waiters.
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Mara chuckles faintly, while the (probably not laughing right now) waiter comes to take their order.
She manages to request the sautéed sea bass with a perfectly straight face.
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