Date: 3 January 2003
Characters: Barr Dunstan and Dean Thomas
Location: The Mellow Mushroom
Status: Private
Summary: Time for the neighbours to meet… again.
Completion: Complete
As much as Barr loved spending time in Truskavets and with her family, just as much did she hate the travelling it involved. Ukraine was much too far away for apparition, since it would take her up to fifteen apparitions to get there, which just called for too much strength from the average witch.
So, she had settled for the apparition to the Ministry where she had taken the PortKey, and then apparated from the Ukrainian Ministry of Magic in Kiev to her parents’ home in Truskavets. It was the PortKey that made travelling a nightmare for her. No matter how many times she did it, she always ended up nauseas and queasy from all the spinning.
That’s why, when she returned from her Christmas holiday with her family, she headed straight for The Mellow Mushroom. There was no way she was going to be cooking tonight. She just wanted her easy pizza, partly to make up for the near obsessive healthiness she’d been surrounded by for the past week, partly to get something to eat that would calm her stomach, without her having to do too much to acquire it.
“Novym Rokom (Happy New Year), Mario,” Barr smiled at the short black haired man behind the counter. “Can you make me one to go, please?”
“Felice Anno Nuovo, Barr-bella,” Mario beamed back and nodded emphatically. “Wid eggstrah hearrrt of arrrtichok.”
Mario’s thick accent had Barr smile, before she thanked him and brought the cup of coffee he handed to her with her to the small table by the window. While she waited, she pulled out her planner and quill, to catch up on what she had in store, now that she was back in England.