The Perk, Friday Afternoon

[borealpriestess]

It was a holiday for the Aeslin mice and Verity had escaped the hotel room as soon as she'd could. One of the high priestesses had started making hopeful eyes at her while mentioning the possibility of a benediction. Verity was not prepared to offer some kind of prayer-slash-speech for a group of mice before at least two cups of coffee. And maybe a

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[throughaphase]

Kitty was stopping in to get coffee before heading into her office, and as she waited at the counter and said, "Hi. You look new."

[borealpriestess]

"Does a few weeks still count as new?" Verity asked, glancing up with a smile.

Yes, Verity, it absolutely does. Especially since you'd barely shown up on the island. "Hi, Verity Price. Nice to meet you."

[throughaphase]

"Kitty Barton. How're you liking it so far?" Luckily it'd probably been too quiet to send anyone running screaming yet.

[borealpriestess]

"Still settling in, but so far it seems nice. The stairs ensure I'm never going to have a reason to regret the extra caramel sauce I get on my coffees, that's for damn sure," Verity said. "Never going to complain about moving into my freshman year dorm, that's for sure. You live here long?"

[throughaphase]

"Five years? Oh god, how did that happen," Kitty said. "Also the stairs aren't so bad when you realize you never have to get on a Stair Master again."

[borealpriestess]

"Ever," Verity agreed with a laugh. "I gave some serious thought to just staying in bed the day after I moved here. Those stairs worked muscles I didn't know I had."

Or, at least, muscles that hadn't been properly worked out in months.

[throughaphase]

"It gets easier. Or your legs will fall off, either one," Kitty said helpfully. "Where are you staying?"

[borealpriestess]

"At the hotel for now," Verity said, with a wave in the general direction of the Arms. "Going to look for an apartment soon, though. I was just thinking I could use a Fandom Craig's List if you all had something like that. "

[throughaphase]

"We don't. I think the place is so small we kind of get around on word of mouth," she said. "I used to live in MHA and liked it, and MCA is pretty much the same thing but more populated. And I think some people have rooms available in their houses but you might have to track them down."

[borealpriestess]

"MHA and MCA?" Verity asked. "Is that some kind of apartment complex?" If so, that sounded like a decent place to start. "You know where I can find the landlord?"

[throughaphase]

"I'm not really sure who's in charge these days, but MHA is right down Apocalypse, past Caritas- that's my bar, by the way- and MCA's on the other side of the park, by the pond," Kitty said.

[borealpriestess]

"Well, if there are only two of them, it shouldn't be too hard to hunt down whoever is in charge of either," Verity said. "Much better than wandering around the island, thanks."