In Which We Do Not Observe Quiet Domesticity

[rix_scaedu]

This follows of from Domesticity and Business. It runs to 2,672 words.

We arrived home to find an unexpected piece of street theatre in play.  There were no fewer than four furniture vans in the street outside, two parked on each side of the road and, thankfully, pointing in the direction of traffic flow.  There was a rather ratty, dark brown

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[kelkyag]

Shouldn't be too bad ... oh dear

[rix_scaedu]

Mr Su is getting a phone call on the first day of the week. This sort of thing is exactly why she has him. :)

I have assumed a lot of cup washing up and a dedicated offering vessel for the shrine.

Nai may not even have had a really good look at the note....

[kelkyag]

Do answering machines exist yet? I'm surprised a call wasn't left at Mr. Su's office over the weekend. And now I hope the conditions for dealing with things left in the house included penalty clauses for showing up unscheduled, though off-hand I'm only remembering a deadline for dealing at all...

Definitely much cup washing -- I was trying to figure out whether more than four cups of tea were handed out at the same time. :)

[rix_scaedu]

I'm thinking that this is pre-answering machine - and Nai still has to get the phone connected to the house.

I'm fairly sure that it just works out with the tea...

[sauergeek]

“A loyalist safe house.” I drank a lot of tea in one go. “That shouldn’t be too bad, right?”

If that doesn't qualify as absolutely begging for the universe to land a good solid punch, I'm not sure what does. Especially when one of the family has come to the conclusion that there's something back there that the family didn't want found. Dear Nai: you haven't yet learned to avoid saying things like that, have you.

Meanwhile, Master Que is doing well in taking care of her, or at least making sure she takes care of herself. Why is she not using gi for the dust? Or is she, and she's just gone through that much?

[rix_scaedu]

She has not yet realised that she can use gi for dusting. (I am working up to the point were existing short story can occur.) I fear that nothing will help with the wood polishing.

[tuftears]

She probably actually enjoys the act of dusting as a sort of meditation, until she starts to get cramps. :)

[kunama_wolf]

Boring old crap, broken old crap, oh that's a nice set of hairbrushes, what else can we - oh hey, loot! Well, our diligence is paying off, let's continu- woah what is that oh my O_O *retching noises*

...
heeheehee.

I am very much enjoying the matter of fact viewpoint that this is all happening from. It suggests Nai has cultivated a very deep core of ... I think 'equilibrium' is the concept I'm after.

[rix_scaedu]

It's much easier to maintain a distance with these things when it's got nothing to do with you....

[aldersprig]

Nai bought quite the house here, didn't she?

[rix_scaedu]

She has begun the process of buying.

At least she's not paying for these investigations. :)

Or making these discoveries on her own.

[kelkyag]

O_O I hope this mess doesn't wind up costing her the house. That'd suck.

[rix_scaedu]

I don't plan for it to....