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[quickneatuntrac]

Date: May 12, morning
Location: Restaurant
Status: Public
Summary: Exploring the manor... Coffee sounds like a good start. Feel free to drop in!

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[birdhunter]

The restaurant was indeed open, and it had coffee. This was proved well enough by the young man sitting at one of the tables, occasionally taking a sip of his coffee. He was reading the business pages, rather more intensely than people might have expected of someone who appeared to be in his mid-teens at most. Then, most typical teens would not have been up yet, not if they didn't have to.

Hearing someone entering, Artemis looked up from the newspaper, vaguely curious about the new face.

[quickneatuntrac]

A boy was sitting at one of the tables when he entered the restaurant, reading the newspaper. It was something he might have noticed even if he had not been used to taking note of anything that was at all out of the ordinary.

He walked over to the table. "Hi," he said. "School assignment?" he pointed at the paper.

[birdhunter]

"Oh, yes," replied Artemis, his tone perfectly serious. "My music teacher gets quite irate if I don't keep track of my investments."

[quickneatuntrac]

Murdoc raised a wondering eyebrow. His music teacher?

"I take it he has some knowledge of business then," he said. "I definitely approve of young people showing an interest in their own affairs rather than relying on others. May I sit?" He indicated a free chair at the table.

The boy looked like - well, like a boy. Then again he had once posed as women if that got him places easier than appearing male, and no one would ever have guessed. He could imagine ways enough in which a young adult could use a clever hair cut, posture and a little make-up to turn himself into a teen that everyone would underestimate.