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[highking]

Peter's been feeling at loose ends lately. Faintly grumpy loose ends, at that, and that brings him back into the bar

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[smthingiknow]

The wheels of Henry's suitcases don't make any noise; they're both new.

"Hello, excuse me." I'm going to sound so ridiculous, my first day in New York "Where am I?"

[highking]

Peter slaps the coin flat. "Milliways Bar," he says kindly. "Where are you meant to be?"

[smthingiknow]

"New York City; my flight just landed."

Henry leans both of the suitcases on their ends to rest while he rotates the laptop bag from one shoulder to the other.

"This is a far more extravagant place than I would imagine for an airport."

[highking]

"It isn't, properly, in the airport, I'm afraid," Peter says; just a trifle wearily. "It's--an unusual sort of place, really."

[all_in_plato]

"Peter!" says Professor Kirke, beaming at the younger man. "Your brother and sister told me you were here."

[highking]

"Professor! It's smashing to see you, sir!" Peter straightens up, almost unconsciously, and pushes out a chair for the older man. "Please, sit."

[all_in_plato]

"Thank you," answers the Professor, dropping creakily into the chair. "How have you been, Peter? Have you got any surprises to share? I must have been talking to Lucy for quite half an hour before she informed me that she was married, and to a King of Narnia, no less."

[highking]

Peter hesitates. "Speaking philosophically, Professor, what are your thoughts about knowing one's own future?"

[awesome_lilly]

Puck's a mental case, literally, which means that right now Lilly is stuck taking care of both babies. Well. At least until the people she's been bribing show up. In the meantime, she's got one baby on each hip and a small parade of waitrats holding her stuff and following her around while she looks for a spot.

She really wasn't expecting to see any High Kings.

"Peter?"

[highking]

"Lilly?" There are babies.

[awesome_lilly]

There are, and she almost drops them. Not quite, though. Lilly may not be overly maternal but she's got a good grip.

"I, uh, haven't seen you for a while."

It's not as accusatory as it might have been once. She's heard from Lucy of his work with his ward.

[highking]

He still winces, just slightly. "Yes, I've been horrible. It's just--easy, to unplug from Milliways. So much happens here, so quickly. Of course, the consequence is that when you evade the day-to-day madness, you get it all at once when you do finally return, which of course brings me 'round to "why on earth do you have those children?""

[called_lioness]

"You must be horrible bored," his sister notes absently as she settles in a nearby chair.

[highking]

"A bit," he admits. "But who is more bored, the bored man, or the one reduced to commenting on the boredom of others?"

[called_lioness]

"The bored man," she says immediately, with her best 'I am your youngest sister and thus adorable' grin.

"Always."

[highking]

He snorts, and flicks the spinning coin at her.