Parker is dressed for comfort this evening; Hearst t-shirt and pajama pants. They had gotten slammed at the store today. Great for business, but Parker had dragged herself home exhausted and footsore.
Though not nearly as exhausted and footsore as certain friends a sure to be.
"You escaped!" Parker says with a wide grin.
She plops down in a seat next to Amy, tucking her feet up.
"I may have . . . sort of implied that there was something vitally important that I had left in the South Southwest Drawing Room that no one but she could be trusted to fetch . . .
Mia, being a pregnant Queen(ish) Regent of a small Katarinian city-state currently dealing with a tabloid attempting a scandal, can so relate.
She can smell the tea and raises Amy some strawberry tarts, left from the last time she baked.
She steps closer, close enough for her to really smell the tea and for Amy to really smell the tarts. Those heavenly, sweet, downright otherworldly tarts.
And then, in true Guildmaster style, Mia says, "I propose that we make some negotiations."
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Though not nearly as exhausted and footsore as certain friends a sure to be.
"You escaped!" Parker says with a wide grin.
She plops down in a seat next to Amy, tucking her feet up.
"Don't tell me you drugged your maid."
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"I may have . . . sort of implied that there was something vitally important that I had left in the South Southwest Drawing Room that no one but she could be trusted to fetch . . .
"Hello, Parker."
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Parker smiles.
"Hey Amy. How goes it?"
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"How are you?"
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She can smell the tea and raises Amy some strawberry tarts, left from the last time she baked.
She steps closer, close enough for her to really smell the tea and for Amy to really smell the tarts. Those heavenly, sweet, downright otherworldly tarts.
And then, in true Guildmaster style, Mia says, "I propose that we make some negotiations."
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"We would be foolish to refuse negotiations without hearing the proposal," she says, grandly, but her eyes dance.
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"You are welcome to-"
She briefly looks at her plate.
"-a number of my strawberry tarts, but I would love some tea in exchange."
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"I'm Amy."
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And then --
"Hello."
Beat.
"You are okay?"
Parker said she was, but it is polite to ask, right?
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"Yes, I'm well, thank you.
"How are you?"
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Beat.
"Here and at home. I do not mind."
Well, she minds the murder, and she minds that someone is planning to use the Legacy Virus against mutantkind, but the busy part --
That is okay.
"Perry is okay, too?"
Beat.
"And Norman?"
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If the last question surprises her, it doesn't show.
"Norman is, too. He seems to like being the Royal Dragon, even if he doesn't really want to admit it."
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