he isn't /always/ smart...

[raith_wraith]

He was good. For a while. Even if he did hang onto the card. It didn't really seem like the sort of thing he could exactly just dispose of, leaving a Faerie Queen's phone number lying around. Even if that was a bit irrational. Besides, there was always the chance it might come in useful some day. Maybe. So he kept it and went about his life

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[midwintersgrace]

The phone went to an answering service, at which Thomas could leave a message. The Winter Queen smiled a little when she heard, a few moments later. Not that she'd been sitting by listening for the call; in point of fact it had been a somewhat remarkable coincidence that she'd been at the office at that particular time

[raith_wraith]

Thomas should have expected the answering service. But he hadn't, so there was a moment's pause before he began to speak. And when he does, his voice is clear and calm, as if he's simply leaving your every day message for any old person.

"If you have the time, I'd like to finish our conversation of before. There are a few points I'd rather like to have clarification on." He gave his phone number and the times he'd be available for a 'chat', though he rather suspected she needed neither pieces of information. "At your earliest convenience, naturally. Ta for now, darling!"

[midwintersgrace]

Really, Mab had no intention of letting him pick the time and place when they would speak. That would be putting far too much control (read: any) into his hands.

Which was, among other reasons, why she appeared at his door a few minutes later.

"At my earliest convenience, you said?"

[raith_wraith]

If Thomas was startled, he did well at not letting it show at all. He merely stepped back from the door to give her room with a gracious smile, "yes, yes I did."

He did not, however, expressly invite her inside.