[NT] - Revel

[shaman_x]

[Open to everyone!]

Turn the right way down any street, glance down an unexpected alley, maybe you'll see it out of the corner of your eye. Maybe you'll catch a hint of the music drifting out of the invitingly open wooden doors. There's always something. It wants to be found, this in, this bar, this club, this pub, this restaurant. It has many

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[kara_marie]

Mike has promised that this place doesn't involve portals (promised!) and so Kara has agreed to go. Tis the season to go to a gazillion parties until your feet want to drop off and your face is going to crack from smiling after all.

She's solo tonight - Harry has been doing the bare minimum socialising required this season, tis the season for rejections to hit even harder than other times, and Ads is home with Daddy screaming about something and making a menace of herself. Kara herself would have probably stayed home, she's not been too social herself either, and since the Norman Osborn disaster (not disaster, miracle, she reminds herself - but she keeps that thought to herself) you can't go out without someone sticking a camera in your face and commenting on how the stress has made you lose weight, gain weight, look pale, resort to cosmetic surgery, get a pimple or just dress totally wrong.

So, even though she looks casual (jeans and a cashmere wrap sweater, red, it is Christmas) the outfit took a ridiculous amount of time to co-

[tm_aurora]

Jeanne-Marie isn't taken aback by Kara's outburst, she's not only used to it but actually likes it when Kara gets forceful. It's when her friend is quiet and reserved that she starts to worry.

"You're right, it wouldn't be the same." She says and she snags herself another glass of wine and downs half of it in defiance.

"I'd love to have a tea party with you," she says and leans on Kara for support. "You're probably the only one who knows how to do it right and you don't think it's silly."

[kara_marie]

"Lots of people have serious tea parties. It's called high tea and it costs like a gazillion bucks."

OK. Maybe not a gazillion but it IS pricey.

"Tea parties aren't all for kids, you know. In fact, tea parties are the new hot thing. Well... high tea. Very in vogue."

[tm_aurora]

"Really? Oh well we should have high tea together then!" Jeanne-Marie says, wondering if she's really starting to slur her words or if that's just her imagination.

"I have an antique tea set that Mr.Essex gave me for my birthday and have yet to use it."