Lunchtime at Ess-A-Bagel [RP for Cait]

[zippyknowsbest]

Zippy peered out through the windows of Ess-A-Bagel for any sign of Cait's dark head in the throng of passing people. Difficult, in this weather-- intermittent rain throughout the day meant that half of everybody looked exactly alike: an umbrella. Hard to pick out features under those

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[a_chaitlin]

Zippy's chatter does win a smile from Cait as she slides into her seat, a bit tired but nonetheless genuine. Being with her friend reminds the young púca that she's allowed herself to become too isolated over the past weeks. She's as hungry for simple companionship as food.

Scanning the menu, she dimples at the librarian. "Thank you for coming, a chara. I think I shall give the whitefish a try, and do you know what soups they've got today?"

Truth to tell, her appetite has been in minor overdrive ever since she helped to heal Pippa. She has an energy debt to make up.

[zippyknowsbest]

"Haven't the faintest," Zippy responds crisply. "But I guess you could ask this one--" she nods at the approaching waiter.

"Heya Sammy, vos is neias? How's your mom?" she asks the young man with a grin, who smiles in return.

"She's doing okay, Miss Levine, I'll tell her you said hi. You ladies know what you want?"

"You betcha," Zippy answers, handing over her menu. "Iced tea and the lox and cream cheese sandwich for me, hon. And I think my friend wants to know about the soups?"

Sammy nods, and rattles off the day's choices for Cait.

[a_chaitlin]

"Mmmmmm." Cait gives the soup selection a long moment's consideration, then nods. "I'll have the vegetable beef soup and the whitefish salad platter, and iced tea for me as well." A sudden thought prompts her to flip the menu open for one more quick scan. "And a mushroom knish with that, please."

As Sammy heads back with their orders, she gives Zippy another wry smile. "Been a very long month."

[zippyknowsbest]

Zippy laces her fingers together on the tabletop and adopts an expression of amiable interest falling just short of too eager. She's quite curious-- as she's always been about one Caitlin MacEibhir-- and she has the feeling that whatever it is Cait needs to get off her chest today, it will be, if not necessarily the answers she wants, at least something to fuel her curiosity for a few years more.

Anyway the key is not too look too eager. Just here as a friend to listen to a friend's woes and all that.

"Nu? Nobody sick or anything, I hope? Health is everything."

As far as Zippy can recall, Cait has never mentioned anybody in her family ever being under the weather.