Log; Ongoing

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When; June 3, Afternoon
Rating; G
Characters; William Wordsworth prof_wordsworthand Rin Asano revenge_ethics
Summary; William invites Rin for afternoon tea at his flat. The two hope to learn more about each other's worlds.
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He was hoping that this time having tea with a guest he had invited would go better. Rin Asano sounded like a lively and intelligent girl. William was looking forward to talking with her. 

But somewhere at the back of William's mind, there was also the hope that for a few hours at least he could forget about Cardinal dei Medici arriving in the City and just how much work it would be to keep the foolish man quiet.

William sighed and looked at his pocket watch, it was almost 3 pm, time to get the tea ready.

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Rin exited the ninth building at precisely five minutes before three. She now had her own clock in her apartment, which was unusual to her, but she appreciated it now. The sun stood high in the sky and she looked up at it, and then around herself, shielding her eyes against the light which came down hard and burned against the concrete surroundings in the process.

She was looking forward to tea and a talk with the Professor, whose name she thought she'd never be able to pronounce. She was a bit wary, but he seemed trustworthy enough.

Hurriedly, she slipped between the buildings in front of her, crossed the main square, taking a roughly ninety-degree turn toward the left, where she would find the building number one, where the Professor lived.

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William arranged the tea set. The flat was mostly neat now but as with everything that William worked with, there was an organized mess. Books were everywhere as well as papers, even the pool table was littered with papers.

He hoped Rin wouldn't mind the mess too much.

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Having run up the stairs and reached what she hoped really was the Professor's flat, Rin knocked and stood back a step to wait for the door to be opened.

The building looked completely identical to the one she lived in. The walls were so even and gray and it looked all so drab that she'd considered taking up residence in the temple with Makie - but she could think about that later.

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William opened the door and smiled, "Hello Rin, come in."

He showed her to the sitting room, where a small table was ready with the tea set and a nice looking chocolate cake was neatly sliced. A noise from the pool table made them both look up.

"You bloody hat, stop doing that!"

The pool table was talking and it sounded very angry, with what looked to be William's top hat.

"A-ah...yes, they've been talking for the last few hours." William said a little sheepishly.

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Rin followed the Professor quietly to the sitting room, where she admired the beautiful, foreign-looking tea set and wondered just what that on the plate next to the cup might be, as she had yet to taste both cake and chocolate.

When a third person's voice could be heard, she started slightly and looked up, about to apologize in case she had interrupted another visit - but there was no one.

"Who's been talking?", she blurted out, rather confused.

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William frowned and pointed at the pool table, where now the hat was also talking.

"I'm not doing anything, your being stupid again." The black top hat snapped.

"You were looking at the papers, I could tell." The pool table snapped back.

William rubbed his forhead, "It's a curse day, most of the inanimate objects in my flat have come alive."

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Rin stared. And stared. And blinked.

"Ah... yes. I have heard of the curse days." No, she wasn't going to be surprised anymore. Not much, anyway. Never mind she had never seen a top hat OR a pool table in her life to begin with.

So she thought she'd ask. "What are those, anyway? The table looks strange."