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There's so many people here today...do you need help carrying something, Charlie? I can balance a couple of trays...
Yes. That would be amazing. You're an absolute blessing, Rapunzel. [Charlie? Sounding rushed and a bit stressed because there are suddenly a billion people around? Ppppsh...maybe a bit.] The blue tray and the extra sugars goes to the family of four by the window and the tray next to that, the party of eight by the front door.
[She's carrying trays for other tables and hurrying to get stuff out, even using her ability to keep stuff warm.]
[She's carrying trays for other tables and hurrying to get stuff out, even using her ability to keep stuff warm.]
Don't you worry about a thing, Charlie, I've got it!
[She grins, taking the trays and extra sugars, balancing them all on her arms like a natural.]
You should take a break, you look exhausted...
[She grins, taking the trays and extra sugars, balancing them all on her arms like a natural.]
You should take a break, you look exhausted...
You are phenomenal. Let me get a few of my orders out and then I'll sit for a few. [She really is tired, and sort of aching. And, again, all the people. Charlie just does not like crowds. Once the last few trays are delivered, Charlie finds a chair in the back room and pretty much collapses onto it, though the collapse is more for dramatic effect than anything else.]
I beg your pardon?
[ There is a gentleman here amidst the crowd, dapper and dignified in a well-tailored suit as he waits patiently to be delivered a cup of tea. ]
[ There is a gentleman here amidst the crowd, dapper and dignified in a well-tailored suit as he waits patiently to be delivered a cup of tea. ]
[Rapunzel grins and takes the remaining trays, making sure all the customers are satisfied before she gets a moment to herself, joining Charlie briefly in the back room.]
There's a lot more people here this weekend...usually the guest weekends aren't this busy!
There's a lot more people here this weekend...usually the guest weekends aren't this busy!
[Rapunzel nods, smiling a little.]
There's that. And they're buying the desserts too, which is good.
There's that. And they're buying the desserts too, which is good.
I can understand distaste of a crowd, but you may want to keep opinions like that to yourself while you're on shift.
[ And yet, despite the seeming admonition, he's offering her a smile that might be called conspiratorial, as though he completely understands. ]
I take it you're not always this busy?
[ And yet, despite the seeming admonition, he's offering her a smile that might be called conspiratorial, as though he completely understands. ]
I take it you're not always this busy?
[action; Rapunzel was traumatized so bad. :D it was awesome.]
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tangledintower
2012-01-27 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[That makes Rapunzel beam and blush a bit.]
An influx of interdimensional visitors? From a theoretical perspective, a phenomenon like that would need to be spaced out fairly generously along the continuum, lest the mass of close-placed punctures to the fabric of space-time tear it asunder.
[ He remarks this casually, punctuating it with a sip of his tea. ]
I'd hesitate a guess of approximately half a year, at least.
[ He remarks this casually, punctuating it with a sip of his tea. ]
I'd hesitate a guess of approximately half a year, at least.
[ He takes it unhesitatingly, shaking with a firm grip. ]
Professor Ernst Reisenbach. Harvard University.
Professor Ernst Reisenbach. Harvard University.
[ Shoulders on the counter. ] So do you do coffee in tea land?
Oh, thank christ. I been dyin' for a cup of joe, it's one of those days. What's with all the people here?
A pity you couldn't dawdle a little longer. I was enjoying our conversation.
[ He sips his tea again. ]
Though I wonder if I might trouble you for paper and a pen? I have an article on genetics due next week, and I'd rather not perpetuate the stereotype of the absentminded professor jotting his research notes on table napkins.
[ He sips his tea again. ]
Though I wonder if I might trouble you for paper and a pen? I have an article on genetics due next week, and I'd rather not perpetuate the stereotype of the absentminded professor jotting his research notes on table napkins.
I have an unused notepad under the counter. You're welcome to it. And I'll find you a pen. If I weren't so busy, I'd stay and talk.
[She was enjoying the conversation, too, sir. She hurries off for the aforementioned pen and paper, returning a moment later. There's also a tray balanced in her other hand.] Here. Back in a moment.
[She's off again, customers are served, the tray is put away and she's back to check on Ernst.] An article on genetics, hmm? Interesting.
[She was enjoying the conversation, too, sir. She hurries off for the aforementioned pen and paper, returning a moment later. There's also a tray balanced in her other hand.] Here. Back in a moment.
[She's off again, customers are served, the tray is put away and she's back to check on Ernst.] An article on genetics, hmm? Interesting.
[ In her absence, he has already begun to fill the pages with rows of neat, tidy notes, punctuated here and there by sketched diagrams. ]
My colleagues and I find it so, at least, though I admit it may not be as fit for public consumption. It's hard to sell the beauty of research discoveries to the public at large without a glamorous practical application attached.
My colleagues and I find it so, at least, though I admit it may not be as fit for public consumption. It's hard to sell the beauty of research discoveries to the public at large without a glamorous practical application attached.
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