thelizziebennet: (Confuserated)
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Uh.

...This isn't  her advanced quantitative research methods classroom. 

It's bigger, for one. Fewer desks for sure. And there is a distinct lack of other students. 

Not that the place is empty. Far from it. It's pretty bustling, for a room that has replaced a small classroom in one of the oldest buildings on campus.

But the patrons do not really resemble her classmates. And Lizzie wouldn't exactly call all of the customers human. And then there's the view... (Lizzie's not even facing the Observation Window. All she sees are stars. That's more than enough.) 

Lizzie swallows hard and sinks into a conveniently located chair. 

"Uh." 

Date: 2013-03-26 02:38 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Tea Would Be Lovely Thank You)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Don't worry. Everything's easier with tea," Amy says.

Especially explaining the ins and outs of the end of the universe.

Date: 2013-03-26 02:43 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Queen of Ambergeldar)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"She sounds very clever," Amy agrees.

"I'm the youngest of seven. My older sister Opal was always very fond of solving problems with tea."

Date: 2013-03-26 02:51 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Queen of Ambergeldar)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Seven," Amy says, with a very decided nod.

"I get along better with some than others. Opal is lovely. Pearl . . . well, she and I have very different interests," Amy says, as diplomatically as she can manage.

"She's the youngest-but-me."

Date: 2013-03-27 07:05 pm (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Smug and Serene)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Hmmm," Amy says. "Well, if it's any consolation, which it may not be, as you and I have only just met, I suspect most of my older sisters should have said the exact same thing about me not too many years ago. And I haven't done so badly for myself. Or with getting along with them, lately, though we are pretty scattered these days."

Which may help.

Date: 2013-03-28 01:28 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Wisdom)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Yes, of course.

"We worry about the people we care about."

It's just a thing that happens.

Date: 2013-03-28 01:41 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Queen and Mother)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"That I have noticed, if only from the younger-sister side."

Older brothers worry, too, really.

"Sometimes, I think that's the other part of caring about people. Letting them worry about you."

Date: 2013-03-28 02:01 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Content)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Yes. But I don't think I should like the alternative at all."

Which is good, really.

Foe the entire Kingdom.

Date: 2013-03-28 11:37 am (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Smug and Serene)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Not as often as I used to, but then, I don't spend as much time here as I used to, which is not a reflection on this place and more a reflection on having a great many other things that require my attention."

Four children, a husband, a palace full of courtiers and staff, and the rest of the populace, to start with.

"But you're hardly the first person I've met when she'd just come through the door for the first time."

Amy pauses for just a moment and then adds, "You can still see the door you came through, can't you?"

Date: 2013-03-28 06:20 pm (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Grace)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"Well, thank you," Amy says.

"And, yes, it's a good thing. But if it ever vanishes on you, don't panic. It happens, sometimes. It's called being 'Bound.' It happened to me, once, but eventually the door comes back. I was told that you wound up Bound when there was something you needed to learn here. And some people it never happens to at all."

Date: 2013-03-28 07:10 pm (UTC)
kitchen_maid: (Grace)
From: [personal profile] kitchen_maid
"I learned that there were better ways to deal with problems than running from them, and that I was capable of more than I knew.

"They have been very useful lessons, really."

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