Tea for Sarah

[arlenarkenstone]

With Thorn gone for a few days the furnaces are quiet and cold. Arlen doesn't like it that way, because he likes the heat and there is a kind of life and energy to the lab with his assistant around. It might not just be the furnaces and the glassblowing. It's kind of nice to work with somebody else again, and Arlen had forgotten that.
But he still has Aodhan. The teapot likes it in the lab and likes being used to make tea, and it has gotten very good at keeping out from underfoot. Probably it likes Thorn too.
When he knows Sarah is coming to visit, Arlen clears a space at one end of one of the big tables and sets Aodhan and some cups on tiles there. The cups are kind of chipped from him and Thorn using them around the lab but they are clean, and the tiles are scratched and marked up because they're the heat-resistant kind that they use around the glassworks to set super hot metal and glass on. It is not a pretty table that he has set up but it is the best he can do. The whole lab is one huge room big enough to be an auditorium and the traditional furnace takes up a lot of one end of it and Arlen looks very small sitting alone at one end of a table in the far corner, huddled up and waiting with his hands under his arms to keep warm. Not that it's all that cold but it seems like it is by contrast.

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[sarah-branigan.livejournal.com]

Sarah arrives after checking with Arlen via PINpoint that it was a good time. She is dressed in her usual style of clothing, a dress appropriate for cooler weather. She has a plate of tea cakes with her, little frosted squares decorated to look like presents.

She didn't expect his lab to be so big. She stands by the door and looks around before spotting Arlen all the way at the other end. "Hello, Arlen. This lab is so impressive!" She walks towards him, mindful of anything in her way, her heels clicking on the ground. She's completely lost her Western accent, sounding like her old self.