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Characters: Yukari Yakumo

border_phantasm and Alice Margatroid

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Date: Saturday the 26th.
Summary: Tea party at Yukari's place!
Warnings: ....tea?

Of course, usually Ran was the one who would do this, but her continued absence forced her hand.

After all, Chen was too young to set up things just right.

She gave everything a cursory look over. In the dining room, various tea bags and packets were on the table, as well as a kettle of hot water and cream for the Western blends. Then she opened a gap and brought in her guest.

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Strange things happen, yes, but Alice withheld a comment about the much older youkai being one who is behind them. She took a seat, looking slightly wary of everything.

"... Nice place."

"I'm glad you think so".

Yukari then sits down as well.

"What sort of tea would you like?"

"What do you have?" It was a simple question, yet Alice was mentally preparing for a rather lengthy list. Not that she's showing it.

Oh no, shes not getting away that easy.

"That would be telling".

Alice's face slowly turned to one of disbelief. She could not actually believe this was happening. It was tea, why was there being a mystery game about it?

"Are you being serious?"

Yukari's grin never faltered. "Now Alice, why not just make a simple choice? What would you like the most?"

Either Yukari had everything, or this was a test. Or possibly she was being screwed with. Alice couldn't decide which it was.

"How about chamomile?" It was a simple and easy type.

"Chamomile it is". Of course she did have almost everything. And she was just fooling around.

She takes one of the tea bags and holds it up. "Would you like me to pour the water for you?"

"Well, you are the host, yes?" As far as Alice knew, the host serving the guest was what is normally done.

"I always find it polite to ask. Some are rather...stubborn on doing things for themselves." And she poured the hot water from the kettle in a cup.

"Why do I get the feeling I know who some of those would be?" Alice said with a sigh. She was going to wait until her cup cooled first, it would just be stupid to try and drink at that temperature.

"You don't know the half of it" she said. Yukari then proceeded to pour her own tea.

A grin came up on Alice's face. She couldn't resist. "Should I be picturing you and someone else in a tug of war situation on who pours?"

"Oh, but I'm the sort who would let the rope go to watch them fall over".

Nothing like a little wordplay.

"Then it would be everywhere." Alice was still thinking on the topic of tea, so really, it would be.

"Then we'd have another tug of war over who cleans it up". At this point Yukari was just messing around.

"How would you..." Alice was going to ask how that would happen, but she decided against going further there. She did at least finally take the cup to her mouth, just for a tiny sip.

"Yes"? Yukari then sips her own tea.

Alice would find that her own tea is expertly made.

Taking a breath after her sip, Alice takes a bit of a deeper drink. She responds afterwards. "It's nothing. But this is quite well made. Ancient secrets?"

Yukari puts her tea down. "Knowledge is not everything. Practice is also necessary."

Alice couldn't help but feel the need to make a comment on that, both knowing that she has normally has someone else around and that she always thought Yukari took it easy.

"You have a lot of practice? Do you have a tea making hobby, even when you had your shikigami around?"

Yukari smirked. "Not so much a hobby, as much as after doing something for a millennium, you become quite good at it."

"... Is there anything you're not good at?" It was a simple question, with no hidden ill intent behind it.

She of course, new the perfect answer to that.

"Staying awake over the winter".

"And I hear no hint of shame in that fact." It was odd to Alice. How exactly could one say something like that, and be perfectly normal with it?