[Closed] Tea and the Times

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders, Petrana
WHAT: Overworkers unite
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Petrana's office
NOTES: We'll see.

He knocks on the open door to her office, giving her the usual smile when he comes over with his teapot.

"I'd say we should stop meeting like this but I rather like meeting like this. Is now a good time for a tea break?" As much of a break they ever take. There's an overwhelming amount of work to always be done, sometimes to the point where it feels tangible. Which is why he comes over for tea, or part of why. The company is also welcome.

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It means a great deal to her that he asks - that he cares.

She allows that feeling to sit for a moment, if only a moment, her own hands closed firmly around her teacup, conscious of the press of her wedding ring between flesh and porcelain. What had she hoped, then, as she had spoken? God, how to even know. Too many things happening, too much to juggle, so much bubbled close to the surface where it didn't belong. Where it does no one any good.

“One day,” is all she says.

Not today.