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How To Be Civilized, Friday, Period 3

"Welcome back," Seivarden said, standing in the front of the class as if they were a group of baby Lieutenants she had been given command over. She gestured towards the bag filled with a selection of gloves (none of them Mae-shaped, sadly).

"Unless you have brought your own, find a suitable pair."

She continued: "Last week I asked you about your tea preferences. Some of you had good taste, others not so much. Today we're going to make proper tea."

On the table in front of her were an arrangement of teapots, cups and bags of different kinds of tea.

"Sadly it is impossible to get proper tea flasks here, but these pots will do. Pick a tea you like, brew it according to the instructions and then describe the result and your reflections."

[~~Wait for OCD~~ OCD is up]

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Making tea.

It takes the subject seriously.

Edited 2020-01-17 10:30 (UTC)

There's a selection of black, green and white teas of good quality. No artifical flavours and definitely no tea bags. Or milk or sugar. There is honey and lemon.

If she's here.

Who might judge you if you make bad tea or don't wear gloves.

I actually agree with Seivarden about tea bags. I don't judge or insult people about it though.

Edited 2020-01-17 10:34 (UTC)

Tisarwat

She is there!

And not at all looking smug about the mention of a 'proper tea flask' which she very much had, thank you very much, but would very kindly not bring it up, because Seivarden was aware of this fact and it would be very rude to bring it up just to rub it in her face.

Although a part of her would always be tempted to do so.

Mae Borowski

"If you don't have your laser digital thermometer handy. . . ."

Please pardon Mae's cackling in the back of the class. That was the funniest damn thing she'd heard in weeks.

Mae had brought her own gloves to class today! They were, as discussed with the teacher last week, used work gloves. Very used. Probably dug out of the trash somewhere, judging by the suspicious stains gracing the battered gray and blue leather.

They also didn't fit terribly well, because apparently no one in this town knew how to make gloves for people with small ~~paw-like~~ hands. So handling the teapot and and little spoons and things was . . . not the easiest for Mae, today. . . .

Seivarden looked at Mae, frowning.

"First, what kind of gloves are those, second, what are you doing to the tea?"

"They're my work gloves," Mae said, the 'obviously' going unspoken. "And . . . making it?"

Torturing it, probably.

"Those gloves are dirty," Seivarden pointed out. "And when are you planning on actually put the tea leaves into the pot?"

"They're work gloves," Mae said again. "You said they counted if they were used."

She was going to make you regret all your life decisions this semester, Seivarden.

"And . . . eventually?" Wait, what had the video said? Mae had been laughing too hard by that point to really listen. ". . . When the laser pointer says it's ready?"

"That was not what I meant."

Seivarden wasn't sure if this student was being deliberately annoying.

"Mae, is it? Well, Mae, why do you have tea on the table?"

Mae looked at the tea on the table. "It's taking a nap."

You try not spilling with poorly fitted, bargain brand work gloves.

"Just be glad you didn't choose one of the expensive teas."

Seivarden sighed.

"Even a sock would work better than those gloves."

That was not an encouragement to get creative with socks, Mae.

Really? Because it sure as heck sounded to Mae like Seivarden was telling her to wear socks on her hands next week.

"I'll clean it up," she said. "Where's the little scoopy netty thing?"

The infuser. It was called an infuser.

"The what?"

She frowned, confused.

Lana Beniko

"The thing!" Mae said. Because that would help. "That you put the leaf debris in. The pool cleaner but for tea." She drew a little shape in the air, but that likely wasn't going to be all that effective even without the floppy too-long workglove fingers.

Lana had actually come across this video in her Sunday research. She was fairly certain the man had been joking, but she had found one anyway. She nudged Mae with the Force and showed it to her, smirking.

She was sort of wondering what else it would do.

Well, if this was going to be a honey and lemon tea, black tea was not for that. So Lana was going to pick a nice white tea, put it in the pot, set up her digital laser thermometer, and then start working on getting the water to boil.

With the Force.

So basically, she'd set it up and was staring at it for the moment.

Mae looked over. Lana was apparently very excited about her new . . . thing? Alright. Mae gave her a thumbs up -- well, she turned her hand so the floppy glove thumb was on top, anyway, and grinned back.

Edited (because google shows a very different style of thermometer than the video has) 2020-01-17 17:41 (UTC)

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How To Be Civilized, Friday, Period 3

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