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fandomhigh2023-05-12 10:13 am
intheeyeofthebeholding) wrote in fandomhigh2023-05-12 10:13 am
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The other kind of tea, Friday
If Jon looked a bit haggard today...that was just Jon. If you didn't know him, you'd get used to it. He'd done his best to get put together, so he was in nicely pressed trousers and shirt, but the too-skinny, too-scarred, and insufficiently-rested part there wasn't much he could do about.
Ditto the "I lost an argument with a moose" look. He was wearing that one a lot lately, too.
"Last semester, the moose had me teaching tea," he announced with a sigh. "Apparently he didn't actually mean the 'because you're English I thought you'd know it' type." He probably owed Tahani an apology, wherever she was. "Why on Earth he thinks I'd be interested in gossip, I have no idea."
Maybe because you were an actual physical conduit for a god of awful secrets, Jon?
"Whatever the reason, I suppose we're gossiping this term. We might as well start with the royals, as there's just been a coronation and lord knows they're an entire lifetime's worth of gossip on their own."
He grimaced. "If you're unfamiliar with the British royal family, more power to you. Otherwise, let's discuss, I suppose. Personally, I think the Duchess of Sussex was the smart one - she skipped the entire thing. Her husband apparently left as soon as was diplomatically possible. Meanwhile, Princess Anne - was she blocking Harry's face to spare him, to shut him out, or just because that happens to be where she was supposed to sit and the hat has a sodding great feather on it?" He pinched the bridge of his nose. "What I'd really like to know is why any of this is still relevant in this day and age when we ought to be funding shelters and the dole rather than ridiculous displays of generational wealth, but apparently that's not what this class is for. So gossip about the royals instead."
He gestured at the desk up front. "I did at least bring actual tea. From the Perk, not my own." Because his own tea was rubbish and he knew it.
Ditto the "I lost an argument with a moose" look. He was wearing that one a lot lately, too.
"Last semester, the moose had me teaching tea," he announced with a sigh. "Apparently he didn't actually mean the 'because you're English I thought you'd know it' type." He probably owed Tahani an apology, wherever she was. "Why on Earth he thinks I'd be interested in gossip, I have no idea."
Maybe because you were an actual physical conduit for a god of awful secrets, Jon?
"Whatever the reason, I suppose we're gossiping this term. We might as well start with the royals, as there's just been a coronation and lord knows they're an entire lifetime's worth of gossip on their own."
He grimaced. "If you're unfamiliar with the British royal family, more power to you. Otherwise, let's discuss, I suppose. Personally, I think the Duchess of Sussex was the smart one - she skipped the entire thing. Her husband apparently left as soon as was diplomatically possible. Meanwhile, Princess Anne - was she blocking Harry's face to spare him, to shut him out, or just because that happens to be where she was supposed to sit and the hat has a sodding great feather on it?" He pinched the bridge of his nose. "What I'd really like to know is why any of this is still relevant in this day and age when we ought to be funding shelters and the dole rather than ridiculous displays of generational wealth, but apparently that's not what this class is for. So gossip about the royals instead."
He gestured at the desk up front. "I did at least bring actual tea. From the Perk, not my own." Because his own tea was rubbish and he knew it.
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