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kitchen_maid) wrote2012-08-11 09:18 pm
kitchen_maid) wrote2012-08-11 09:18 pm
Continental Breakfast Included
The King and Queen have a great many parlors at their disposal, ranging from the very grand to somewhat very grand.
And then there is this one, which is generally reserved for the use of the family and their closest personal friends. It is a comfortable, sunlit sort of room, where one may find the children's toys and the Amy's embroidery and Perry's carving projects.
It is also where Amy has instructed her staff to lay out a breakfast for her friends this morning. They were all shown back to their rooms for what was left of the night before after their adventures, to at least attempt to get some rest.
Amy herself is a bit busy at the moment catching up on Official Matters: giving reports to the Deputy Captain of the Palace Guard and the Court Historian, seeing to the palace's new ghost (she's settled him in the Northwest tower, which is, she assures him, a perfectly lovely place to haunt), and reassuring her husband that yes, darling, she really is perfectly all right. She'll be along when she can.
In the meantime, everyone is free to make their way into the parlor in their own time. When they arrive, they will likely find company, and definitely find a table laid with everything the kitchens could find to send up: bread and jam and marmalade, cakes and pastries, eggs and bacon and sausages, a giant bowl of fruit, tea and juice and milk.
And then there is this one, which is generally reserved for the use of the family and their closest personal friends. It is a comfortable, sunlit sort of room, where one may find the children's toys and the Amy's embroidery and Perry's carving projects.
It is also where Amy has instructed her staff to lay out a breakfast for her friends this morning. They were all shown back to their rooms for what was left of the night before after their adventures, to at least attempt to get some rest.
Amy herself is a bit busy at the moment catching up on Official Matters: giving reports to the Deputy Captain of the Palace Guard and the Court Historian, seeing to the palace's new ghost (she's settled him in the Northwest tower, which is, she assures him, a perfectly lovely place to haunt), and reassuring her husband that yes, darling, she really is perfectly all right. She'll be along when she can.
In the meantime, everyone is free to make their way into the parlor in their own time. When they arrive, they will likely find company, and definitely find a table laid with everything the kitchens could find to send up: bread and jam and marmalade, cakes and pastries, eggs and bacon and sausages, a giant bowl of fruit, tea and juice and milk.
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"We'll probably send for them to come back later today."
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A fractional amount of tension leaks out of X's shoulders.
"Good."
Beat.
"When your magician returns, he will make sure that the spell is over?"
She may have been worrying about this since talking to Meg.
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"And if you want to stay tonight and make sure nothing more happens, you're welcome to."
Amy would want to.
Just to know.
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"Thank you."
It could be important.
And it will help minimize worrying. A little.
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"I'll get Duncan to make the necessary arrangements."
It's what Duncan does. He's very good at it.
"I'm sorry that was what was meant to be a diverting visit to see a football game wound up involving quite so much running around and solving problems, but I am very grateful you were here, X."
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This is the truth, and the speed of X's delivery is not intended to be defensive.
"And I am glad you are no longer dancing."
Beat.
"Except when you want to."
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"It's very different when you want to be doing something."
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X is very serious when she says that.
Deadly serious.
And, several long moments later, when she has tried to find better words and pretty much failed --
"I am sorry."
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"But it's over."
That's the most important part.
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X pauses again, head tilting as she studies Amy.
Then --
"You have had time to eat? Today."
Queens are busy. Sometimes sacrifices must be made.
X knows.
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"Yes. They sent a tray up from the kitchens."
Though Amy always feels a little bad when they ask the kitchens for odd things at odd times.
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Beat.
"Sometimes people forget. When they are busy. It is less difficult for me."
For one, she tends to be unable to pass out.
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People tend to fuss over Queens.
And Amy has a staff.
Also, a very concerned husband.
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"You do not dislike that? Sometimes."
Beat.
"I like when it is quiet."
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"It goes with the job. And I knew that when I agreed to marry Perry.
"But, yes. Sometimes I dislike it quite a bit."
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"And they get in trouble a lot."
It's not really the same thing, and X knows it.
But it's what she's got.
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X is very certain about that.
"My apartment is good for that, too."
Beat.
"If you want to visit. When you are less busy. I have cats."
But sadly no dragons.
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"Thank you."
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Something in the set of X's expression relaxes.
It is kind of like her version of a smile.
"I think you will like it."
She hopes so, anyway.
It is important.
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"I'll look forward to it."