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Who: Ilde Decima and Rodolphus Lestrange
What: Ilde wishes to bestow a priceless artifact upon Rodolphus.
Where: Queequeg's
When: TODAY, RIGHT NOW
Notes: if you don't like tentacles u a scrub
Warnings: ... tentacles, or rather, just one tentacle, a very small one (I presume)

While prior to his arrival in Baedal, such activities as 'going out for coffee/tea' or indeed anything other than 'running around hiding and killing people indiscriminately' had not played a large part in Rodolphus Lestrange's life. Even after he has for the most part become accustomed to life in this city, there are not many conventional leisure pursuits for someone like him. He reads a great deal, explores what he could, and lives frugally from job to job. His natural disconnect makes it difficult to find suitable employment, but he sees no reason to seek a more permanent vocation — yet. The city unsettles him, as does this world's propensity to neutralize his magical powers depending on where he was.

This, then, is a novelty, not only in activity, but the setting, as well as the other participant. He has been past and heard about Queequeg's but had never entered the premises before; the last time he 'socialized' with a significantly younger person or people was, in fact, the sea trip, and before that, the battle at Hogwarts. He remembers Ilde and Balthier best, but did not see fit to seek them out afterward.

... he doesn't expect anything sinister to happen, even with Ilde's ominous query regarding the fae.

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[rhinemaid]

Narrower in the face and subtler in the madness.

"It won't try to eat your face off," she says, philosophically, as if this is a quality one should be concerned about in tie-pins. Or in remembrance of the wonders of the deep, probably, because she's still irritated about those eels and would've been profoundly unhappy about it if she'd had to deal with them again in the recent monster incursion. (What was there wasn't fun, either, but it was a different experience. And, well, throwing a monkey into Alucard's mouth actually was pretty entertaining, all things equal.)

[pureandstrange.livejournal.com]

Finally he lifts a hand to carefully touch the pin. Enjoy this extended three seconds of a man playing with his tentacles.

"Is that a fairy promise?"

[rhinemaid]

Her brief grin is along the same lines of the earlier ominous inquiry, but after a moment or two she concedes, "Shop guarantee. It seemed prudent to ask."

It wouldn't be as funny if they were malevolent.