bellfounding
"Yeah, we've been at the same parties before but never really talked," she snorts.
bellfounding
"The tea dropping? Nah. I am accustomed to occasional tea-dropping." She elbows Ripper, a little.
bellfounding
Pattern flops her head onto Ripper's convenient shoulder.
jellyinthemix
Some combination of the tea and the adorable definitely seems to be calming Giles down.
tearingup
So of course now is the perfect time for a near-exact duplicate of Ripper to enter the room, nibbling on a chocolate chip cookie and trailing a pied-kingfisher daemon.
Ripper cracks up.
Ripper part two looks from Ripper to Giles and laughs.
"Giles, this is Keth," says a grinning Ripper. "Keth, Giles."
Ripper cracks up.
Ripper part two looks from Ripper to Giles and laughs.
"Giles, this is Keth," says a grinning Ripper. "Keth, Giles."
bellfounding
"Do you not talk to Jane much? Amariah found this one on a template-sweep after she met mine," says Pattern, gesturing illustratively. "I think that's all of them, except Merryweather, of course."
jellyinthemix
...Giles is now looking between Ripper and Keth with an expression that might be best described as dawning realization.
tearingup
"...What?" says Keth, blinking back at him.
Ripper starts giggling into Pattern's hair.
Ripper starts giggling into Pattern's hair.