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Hope Lamb ([info]here_but_there) wrote in [info]bloodroyale,
@ 2019-07-19 14:21:00

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Who: Rabastan Lestrange & Gwenog Jones
What: Reunion (#3)! Dinner!
When: Friday, July 19th: evening.
Where: London: Luminosa



Gwenog once tried to count all the colors of marble in Luminosa’s dining room. She had to stop at thirty-four for fear of eye strain and sheer ridiculousness. She’d said as much to Rabastan and the wanker had simply laughed. Like a wanker. Naturally.

Still, she supposed the man could be forgiven for finding her conniption easy to ignore. Ridiculous, sure, but there was something thickly satisfying about the heft and lushness of Luminosa. The gilded ceilings and weighty furniture, the carved archways, the - agh, Morgana’s tits - chandeliers. Something in the highly-wrought air spoke to Gwenog on an ancestral level.

Unfortunately, the food was great. Amazing. Downright ambrosial.

Gwenog was expertly chaperoned to her table, feeling mutinous as always when passing through the lovely setting and past the lovely people. One witch was wearing a tiara while enjoying something that looked like an apple sculpted out of pure gold. Gwenog wanted to climb up on her table and punt it. She resisted.

Adding insult to injury was the waiter’s sincerity in greeting her. Years of haunting the place like an ambitious alley cat had made Gwenog a familiar face in the place.

Plus there were the unfortuna--exciting events of the Bog Whiskey Taste Test in ‘99...



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[info]rdlestrange
2019-07-19 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Rabastan was in the kitchen when the Maître'd announced, in a thick French accent, that his "little friend" had arrived. The jest was not lost on Lestrange; translated into French 'little friend' meant sweetheart or girlfriend. As such, he shot his employee a disparaging look before dropping a shoal of galleons into the Head Chef's tip jar for the impending trouble Gwenog was likely to cause him, making sure the Maître'd knew he would be getting nothing.

Stepping out onto the restaurant floor (which was always a stark contrast to the bustle of the kitchen, in which swearing was considered the chefs' mother tongue during peak time) Rabastan's eyes were immediately drawn to the obnoxious sparkle of Marchioness Rowle's tiara. The witch always adored being the centre of attention and this evening was no exception as she entertained a gaggle of noblewomen who were apparently hanging on to word after vacuous word.

"A bottle of the Perignon for Marchioness Rowle, Hannah." Lestrange muttered quietly to a passing waitress as she returned to the bar, "With our compliments. Tell her that Lord Lestrange says she looks a magnifique in her Aunt Margeurite's tiara." He shot the waitress a wry smile, which was quickly returned - along with a tray of two delicately poured aperitif cocktails for table twelve.

Arriving at table twelve, he picked up one of the glasses from the tray (which was expertly balanced on the tips of his fingers) and gently placed it in front of Gwenog. The other he placed opposite her before holding the tray out behind him. After four seconds it was snatched up by a passing employee (he didn't look to see who it was, but four seconds was far too long and he made a mental note to scold them all after close), and Rabastan sat down across from the journalist.

"New recipe," He started, gesturing to the lilac drink in front of her, "It's called Leta's Folly. Let me know what you think."

As he spoke, Hannah arrived with a menu for Gwenog and a basket of warm, fresh bread.

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[info]here_but_there
2019-07-22 12:59 am UTC (link)
Alcohol in lieu of a hello – there was a reason Gwenog liked Rabastan as much she did, despite what Luminosa did to innocent vegetables.

She accepted the drink with one and the menu with the other, only to immediately pass latter over to Rabastan. This was his home field, after all; why shouldn't he take the lead? Besides it felt too much like a taking a test of the resident Headmaster. Even if Rabastan wouldn't judge her selection, he had the wherewithal to do so and Gwenog would rather spend her energy on pleasanter targets.

The drink in her hand, for example.

Gwenog had grown up in what some romantic would describe as “genteel depletion” which was a needlessly delicate way of summarizing the fact that her family had a castle, a title, and not enough funds to buy floor polish. Whatever money oozed out of the estate was promptly funneled into the grand show, the perpetual quest to “show well”. There may have been patches on Gwenog’s mattress, but her robes had always been bespoke - in public.

There was however one luxury that her parents had seemingly maintained out of genuine appreciation rather than tufthunting: food. Her father was a genuine gourmand, and home dinners reflected this even at their leanest periods. It was a true family trait; more than one Jones had married with a stocked cellar in lieu of dowry.

All of this was to say, whatever she consumed she did so with attention.

White rum said the first sip. The ghost of bitters, lime juice, flower syrup naturally, and…

"Maraschino liqueur ?" Gwenog asked. "Is your Leta hiding cherries in a lilac tree, then?"

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