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Christopher Summers (chrisss) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-04-18 19:04:00

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character: chris summers, character: pandora montgomery, character: richard summerby

RP: Site Visit
Who: Chris + anyone who'd like to join in
What: Chris brings a group of interested folks to an estate in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire for the first Orphanage site visit.
Where: Potential future home of the Fawley Home
When: Saturday April 18, afternoon
Rating: SFW.

It was a chilly but clear day, which was fine with Chris. He'd met a small group of interested parties at the office and then they'd portkey'd to an estate in Cambridge. The home had once belonged to an old man related to Adrian Pucey, but that was all Chris knew about the former owner - the witch realtor had said he had little to do with the land anymore, and the Pucey estate was next door (if you could call 12 acres away "next door"). At first sight, the place was huge but Chris knew that space - and multiple bedrooms - was more than necessary. The land was 20 acres total, with a small stream in the wood in the back, it was already zoned to put in a pool (which Chris thought was a nice bonus) and the main home - he didn't feel comfortable calling it a house, it was clearly much more than that - had 14 bedrooms. It had it's own private road and most of the estates in the area were owned by old magical families of varying sizes and histories. This home had caught his eye the most of all the ones he'd been researching.

"Well, here we are," the blond real estate agent said when they entered the house, having come up a gravel walk way through the main entrance. The foyer was lovely, though Chris immediately noted in his journal that there would need to be rugs put in because the gorgeous hardwood flooring - in a lovely cherry if he guessed right - wouldn't last long with children running all about. She brought them on a tour and soon Chris' notes had taken over half a dozen pages.

He looked to Dora at one point with a nearly hopeless look in his eyes - he loved the place but he was afraid there was something he was missing. "What do you think?" He asked her. He knew her the best of the group of travelers, and he trusted her opinion.

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pandacharms
2015-04-19 02:24 am UTC (link)

"Oh, Adrian is good people, don't get me wrong," Pandora assured him, touchiing his arm and nodding. "And it's not the area, per se. But even if it was an ancestor who was an inventor, or a third cousin twice removed, strange things can pop up on old estates." Her face lit with a sudden impish grin as a memory grabbed her. "You wouldn't believe half the stuff we stumbled on as children at home. I'm surprised we didn't meet untimely ends." The mischief belied her words - she had had a pretty good childhood, to be honest. "I swear that one suit of armor triedto behead me for a whole year that time."

"I would recommend no smaller than the dormitories at school," she said after a moment of thought. "They probably have some study or another at Hogwarts or elsewhere on how small to go. I know I always prized my space at school." And the people she allowed in her space, especially now, even with it bigger, was rare as well. "A certain degree of privacy is always treasured, more so, I'd guess, by orphaned children. Or maybe that's simply me." She shruggedslightly. "I hated the dormitories my first year, but I've grown accustomed to less space since then."

"And some of the space will be for rudimentary schooling and such, I'm certain, yes?"

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