[collected from the hall-table in 504 the following day; there is a tip rolled up inside a very old piece of paper money from Russia before the fall of the Tsars tucked under a plate which is pocketed before the tray returns to the kitchen. What is left on the plates is a lot, as is 504's way, but more has been eaten than is usual. The paper scrap is found folded into an origami bird and on the back is a very short description of a forever-silent woman with kisses like knives -- it's half finished, and clearly torn out of a notebook.
Written in that same curious and slanting handwriting -- 'if you are going to be emphatic about it, perhaps another spice. But I do like cake'.