Lavender hesitated at the mention of tea or really the end result and what either of them might see there. But she tried to let that go because it was why she was here, to get some sort of answers. Readjusting the bag strap on her shoulder she walked across the room to take the seat indicated. "I would have hoped that our fates were intertwined a better places, but..." In place of finishing her sentence she shrugged not exactly having the words she wanted. It was written might have been appropriate, but Professor Trelawney probably already knew that.
"I hoping that you might be able to help me with what's happening right now. I mean I have this database and a few ideas about it, but I still don't see the pattern, why us or why some people are connected." Lavender paused to dig through her bag for her notebook. "And then I've been seeing things in my cards." She might not have had the markings to make a true Seer, but she had spent years developing what she had (or didn't have) for an Inner Eye.