Re: [Outside Secondhand Books & Cafe: Misha & Sadie]
If her eyes could have been star shaped for him just then, they sure woulda. As it was, they put on a real proper show of it when he talked about working in a Chorus in New York. The stage and the idea of performing sat with Sadie about as good as warm apple pie with a dab of vanilla ice cream on top. The story that followed it, to her, was just as interesting too.
Misha could think he wasn't much of a salesman but, as luck would have it, he'd stumbled into an audience where it's tack couldn't have been any more perfect. His candor and frankness was just the kind of thing Sadie needed. It put her on an even field, let her get a good luck 'fore she went stickin' her feet in something she ought not. She'd been content to just take the names in when he'd offered them too, before she thought on what else he'd said. Teeth touched her bottom lip again and a sip of drink was taken to hide it. She'd have to be careful tipping her hand here but, if the opportunity was as golden as he was laying out, not doing so just wasn't something she could afford -- almost literally.
"Would it be rude of me to ask that you set an appointment for me and you can come tell me when it is?" She didn't come right out and say that she couldn't rightly call someone, but the facts were the facts. The rest of it though, if she'd scooted any closer, she'd have fallen clean off her chair. It was enough to even keep the awkward wave from her question from toppling her smile for barely another sip from her drink. Besides, he'd quite literally just used the magic words and Sadie? Well she practically choked on that sip she was takin'.
"G'wan now!" Enthusiasm was completely undiluted now and she bit back the word quickly and carefully. "I mean, don't -- please don't --" Just in case, she covered that base, picking words to prevent that leap she'd just taken from landing her in a minefield of her own making. "That's brilliant is what that is." She smiled openly. "Always did love a good bit of magic. Never much gave a care to have it explained to me though. The surprise is the fun part, I think."
The last of the ice seemed to go tumbling from her personality at that word and the rhythm of conversation could be taken with more ease.
"S'awful kind of you to go sharin' all this with me, thank you." She meant it, from the top of her head to the tip of her toes. Warm as she chose to be in the world and untarnished as her smile had remained, Sadie would have been the worlds worst fibber if she didn't say that some kind of stability sounded like it'd be real nice right now. "Sounds like just the kinda place someone like me could find a space in." The latter, a cruel betrayal of the hope she'd intended to keep silence, bounced off the last sip of her drink.
"Come what may, was real nice to play with you today. I'd like to do it again sometime if you're agreeable." Because if nothing else came away from this talk, well, Sadie wasn't going to let that go unsaid.