( and it's approximately 3 minutes round-trip to the counter. corrine is as efficient and obliging as ever, and serves up two fresh black coffees in record time. clarke manages the mugs back to the table, swerving around other gathered sets of people in mandatory attendance — all with record little spilling of piping hot liquid all over her knuckles.
she sets accelerator's before him first, then settles back into her seat and sets her own mug on lacquered table top. absently plucks exactly one cream and two sugar packets from the caddy on the table, without ever seeming to entirely take her focus off him. right back into conversation — )
So, the semi-permeable barrier. Stuff's not getting in. How do you think we get here?
no subject
( and it's approximately 3 minutes round-trip to the counter. corrine is as efficient and obliging as ever, and serves up two fresh black coffees in record time. clarke manages the mugs back to the table, swerving around other gathered sets of people in mandatory attendance — all with record little spilling of piping hot liquid all over her knuckles.
she sets accelerator's before him first, then settles back into her seat and sets her own mug on lacquered table top. absently plucks exactly one cream and two sugar packets from the caddy on the table, without ever seeming to entirely take her focus off him. right back into conversation — )
So, the semi-permeable barrier. Stuff's not getting in. How do you think we get here?