( A bright grin. ) Definitely. We'll have to continue this project, I think.
( Don't deny their power. ) Thinking about it is a start! ( Hand withdrawn, and playing with the umbrella again. ) You wouldn't be adverse to catering though, regardless of whether you attend? ( She can work on coercing Em to attend gradually. ) I can try and think of something that would make it worth your while, like-- ( ffff she's been drinking, her ideas are lacking ) -- oh, I don't know. I'll think of something later.
( She laughs a bit at that, just softly, before sipping away more of her drink. ) Really? I'm quite certain none of us are familiar with that, at all. ( Much more humour - she really is treating it like a joke, something they can laugh over rather than the serious matter she knows it to be. Happiness in denial, and all that. )
action. oh, html, why must you mock me
( Don't deny their power. )
Thinking about it is a start! ( Hand withdrawn, and playing with the umbrella again. ) You wouldn't be adverse to catering though, regardless of whether you attend? ( She can work on coercing Em to attend gradually. ) I can try and think of something that would make it worth your while, like-- ( ffff she's been drinking, her ideas are lacking ) -- oh, I don't know. I'll think of something later.
( She laughs a bit at that, just softly, before sipping away more of her drink. ) Really? I'm quite certain none of us are familiar with that, at all. ( Much more humour - she really is treating it like a joke, something they can laugh over rather than the serious matter she knows it to be. Happiness in denial, and all that. )