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faelans_follyIt's still strange to me, not being at the cafe all hours of the day. Arriving at five in the morning to start the day's baking, staying until past six in the evening to clean and right the place for the next day had been the rule.
Now it's the exception. Turns out, having someone to wake up next to in the morning makes leaving bed to mix scones the absolute last thing I want to do when the sun starts to lighten the sky.
Two assistants take care of morning and evening prep and cleaning. I breeze in around ten in the morning and head out around four when Jack comes by to pick me up on his way home.
Some days I don't make it in at all.
Today, though, I'm readying the cafe to welcome the equinox. Pumpkin spice lattes, muffins and breads. Hot cider and thick, rich stews will take the place of the chilled beverages and fruit from the summer.
Based on the smiles I see from the people coming through the doors and reading the day's menu board, the changes are welcome ones.
Now it's the exception. Turns out, having someone to wake up next to in the morning makes leaving bed to mix scones the absolute last thing I want to do when the sun starts to lighten the sky.
Two assistants take care of morning and evening prep and cleaning. I breeze in around ten in the morning and head out around four when Jack comes by to pick me up on his way home.
Some days I don't make it in at all.
Today, though, I'm readying the cafe to welcome the equinox. Pumpkin spice lattes, muffins and breads. Hot cider and thick, rich stews will take the place of the chilled beverages and fruit from the summer.
Based on the smiles I see from the people coming through the doors and reading the day's menu board, the changes are welcome ones.
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Date: 2013-09-22 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-22 04:50 pm (UTC)"No, it's... I'm not the older Harry in a younger body," I explained, shaking my head. That wouldn't be such a huge issue, really. I'd hate to be stuck in my 12 year old body, but going from his physical age to my physical age wouldn't have been too bad.
"I'm in my early 20's. This is the first time I've ever seen you."
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Date: 2013-09-22 05:05 pm (UTC)"And you're saying you have no idea how this happened at all?" I take a breath. "Because if the you I met several months ago left the town, you arrived in his place, and I had no idea either had taken place then I may very well have a very serious problem with the town's stability."
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Date: 2013-09-23 04:33 am (UTC)"I have a vague idea," I admitted. "Which is slightly worse than no idea at all."
If ignorance is bliss and knowledge is power pretty much everything in between was stupidly dangerous, which is right where I was sitting. Go me.
"What we think happened isn't that I switched bodies, but that everything about me has been de-aged. Body, memories, all of it."
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Date: 2013-09-23 05:20 pm (UTC)"I know a few in this town that would probably love a spell like that, so you might want to not let it get around that whatever she did worked the way it did." I thought about Levi's appearance-driven mother and shuddered. "So you were wondering if I could put the memories and crows' feet back?"
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Date: 2013-09-24 05:03 am (UTC)"Something like that," I said with a nod. Honestly I was hoping she could just wave a magic wand or whatever and fix it all, despite knowing that magic didn't work like that. Sometimes accidents could be harder to fix than actual spells or curses just because of all the unknown factors involved.
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Date: 2013-09-24 05:18 pm (UTC)"I guess we should start over, huh? I'm Maggie Donnelly." I hold my hand out to him.
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Date: 2013-09-25 04:10 am (UTC)"Harry Dresden," I said, giving her a smile but making sure I didn't look her in the eyes. I don't want anymore soul gazes collected than I have to have. Especially not if she's connected to this city in some way.
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Date: 2013-09-25 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-26 04:50 am (UTC)"If you mean direct eye contact will result in us seeing each other's souls with the image permanently burned into our memory, then yes," I said with a nod. "I have a thing with direct eye contact. Also, the cookies here are very distracting."
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Date: 2013-09-26 01:22 pm (UTC)I should probably not comment on it, but I've never gotten along well with subtle. "That's truly what happens when you look into someone's eyes?"
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Date: 2013-09-27 03:17 am (UTC)"Anything with a soul," I said with a not, reaching into my pocket to pull out my wallet. Joke all she wants but those cookies look seriously amazing. I can't remember the last time I had anything resembling homemade cookies.
"It's... generally not a lot of fun."
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Date: 2013-09-27 04:13 am (UTC)I wave at his wallet. "What's that for?"
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Date: 2013-09-27 05:33 am (UTC)"Trust me, I'm pretty good at avoiding eye contact," I said with a shrug. I do appreciate the warning though because some people's souls are way more messed up than others. I don't need something like that sticking with me.
"It's for the cookies. They look really, really distracting."
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Date: 2013-09-27 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-28 10:34 pm (UTC)"Oh that's not good," I groaned, looking down at the (apparently free) cookies. Before they were just a treat. Now they were going to become an addiction, I could tell.
"Because then I can just have as many as I want, anytime I want."
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Date: 2013-09-29 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-29 08:45 pm (UTC)"I've just never had ready access to homemade chocolate chip cookies," I say. That sort of thing wasn't really abundant in the orphanage and Justin and Ebenezer weren't really big on baking. I could probably hang out here all day and eat cookies non-stop.
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Date: 2013-09-29 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-30 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-30 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-02 04:45 am (UTC)"That's where you're wrong," I say, eyeing the cookies again and thinking that maybe one or two of them wouldn't hurt. "Because if I tuck my shirt in, I can stuff a whole bunch down there to carry home, making my middle bulge.
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Date: 2013-10-02 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-04 04:01 am (UTC)"I think you mispronounced incorrigible," I told her, although I flushed a bit at the compliment. Compliments of that nature weren't something I was used to.
"But I will take four cookies to go. Two for me and two for Molly."
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Date: 2013-10-04 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-04 04:08 am (UTC)"That depends on what day you see her," I said. Sometimes it's a surprise to wake up and see what she looks like. Not that she ever looks bad or that I even notice her hair right away.
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Date: 2013-10-04 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-05 03:12 am (UTC)"Free, right. That's absolutely what I would have said too," I told her. 'Strong' and 'wild' would have seemed better to me but 'free' was probably more politically correct.
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Date: 2013-10-05 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-06 05:49 am (UTC)"I am a wizard," I reminded her. Not that being a wizard had anything to do with that, but wizards were all mysterious and such. Granted, I was probably more Bilbo than I was Gandalf.
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Date: 2013-10-06 02:49 pm (UTC)The expression on my face is one clearly stating my disbelief that magical abilities have little to do with creative phrasing.
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Date: 2013-10-08 04:32 am (UTC)"Ahhh, so you understand perfectly," I said with a nod. I've learned that if you can't convince people of your point it was best to just act like they agreed with you anyways. Or maybe it was the worst to do that. It was one extreme or the other, that was for sure.