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evilblackdoxy Aron chuckled and rested one of his strong hands on the back of his neck. "True, but the word zombie usually causes widespread panic...and it would probably be a bad move if the general wizarding public thought that the Ministry's employees were turning into zombies." Yeah...because all the employees were dying and then rising from the dead. "I'll just stick with the name Droolers until we come up with an official title for the situation."
Would that be left up to the Head Cabbage?
"New South Wales, a small mining town called Broken Hill," he nodded, somewhat aimlessly tapping on the counter with his knuckles. "South Africa? Is that where you are from too?" And if so then how did she come to find herself here?
Ah yes, the visitor badge. So he did have to wear one of these things. Meh. He felt like a tomato shrub being labeled in a garden. Just in case you, you know, it wasn't already obvious that he was a Solanum lycopersicum in the middle of a garden of Cucumis sativus. Oh well. Accepting the badge, Aron pinned it to his coat - right below his MLE one.
"You....have any coffee around here?"
As Jade made them both coffee, she remembered that she hadn't said anything about the fact that Aron had mentioned that he was from New South Wales.
"You did say that you were from New South Wales, right?" She asked him handing him his cup of coffee.
"Because my family are also from New South Wales-- they live in Sydney though. Is where you live closer to Sydney or Canberra? Or neither."