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| cœur perfide | super prosecutor | Ameh's Squishy SPOILER!!: Mariel
QUOTE=emjay;11633563]Green eyes skimmed over the opened paper in search of the familiar byline as she distractedly worked through her fettuccine. Mariel knew what he had been working on lately so nothing would really come as surprise but she enjoyed seeing his articles in print. Nothing in there today though, so she once again turned to the front page headlines to see if there was anything else of interest.
An article about a poorly controlled magical fire had just caught her attention when a voice and request caused her to glance up. "Oh.. Dmitry, hello," she said with a smile as recognition quickly set in. It had been quite some time since she had seen the not-so-new-anymore Ministry worker. "Not at all, I certainly don't mind the company," she added, folding up the paper again to allow him more room for his tray. She couldn't help but to allow her eyes to rest on the amount of food that he had there. "Nice to see a healthy appetite, you must be working hard," she said with a grin. At least that was often the way with her, hard work made her hungry, as was the case today. "So how are things on Level Five?" As much as she dearly loved her department, it was all Quidditch all the time lately with the event planning and she was actually welcoming the chance to talk about someone else's work for a few minutes to break up her day.[/QUOTE] Oh good. He wasn't interrupting her. He had been slightly worried about that since she'd been reading the paper. It was nice to hear that the company was appreciated though. "Hello Mariel, anything interesting in the paper?" he returned her smile as he took the blue seat across from her own and began picking at his stew, gesturing to the Daily Prophet with his other hand. It was spicy but tasted divine. Good to see a hearty appetite? He couldn't help but chuckle slightly at her comment about his appetite meaning he was working hard. "I believe the saying goes hardly working," while he was fluent in English sometimes, especially after being back home, he didn't get sayings exactly right. Dmitry was confident however that this time he had. "It's really more that I haven't eaten since yesterday afternoon. I only actually got back to London late last night," he told her with a shrug, digging into the stew in earnest now that he knew it tasted good. "What about you, did you have a good holiday?" he asked her, not merely to be polite but also because he was interested. While he wouldn't call Mariel a friend, they didn't see enough of each other for that, she was an acquaintance and from what he saw of her he liked her.
How were things on level five? She wanted to talk about work? Well, Dmitry would oblige. Taking a sip of his juice Dmitry thought about what he could actually say about work on level five. "Well right now not much is going on. We had a meeting earlier today and we're apparently going to be hosting the Council Meeting this year and there are some people that will be visiting over the course of the year as well according to Gidyun that security might be needed for. He hasn't given us all the details yet, but I'm thinking if we do need security I'll have to liaise with the MLE," he told her with a wry grin, recalling Mariel's dislike of that Department from when they'd first met. "Other than that we've really been trying to get the paperwork back in order. Most of the employee records were destroyed by the Chizpurfle's, including mine so I've spent time this morning filling it in and getting acquainted with new and returning employees," Nikki seemed nice and like someone he could get along with easily and although he hadn't talked much to Bhuvana he did hope that she settled in well. "Other than that I'm now the level five liaison so I'm going to have to try and familiarise myself with the Ministers Office in greater detail. What about you?"
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