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"I did." Hecate said looking over to Lexi. Didn't she tell her she hoped she didn't mind, and all that stuff about the talking and the being fond of her? "Please set, I don't like the warming charms over the food for too long... it takes from the real flavor." She served the artichoke, one on each plate, and then said "I tried to keep the meal vegetarian friendly, if any of you are... If you don't eat the lamb, I won't be offended and Jarod will have more." She said with a nervous laugh.
Oh, that's right. Lexi had grown so awkward and nervous in the past five minutes that she'd completely forgotten that Hecate had told her she'd invited Risu along.
Get it together, Carlton. It's just a dinner with colleagues. "Oh, that's right. I seemed to have forgotten that you mentioned it," she said, possibly turning a bit brighter shade of red as she spoke.
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Waterloo Sage quickly took a seat. At the head of the table where Hecate had instructed him to. He didn't really want to sit.. he wanted to get out of this laboratory sharpish. His knees though, were starting to feel awfully weak with nerves and he DID feel slightly better sitting.
Just slightly.
He was still a nervous wreck.
"Oh, this looks great.. 'specially the lamb," he said out of politeness, eyeing the artichoke on his plate. "You're a natural chef." Why was he paying her compliments!? She'd probably laced it with poison..
He was never going to see the light of day again... never tend for his flowers again...
With some of her food now in front of her, Lexi tried to distract herself by glancing down at the artichoke. She wasn't sure if she'd like the big green dish or not, so she experimentally poked her fork into it, finally pulling out a small piece a moment later.
It was alright. Maybe it'd be an acquired taste.
"Oh, it's great, Hecate," she politely said, turning toward the hostess with a smile.
...and then, she fell into something that had almost become too natural--conversation with Sage.
"Oh, Sage, won't you come by my office in the next day or two? I need a little help naming that ferret I was telling you about. The one I got for my birthday," she said, doing as she normally did and having random conversation with him.
Only, a second later she sort of remembered what kind of setting she was in, and she glanced nervously away and looked at her food again.
"I mean, umm...this artichoke is really good, Hecate," she said again.
"Wouldn't you agree, Risu?"
Awkward date talk. Ugh.