My fair faire

[sunflowerfields]

Who: Erryone
When: Day 170, right before leaving for Heartstone Manor
Where: The cookhouse
What: dinner and a show A crash course in table etiquette, and/or your chance to get your bad behavior out of your system.
Warnings: Watch your damn language.



With the threat of behave or die hanging over their heads, Hinawa is feeling very nervous. She's only tangentially familiar with the rules and regulations of formal dining and mingling, having only experienced it for the first time during the Celebration, and for the most part she's just a simple country gal. The last thing she wants is to get everyone in trouble because she used the wrong fork, and she can't help but feel like she's not the only one, so she comes up with a plan!

She only hopes it'll be enough.

[This is a mingle-ish! Jump on in!]

Comments

[diamondsare]

This is true. How could any of them know the future?

"It is unfortunate I have no Sapphires here. Such a mystery would long since be solved, and we could properly be prepared." She shakes her head, as if to shake the thought off at the same gesture; no point wishing for the impossible.

"Perhaps he will be generous with our mistakes for the first day, if this lesson is wrong." And then afterwards drop the hammer! The concern kept her from fretting too much about other things, but she was still left ... with a spoon. "Though might it not be prudent to bring our own things, on the chance that he is also one of those who expects guests to tend to their own needs?"

Like silverware. She'd been told the spoon is the most important, and she hadn't forgotten it!

[atouts]

Several different spoons, to boot, though why Blue Diamond has an extra one with her, Childermass sure can't tell. He looks down at the silverware on the table, then at the spoon she has in hand, though he just shakes his head as he looks up at her again. It's a good question to ask from someone who doesn't have to deal with dishes and utensils, but he can at least put that to rest.

"He will have enough for all ahead of our arrival," he answers. "Otherwise he would be a poor host, expecting us to bring our own spoons and forks when he's the one who's invited us over for dinner."

Dinner and then some, but those are all completely different worries.

"You won't have to worry about that part. The Prince's staff will have everything prepared for guests beforehand."

[diamondsare]

"Unless he is expectant of us bringing all of our own supplies, as we are a burden he may not wish to have." She doesn't know, and it sounds like a guess. One can only guess, truly, at the whims of the fae aristocracy. "Simply to have something to be irate about."

Yellow would do that, she mused. If it were the right gems and she were feeling piqued enough about something. Blue tended to not bother.

The spoon in hand vanishes somewhere up her voluminous sleeves, possibly to a pocket out of sight. "I suppose we will find out upon arrival. Likely as we serve the Ringmaster, so too will he have servants, who may be assigned to explain such troublesome things in detail."

And spare them all the concern entirely.

[atouts]

That, at least, Childermass can answer, over whether or not they're expected to bring supplies. Blue, Blue, that isn't how hosting a party works, but at this point, he'll need to assume gems don't have parties just like they don't eat food. So, he gives his head another shake.

"That much you won't have to worry about," he assures her. "When you invite people into your home it is expected you provide for your guests. You house them and you feed them as reasonably as you are able to, which, as I said, should include silverware."

[diamondsare]

Gem parties are very different and probably not even a LITTLE BIT fun by human reckoning. Things like fun and good times are rare commodities for anything not a Diamond.

"My kind are ... exceedingly self-sufficient, such things would not be required on Homeworld.." she sounds more apologetic than anything else; this venture is a Big Deal to the Ringmaster, and thus it was a Big Deal to Blue as well. Whatever was going on was vitally important! "I admit human culture is far more complex than it seems on the surface."

And that's just from observational standpoint, not guessing why these things happen. "Though why a nonhuman has chosen to mimick it, I do not understand." There's a pause and she waves one hand as if to dismiss her own words. "It is something I may discover in time."