Laser-toting robots are convenient for no one, but Benny had managed to (mostly) skip that on arrival and took the long way around Xanadu to get better acquainted with the place. It's new and it's strange, but she's fond of both things and she thinks she's starting to get the hang of it. More or less. Enough to have purchased a few things to take back with her in her purse, and enough again to have found a quiet bar where she's sitting when Bruce arrives.
Being as there's no one else present, she decides it would be odd not to acknowledge one another and she lifts her wine glass in a sort of friendly salute. "Bonjour."
The feeling of nostalgia, coming into this place and being presented with some new person, is present, but mostly he's just glad it's not crowded and that the woman sitting there isn't someone he doesn't want to see. (There are so many strangers here who 'know' him - still, when he's in one of those moods, it's better than home.)
"Salut," he responds, voice a bit muted - more casual than she, but he doesn't look like someone who's going to be formal.
Well! It does seem like the kind of place that breeds familiarity, and if she doesn't miss her mark he's not a native speaker - this place seems to have a lot of English-speakers for somewhere that purports to be the central point of all universes. Benny's theory is some sort of sympathetic reverberation and that it'll become less and less familiar the further one ventures out, but it's her first day and beyond being far from home, she's not doing that much venturing yet.
"You seem more familiar-" not 'at home', quite, so she doesn't say so, "-here than I do yet. Not new?"
It's refreshing to hear her speak French - plenty of people swap languages for quirky greetings; it's rare someone's actually a speaker. She doesn't sound native, either, but certainly more in step than he is. Regardless, he responds in kind, his accent American but with curiously soft edges.
"In and out. Not in enough to be a regular, these days." He sits a few paces from her at the bar, close enough for conversation but far enough not to be imposing. "Accidental arrival...?"
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Laser-toting robots are convenient for no one, but Benny had managed to (mostly) skip that on arrival and took the long way around Xanadu to get better acquainted with the place. It's new and it's strange, but she's fond of both things and she thinks she's starting to get the hang of it. More or less. Enough to have purchased a few things to take back with her in her purse, and enough again to have found a quiet bar where she's sitting when Bruce arrives.
Being as there's no one else present, she decides it would be odd not to acknowledge one another and she lifts her wine glass in a sort of friendly salute. "Bonjour."
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The feeling of nostalgia, coming into this place and being presented with some new person, is present, but mostly he's just glad it's not crowded and that the woman sitting there isn't someone he doesn't want to see. (There are so many strangers here who 'know' him - still, when he's in one of those moods, it's better than home.)
"Salut," he responds, voice a bit muted - more casual than she, but he doesn't look like someone who's going to be formal.
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Well! It does seem like the kind of place that breeds familiarity, and if she doesn't miss her mark he's not a native speaker - this place seems to have a lot of English-speakers for somewhere that purports to be the central point of all universes. Benny's theory is some sort of sympathetic reverberation and that it'll become less and less familiar the further one ventures out, but it's her first day and beyond being far from home, she's not doing that much venturing yet.
"You seem more familiar-" not 'at home', quite, so she doesn't say so, "-here than I do yet. Not new?"
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It's refreshing to hear her speak French - plenty of people swap languages for quirky greetings; it's rare someone's actually a speaker. She doesn't sound native, either, but certainly more in step than he is. Regardless, he responds in kind, his accent American but with curiously soft edges.
"In and out. Not in enough to be a regular, these days." He sits a few paces from her at the bar, close enough for conversation but far enough not to be imposing. "Accidental arrival...?"
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