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Who: Kaveh and YOU
Status: Open
Where: Surasthana Cafe on Eltrut!
What: The grand opening of a book cafe.
Warnings: God I hope not.

[Kaveh hasn't talked much about what he's been working on for a few months now, because he wanted this moment to be a surprise (and because he didn't want to be scolded for overwork). It has finally paid off, now, with the grand opening of the Surasthana Cafe, just in time for the deep end of the fall season. The cafe is cozily furnished and warm, the smell of lovingly brewed coffee floats through the air, and soft music plays from Mehrak.

Kaveh isn't expecting a huge rush on any given day--this was done for his own sake more than anything, but now on weekday afternoons, the little book cafe can be found and people can stay a spell, enjoying expertly made coffee drinks and some light reading in a ridiculous plant paradise.

If you have any requests for new kinds of books, or wish to purchase various accessories, stop by the front counter! The owner is happy to accommodate you, after all.

ooc: you may also treat this post as a mingle and toplevel accordingly, just mark if you are doing so! Otherwise, Kaveh will be coming for you!]

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Alright, then. Biryani it is. [Kaveh had suspected as much, but he knows how ornery this man gets if he doesn't get to make decisions, and this one is truly easy enough to give, so why not? Besides, biryani does sound good...It'd go well with some of the wine they have but convincing Alhaitham to let them open a bottle might be tricky. Hmmmm.]

Shadowlily, it's time to go!

[He calls out after a moment, and receives a sleepy 'mrrp?' in response as the dark-colored puddle that is their cat looks up. Truly, she really does take after Alhaitham.]

[There are a few days here and there where Alhaitham is fine with letting Kaveh decide their food for them, but he always appreciate being asked nonetheless. And now that their plans have been decided he can very much feel his stomach catching up to the news now, making a quiet rumble to indicate its readiness to eat sooner rather than later.

With the pins and needles in his legs mostly having subsided its truly time for them to leave now, and Kaveh calls out for the cat, who looks up from where she'd been stretched out on the floor close by. It only takes a moment after for her to get with the program, and then she's up from the floor and trotting over to them, winding around their legs and meowing out her own demands for dinner, which earns a snort from Alhaitham.]

None of the cats back in Sumeru would approve of you at this rate. [The cats back home all hunt for their own food!! They certainly do not get fed and spoiled as badly as this one here.]

Says the man responsible for the strays all hanging around our house?

[Kaveh won't deny he feeds the cats when he sees them, and made little shelters for them from Sumeru's storms, but he knows that the cats are hanging around because of another source of food.

A tall, green-eyed source of food who every single cat in the city seems to adore.]

Come on, come on, I'll feed you both, don't fuss.

I don't go out of my way to get anything extra for them, if that's what you're implying.

[Look sometimes he just has some scraps that would go to waste otherwise! It's all perfectly fine and reasonable okay, nothing like what Kaveh is thinking at all.

But that aside, food does sound more and more of a better idea now, and his legs are pretty much okay now so Alhaitham will move his hand to grab Kaveh's own, giving it a squeeze as he leads them to the door. Time to go back home and for Kaveh to make that biryani that he just promised.]

Of course you don't, Haitham. Of course you don't.

[He doesn't believe that for a second, but it's not worth arguing about. Not when they can walk home, hand in hand, with only a small 'oof' from Kaveh as Shadowlily hops up to ride on his shoulder rather than pad along behind them.

This isn't the life he imagined for himself, and all things being equal, Kaveh wants to build a life home, in Sumeru--but in the meanwhile, all this? Isn't so terrible at all.]