The Principal's Office

[tailor_made]

The door to the principal’s office is open at all hours, although you will only find Hester at the receptionist’s desk from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. This is primarily where you can have private conversations with her. Though there’s an actual office in the back, it is always closed and locked.

Comments

[tailor_made]

Come in! [Hester's voice rings out from behind the door and with a soft click the door audibly unlocks.]

[violentenvies]

[This feels somehow Unsafe, but that might have more to do with the whole Everything about the situation. But he's on a mission, so Salieri pushes the door open, and steps inside.]

Good morning. I hope I'm not troubling you too early. [if nothing else, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, so he'll play polite at the moment]

[tailor_made]

[The office is a much more modern than Salieri is probably used to, with a copier machine sitting against a back wall and a small clock on the wall that reads 8 am on the dot. Hester herself has opted for wearing something a little less semi-formal than the day before, a simple black blouse with a green cardigan. She gives Salieri a smile when he comes in, setting down the black eyeliner pen she'd just been using.]

Not at all! I've always said "if you're not fifteen minutes early, consider yourself late". What can I do for you, monsieur?

[violentenvies]

[Despite being extremely wary of Hester (and more so of whomever is watching over her,) Salieri inflects a polite, mildly affable disposition]

I was hoping to inquire as to the possible procurement of brewing vessels and equipment for short mead.

[tailor_made]

Mead-? [She frowns a little.] Oh! Like the kind of wine you make from honey. [Hester purses her lips for a moment, tilting her head just slightly and glancing down at the open laptop behind the high front of the receptionist's desk.]

I can certainly put in a request for you but I wouldn't be able to get it until tomorrow at the earliest.

[violentenvies]

[that is...honestly way sooner and easier than Salieri was expecting] That is more than acceptable.

[tailor_made]

Good! [Her grin returns, bright and cheery as ever.] Just give me a list of everything you need and I'll get right on it.

[violentenvies]

Ah, certainly. [fortunately, he brought paper with him already so he'll just take a moment and list out the items he'll need including seven gallons of honey, two large wooden half-barrels, one regular aging barrel (36 gallons) with a tap, 8 gallons of barme, and three handfuls each of rosemary, sage, hyssop and thyme. Once written, he'll set it on the counter]

These items would be enough for me to create a barrel of short mead.