[ Oh - so it wasn't a ploy. This dawns on Claude slowly and then all at once with Sylvain's smile of apology and then Hilda's concern he recognizes as very real and not one of their shared tactics. Clearly she really doesn't have any money with her, and tempting as it might be to let Sylvain pay he's also not about to take what seems like the last of the other's money if he can avoid it.
Well. He certainly read that incorrectly. Time to fix it. ]
Hold on a minute, please. [ The employee pauses and gives him a Look which has him putting his best smile on for interrupting yet again. At least they'll probably leave after this? ] Go ahead and keep everything in there we ordered. It can stay.
[ Time to withdraw his coin purse after all and a bit sheepishly, much as he can manage. There's a tip jar on the counter he'd missed before in the excitement of ordering, so the first order of operations is to drop a good handful of coins in there. If not because of their (his) behavior, then because there's surely about to be other tipsy patrons wandering through yet tonight. In retrospect, he probably should've started with this, but next he gets to counting out what's needed to pay. ]
We'll take everything and be on our way. All the better to make sure everyone gets to enjoy something when we get back to the inn, right?
[ The two of them getting something they actually want out of this is more important as far as he's concerned. Sylvain doesn't have to sit there with tea only for lack of having anything else, and Hilda gets the sweets she'd wanted in the first place by stopping here. ]
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Well. He certainly read that incorrectly. Time to fix it. ]
Hold on a minute, please. [ The employee pauses and gives him a Look which has him putting his best smile on for interrupting yet again. At least they'll probably leave after this? ] Go ahead and keep everything in there we ordered. It can stay.
[ Time to withdraw his coin purse after all and a bit sheepishly, much as he can manage. There's a tip jar on the counter he'd missed before in the excitement of ordering, so the first order of operations is to drop a good handful of coins in there. If not because of their (his) behavior, then because there's surely about to be other tipsy patrons wandering through yet tonight. In retrospect, he probably should've started with this, but next he gets to counting out what's needed to pay. ]
We'll take everything and be on our way. All the better to make sure everyone gets to enjoy something when we get back to the inn, right?
[ The two of them getting something they actually want out of this is more important as far as he's concerned. Sylvain doesn't have to sit there with tea only for lack of having anything else, and Hilda gets the sweets she'd wanted in the first place by stopping here. ]