[ His footsteps hesitate for a moment before picking up again, because they'd both accidentally stumbled across a hobby he'd been poking at off and on ever since his visit with Claire. He hadn't been pursuing it with any real seriousness just yet - they already had too much on their plate at the moment for him to be dabbling in that. But it is something he'd been pondering over in the back of his mind. Trying to figure out how he could do it.

Not that he's about to admit that to either of them. ]

I think we're all particular when it comes to tea. I think we can blame the Professor for that. [ Even though he'd probably been a snob about it long before she started making tea time A Thing. ]

Pity Cadens doesn't have any pine trees, though. Maybe I can supplement something from Nocwich.