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The Bar has an uncanny ability to sense when Ianto comes into Milliways to brood: she always asks him to bartend on those days. He supposes this is a good thing: it keeps him from dwelling too much in his own head.

There's nothing wrong with playing to his own strengths, too.

TODAY'S SPECIALS
COFFEE
Vermont Coffee
Gunline Coffee
Newfoundland Coffee

He takes off his jacket and tie, and rolls up his sleeves.

Ninja!barista!teaboy on duty.

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"I assume so. It's what they're famous for." He leans on the bar, lazily swishing a tea towel back and forth. "I've never been."

"The new lands beyond the oceans are far from where you live, are they not?" Teja says, drinking his coffee.

"Thousands of miles," Ianto says. "It is four times as far from London to New York as it is from Rome to Constantinople."

"Oh," Teja says. "I am sure, before there were flying machines, men did not travel back and forth very often. It would have taken long."

"Weeks by boat, I believe. I'd have to look it up."

"Oh no, 'long' suffices as description," Teja says. "I do not mean to make the voyage by boat; if I go there, I go from here, through somebody's door."

"Best way," says Ianto. "Better in a blink of an eye than hours and hours, even by plane."

"I would hesitate to spend too much of my limited time in a world merely travelling, also," Teja says. "I only have ten days at the most. So, wherever I go, I would go straight there, and not stray too far from the door: - certainly not further than a day's travel!"

"I've heard about those complications," Ianto says. "When I've brought friends home they've not stayed much more than overnight."

"I faded, once," Teja says.

Ianto winces, but his natural curiosity gets the better of good manners. "What did that feel like?"

"Not much," Teja says. "I felt faint for a moment, but was distracted by the feeling I had, holding my beloved in my arms. And then, I entered again here, thinking myself fresh from my death, knowing nothing."

Ianto processes this with a frown. "Interesting," is all he has to say.

"It was very disquietening, to my friends and my beloved," Teja says. "But I had my memory of my afterlife returned to me, which was a great relief."

"I imagine it would be, forgetting all you've done since you initially died."

"Indeed," Teja says, "especially as I had forgotten about my beloved, and called him offensive names, and pushed him away from me."

Pause.

"It was a bad, confusing time, as I had all those things I had taken months for the first time around, thrown at me within days. But near the end, I was already opening my heart to him again."

"Indeed," Ianto says with a small shiver--if Jack ever forgot him--well.

"It was so good to find myself again, and throw myself into his arms again," Teja says, sipping his coffee.

"Yeah," Ianto says quietly. "That's a good feeling."

Teja nods, and sighs into his coffee with a happy little sigh.

[ooc: Wrap this?]

[[OOC: Yes, good wrap point!]]

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