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Sitting by the fire is one immortal with hot chocolate, steak, potato's, and notepad. As she toils over the notepad the wonderful meal sits untouched.

Anyone who knows her might be suspicious about how intently focused on her work she is and those who don't might be curious. She is distracted and certainly distractable.

Her clothes are comfortable sweats, yoga shirt, and off to the side a zip up jacket to match the sweats. Also noteable is the sword sticking out of a gym bag within arms reach (some habits are hard to break).

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Nearby, on one of the tables, a small child is playing with some toy spinning cogs.

Not knowing how long she has been working the immortal quickly puts away her work and approaches Fry, not certain he will remember her.

"Good Afternoon Fry." she says as she sits near him, not too close and she remembers not to touch him.

Fry looks up, thinks for a moment, then says:

"Hello Amanda."

Amanda beams at him, thrilled he remembers. "It's good to see you again. What are you working on?"

"It's cogs." Fry says. "This big one takes twice as long to go round as the little one, I counted."

"I've never been very good at mechanics. Could you show me?" she believes him but right now she would enjoy watching him play.

"This one has seventy two bits and this has thirty six." Fry says, showing her. "So when this one has gone round the whole way, the other only had half."

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"And how do you decide to put them together? Which one goes where?"

"You can move them." Fry says. "If I put the medium one and the big one on and then put on the clicker it makes a good metronome."

"Do you like music?" the reference to a metronome, she asks as she watches him move the cogs about.

"Yes, I play the piano." Fry says.

"Daddy has a photo of you from his wedding. That's how I remembered what you look like."

"That was a wonderful day." she recalls with a warm smile. "Your mother was very beautiful in her dress."

"Would you play the piano for me sometime?"

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"Yes." Fry says. "It needs to go around ten more times, then I'll play for you."

He watches the cogs.

"Thank you." then, Amanda sits in silence while Fry finishes the cogs.

"Okay now I can play." Fry says, putting all the cogs back in their box in the right places.

He goes over to the piano and starts to play 'I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts'.

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Amanda lets him play alone for a bit before she starts singing alone, in perfect pitch.

"Don't!" Fry complains. "Start at the beginning."

Calmly Amanda nods, "Alright." and she starts at the beginning with him.

Fry doesn't mind so long as she sings from the beginning of the song when he plays. He doesn't like things to stop and start in the middle.

"I never ate a coconut." he says when he's finished.

Turning to him, "Would you like to try one?" she asks him.

"Do I have to eat the hairy bit?"

"No we can get it cut up for you." she waves over a wait-rat, "Is there any particular shape you would prefer?"

"No thanks." Fry says. "I never ate one before."

Amanda orders some prepared coconuts for the two of them. Then turns to Fry and tells him a story about a time she was deserted on a tropical island and had to climb the trees to get the coconuts for food.

"Why didn't you just shake the tree or use a long stick?" Fry asks.

"I couldn't find a stick long enough and sturdy enough and I wasn't strong enough to shake the coconuts free." with a smile, "Besides it was much easier for me to climb, I'm rather good at it."

"How did you pick the coconut without letting go of the tree?"

"I held onto the tree with my legs." smiling at him.

"Can you teach me to do that?"

Beat.

"Please?"

Amanda smiles, "I can, it will be alot of work." she warns without losing the smile.

"Okay." Fry says. "Thanks."

[ooc: Fade here? Thanks for the thread :)]

[OOC: fade is great! Thank you.]

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