First Entrance.

[withusyouwillstay]

[OOM pre-entrance: Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
Things that go to make up a life
Endless days of summer longer nights of gloom
Waiting for the morning light]

It may be a little bit late in the month for new faces to appear, but today sees a new one regardless.

When he steps into the room, the confusion over where he is now is apparent, but the bewilderment in his visage isn't down solely to finding out that there's a room in the House that shouldn't be there.

It's the look of someone who has forgotten a lot of things over the years.

Someone who needs help remembering.

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[OOC: Information about the Home By The Sea and the burglar, here.]

[Tiny tag: the burglar.]

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[sunbaked_baker]

Bright scents of cinnamon and good yeast dough follow the red-haired woman into the bar room from the kitchen. The cinnamon rolls are cooling, waiting to be iced, so she has escaped for a moment to have a cup of tea she doesn't actually have to make herself.

Drying her hands on her apron, she gives an automatically friendly smile to the person in the doorway.

"Hello there," she greets him, wondering if his confusion is that of a newcomer to the bar.

[withusyouwillstay]

It's about one-third confusion at being a newcomer.

"This is not the room."

Well. Obviously.

[sunbaked_baker]

Her expression clears at his words - she sees it definitely as the confusion of a newcomer.

"It is a room, but probably not the room you were expecting," she says, all wry sympathy. "I suspect this is your first time to find Milliways. This place, I mean. It's called Milliways, and it sometimes likes to show up unexpectedly for people."

[withusyouwillstay]

I guess when you get down to it it doesn't really matter how much of the confusion is newcomer confusion.

He just looks at her, baffled.

"It is not part of the House?"

[sunbaked_baker]

"Not part of any House, I'm afraid," Rae says, gently. She has no way of differentiating between causes of his confusion when the only one that is readily apparent to her is the man suddenly finding himself in a strange place. She assumes his confusion is all due to the sudden appearance of the bar. "Milliways is definitely it's own thing."

"Would you like something to drink? It's traditional that one's first drink is free - most people need it, the first time they find themselves here."

[withusyouwillstay]

Not part of the House?

But then he would have to remain in the House, and only look into this... This... Mill... Milly... Milliways? The ghosts - the ones who didn't babble nonsense, anyways - said so. If there's one thing he can remember, it's this.

Alas, he can't think of how this is possible - it's another part of his mental faculties he can't access yet.

"Drink..," he repeats.

What is a drink? he wonders to himself, though he instinctively wets his lips regardless.

[sunbaked_baker]

"Water, perhaps?" she says, wonderingly. Something tells her that alcohol might not be a great idea at this time. After a brief request to the Bar - on her tab, so she isn't taking his free first drink - she offers him the cool glass. "Here, it might do you some good."

[withusyouwillstay]

Poor lad wouldn't benefit any from liquor when he's already fuzzy-headed.

This glass looks almost like one of the glasses in the cabinet downstairs, and he lifts it closer to get a better look.

Closer.

A quick flash of memory. Of putting glass to mouth and swallowing contents. And then it's gone.

Then he drinks.

When you haven't done something in a very long time, the sensation it creates can almost overwhelm.

He hasn't felt cold inside in... In...

How long has it been?

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae blinks at his reaction, whatever it was. "Are you all right?"

It's a question that she has been wanting to ask more and more the longer she's been around this fellow.

[withusyouwillstay]

Certainly not your standard-issue new patron.

"I. I am fine."

Pause.

"Just ... cold."

[sunbaked_baker]

"I'm sorry. It's warm outside, if you'd like. It's August here, so summer is in full swing. Or the bar could provide you with a blanket...?"

[withusyouwillstay]

Outside?

Maybe. If he was able to come into this room, and it is not a part of the House, then perhaps...

"Where is the outside?"