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Today is Wednesday.

Edmund starts work on Friday.

Bernard said he was to pick specials on his own.

He's fairly certain, having watched the other bartenders, that the specials ought to be somewhat original.

Which would be why Edmund has gone up to Bar and asked her a question quietly, and was not entirely surprised to get a very large book as an answer.

Also a pot of tea, because one can never go wrong with tea.

He takes his new acquisitions over to one of the couches, and makes himself comfortable.

It's a big book.

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"OK...well, she and somebody else from her world who also comes here were captured and held by Dark Wizards. Like Crouch, actually, they're from the same world. Anyway, there was a rescue mission, and everybody who went, apparently, hasn't got a tab anymore."

Edmund blinks, several times.

"-- where have I been, with all these things happening? You people must save all the interesting things for while I'm in the stables or the House of Arch, or something."

Faith snorts.

"Yeah, we schedule the capture and near-death of pregnant women just to aggravate you."

"-- and that's something else I didn't know."

Edmund sits back on the couch, reaching for his tea again, and shakes his head.

"I must be living under a rock somehow."

"They weren't telling people for a while," Faith says with a shrug. "It wasn't public knowledge until pretty recently."

"Huh," says he, and after a moment shrugs. "I suppose I should make a point of telling them congratulations when I see them, then."

Faith nods, smiling. "They're pretty happy about it...and I saw the Ultrasound. Er, magical ultrasound. It moves! Very cool."

Edmund gets an interesting look on his face.

It's the sort of look that says that he's made the mistake of visualizing this.

"... erm."

"Bernard would be glad to show you, I'm sure."

"I-- I'll keep that in mind?"

Faith grins. "You do that."

Yeah, she's enjoying that expression.

"Spend a lot of time in the stables, do you?"

"Quite a bit, yes."

His gratefulness at the new change of subject is slightly more than incredibly obvious.

"I've discovered that there are... five horses, I believe, for me to work with. My own, Peter's, Lucy's, Alanna's, and I've been keeping an eye on Alex's as well."

"I'm getting over the fear of horses thing. It helps to know I can pick them up and throw them around if I have to."

"I... daresay it would, yes."

He eyes her.

"Would you like to come out to the stables and help me with one of them sometime? I'd say Corella or Rachât are the two most easy-going."

Well, most of the time, anyway.

But he's training Rachât very thoroughly.

"Uhm, sure. I...haven't actually ridden one...no idea how to..."

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