Somebody less prepared might be startled when the nondescript figure suddenly slid into the chair opposite them, but Evie was certainly not as relaxed as she appeared - she had scanned every person in the bar from the moment she walked in, and already spotted Haytham as she passed him, but there was a ritual to these proceedings and it wouldn't do to disrupt things.
She nodded politely at his enquiry, the agreed upon response forming almost automatically upon her lips. "As uneventful as can be, I hope business this week has been good for you?"
The opposite of the truth, technically, but they didn't say these things because they meant them.
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Somebody less prepared might be startled when the nondescript figure suddenly slid into the chair opposite them, but Evie was certainly not as relaxed as she appeared - she had scanned every person in the bar from the moment she walked in, and already spotted Haytham as she passed him, but there was a ritual to these proceedings and it wouldn't do to disrupt things.
She nodded politely at his enquiry, the agreed upon response forming almost automatically upon her lips. "As uneventful as can be, I hope business this week has been good for you?"
The opposite of the truth, technically, but they didn't say these things because they meant them.