Private Getting to Know Her

The house was in better shape than it had been in a long while.

Adelaida usually only bothered to keep things in the bare minimum of order to begin with. She spent every waking moment doing something, meaning she was either not in the house or too busy doing something else to clean up. At the same time, it wasn't like she had guests in some time. And usually, those guests were in there for the night only, and weren't the kind of people who were in the state of mind to nitpick.

She had few belongings as well. In her room was a single wardrobe, and a cabinet for the few trinkets that she owned. Most of her other things were on display in the living room downstairs, or in the kitchen next to it.

Downstairs, she was busying herself setting the couches straight, with the TV providing white noise to drown the voices out. She looked at one of the few things she collected - a full liquor bar - and was satisfied to know that it was still fairly well-supplied.

Adelaida had an excess of energy for today. She had invited someone who'd captured her interest over for drinks - a woman named Aliasse. They'd met by chance, and hadn't really had the time to properly get to know each other. Tonight, should it pan out, was Adelaida's attempt at remedying that.

She sat down with her first glass of whiskey for the night. "Nothing now but waiting," she said to herself. If it didn't pan out, at least she had Ancient Aliens to laugh at on the TV.

Adelaida found herself amused by the sound of knocking on the door just as Tsoukalos dove into the latest iteration of his pseudoscience. It was a wonder that even with so much supernatural nonsense going on in the world, people still managed to be so... wrong.

Anyone who'd been invited to her home had always been told to just make themselves at home and dispense with things such as decorum and manners. If this was who she expected, she was a little too uptight for her own good. Well, maybe alcohol would remedy that.

Instead of opening up the door, she just lowered the volume on the TV and called out. "Door's unlocked, come on in!"

She would have opened the door herself, but it was always fun to see people struggle with their manners when she requested that the manners be left by the wayside.

Instead, she just waited with a bottle of whiskey on the table in front of her couch, and a few finger foods to go with the drinks.

"How nice of your sister," Adelaida said. She gestured to Aliasse, beckoning her, calling her to sit beside.

"Considering how averse you were to the idea of coming over when we first met, I had reasons to doubt," Adelaida said with a smile. She looked over the 'present' and while it was nice, Adelaida had enough glasses to go around. But she wasn't going to turn down some actual gifts.

She moved the bowl of chips a little closer, along with the remote to the TV. "Was watching Ancient Aliens - and I still am, but if you got anything you want on, feel free.

Adelaida laughed at the thought. It wasn't any more far-fetched than any of the ideas on the actual show, so for all she knew, it may well be true. "Aliens are already among us anyway, so what's the point?"

Adelaida set glasses for the two of them on the table next to the food. She poured herself plenty of whiskey and took a drink. "Guess we can get started on the drinks. If whiskey's not your thing, I've got a full liquor bar right there, just pick out anything you want," she said, pointing to her collection of alcohols. Her proudest possession, as of late.

"I can do the basic cocktails but since I'm a whiskey girl I just take it straight," Adelaida said in between sips of drink. She was a heavy drinker, always trying to get the buzz, but at the same time she'd lived her entire life adhering to a philosophy of self control so she never quite got as rowdy as she wanted to. "The rest's mostly for the occasional nighttime guest I find at the clubs."

Adelaid finished her glass and poured out a new one. "So how's work treating you? Take down anyone recently?"