#scarsdale

"You know as much as we do" Tziporah assures her "Not that that helps"

"It does not."

"feh!"

Earl opens the kitchen and looks in "Well, Tziporah and you won't need to clean I can tell you that. want me to get you that pudding love, or put tea on?"

"tea."

And he does so; by now he's had so much practice he does it very well... for a troll.

"So, how have you been?" Tziporah asks Zara, perhaps to distract herself

Even if Zara's love and curious nature eat at her. Is her papa okay? Clearly not. He fainted. WHY did he faint?

"Mayhaps an omen..."

"I'm getting Papa's pipe."

Papa hasn't been allowed to smoke the pipe for years, but he does like chewing on it.

"It's at its usual spot" Tziporah say

The pipe is retreived, and tea is ready