Realization (Espressoleine)

Herb gathering.

It was a sunny day, not that espresso would actually make the effort of going outside and checking but he was sure it was, the blaring heat from the curtains and the light illuminating them totally wasn't a dead give away.

Espresso sighed as he got up from his workbench, he stayed up all night to finish one of his experiments again. It's not really a surprise to anybody in the kingdom even the outsiders from the republic who visit often aren't surprised. He winces as he stands up trying to balance himself by holding onto his chair for support, his vision starts to blur as he wobbles his way towards the kitchen, occasionally balancing himself on various objects along the way.

He eventually makes it to the counter blinking as many times as he can as if that would stop the room from spinning. He walks over to his fridge expecting something to be there but as always it's empty. Why did he even buy one in the first place if he's not gonna put anything in it? Wrong. He does store some things in it. For example, last week's experiment with ice coffee. Too cold for him. Another experiment from a month ago which needed to be kept cold so it could work. Turns out he left it in there for too long and it exploded on him. Tho aside from all that food wise? His fridge has nothing of that sort.

His stomach rumbles as he now searches his cabinets for something to eat or maybe some leftover rye bread. Tho to his expectation he found nothing.the professor rolls his eyes at his own ignorance. He walks over to his work chair sliding his signature coat from the backrest and quickly clothes himself.

Walking over to the door now with his satchel over his left shoulder checking for the 3rd time if he has enough coins to buy some food to probably last until next month.

He opens his door hovering a hand over his face trying to block the blinding gaze of the sun greeting him. He couldn't really see all that much with the sun over his face but he could definitely see the wide eyed woman standing a few feet away from him with what seems like she's holding a bag close to her chest.

"Latte cookie." he greets wholeheartedly (not). "It's unlikely for you to go out at this time of day, what's the occasion?" she says handing him the bag.he skeptically takes it and looks inside curious of what his dear co-worker gave him. To his surprise it was a bag of tart jampies, glazed donuts, and some golden croissants, they all looked like they were freshly baked.

He closes the bag of delicacies as he tries and keeps it composure "I simply wanted to go out and get some herbs for another experiment" he blatantly lies. She raises a brow with her spoon broom thing in hand before she sighs. "May I join then? I've been stuck inside grading students' work for the whole week. I haven't gotten the chance to escape out in the wild and have some fun" she chuckles to herself.

"Very well then." espresso says with a deadpan expression on his face before he stores the bag of delicacies into his satchel barely fitting due to the size.