#on a random note: mulan!au where alice is mulan and oliver is the matchmaker

[advernia]

leaf water for dummies || 3 sentences: oliver knight, alice the second + day after day.

It’s the first cup he literally considers spitting out of his mouth because for the love of God, it hardly tastes like anything at all, just lukewarm water poorly sweetened by the two sugar cubes he dropped in - he relays this heart-felt sentiment to her through only two words (’it’s horrible’), and what does he get in return? A big old huff, that’s what, and it was combined with an ugly frown and the puff of plump cheeks.

The twenty-ninth cup had better - repeat, better - water temperature, but whatever lack of heat the water had couldn’t hold a candle to the ridiculous excess of a very bitter flavor swirling in the cup: he spits it out, she spits it out, and after some time at looking at each other she just bursts out laughing, shaking her head as she took his cup away - back to the drawing board, she mumbled to herself while heading back to the kitchen and he sighs a not-so heavy sigh to himself before trailing after her - would he ever get around to drinking decent tea again?