He takes the cup and busies into the back right away. Their nod was paramount. Lemm shifts onto a new tack; it's something to do. Something to try, to fill the empty space between them that feels like it's starting to stretch too thin.
When he draws back out with a handful of cloths instead of the cold tea, he moves faster and with more purpose; first he pushes the curtain fully aside - whatever they see of his back room, it's more important that the warmth from the stove rolls out in a wave - and then he goes to shut the shop door.
"Not locked," he mutters as an aside, because Hallownest mechanisms are uncomfortably loud. "Just keeping the heat in. Leave when you please."
He returns behind the counter and ponders over the shelves.
Eventually, Lemm plucks out a small antique pot varnished into swirling shapes, the inside of it moulded to spiral like a fossil so that whatever was put into it might sit in tiers. He holds it out, and then in the other hand a cleaning cloth is offered to go with it.
"Here. Do what you can to get this clean."
Clever but uncomplicated shape, sturdy stone-like feel, no sharp corners. He's just... going to try them with something simple, first. He doesn't know what their manipulation is like, especially with one hand to speak of. (It might set them up for failure to give them something easily broken. That's not how it's done.)
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When he draws back out with a handful of cloths instead of the cold tea, he moves faster and with more purpose; first he pushes the curtain fully aside - whatever they see of his back room, it's more important that the warmth from the stove rolls out in a wave - and then he goes to shut the shop door.
"Not locked," he mutters as an aside, because Hallownest mechanisms are uncomfortably loud. "Just keeping the heat in. Leave when you please."
He returns behind the counter and ponders over the shelves.
Eventually, Lemm plucks out a small antique pot varnished into swirling shapes, the inside of it moulded to spiral like a fossil so that whatever was put into it might sit in tiers. He holds it out, and then in the other hand a cleaning cloth is offered to go with it.
"Here. Do what you can to get this clean."
Clever but uncomplicated shape, sturdy stone-like feel, no sharp corners. He's just... going to try them with something simple, first. He doesn't know what their manipulation is like, especially with one hand to speak of. (It might set them up for failure to give them something easily broken. That's not how it's done.)