Zelda smiled. "I think he has a decent stock of tea," she said, although she was not at all convinced that he did. Delight didn't have to know that until they were there, though. And Alfred would surely have some form of hot drinks, even if it wasn't as much a variety of tea as Delight would have liked.

She put her arm around Delight's, half for the camaraderie and half because she did not want either of them to slip on the ice. "It's four or so streets away," she said, beginning to lead them out of this street and onto the next. "Thankfully."

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