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[futaille]

Grantaire has seen the coffee maker being used in passing. He has not had to use it himself, as usually when he's in the kitchen, he opts for other beverages. But he knows he really should speak to Enjolras. And he also knows that even if Enjolras already has coffee, that coffee will probably either be horrible or it will have congealed into unrecognizable sludge that he will still somehow be attempting to drink, and that's just not acceptable.

So he's bound and determined to make Enjolras some coffee. It can't be that difficult, right? He grabs a bottle of wine, just to sip at while it brews. (Also, to fortify his courage. He's surely going to need it.)

On his first attempt, he has no idea what happened. Cleanup is a chore, but he actually gets assistance with both cleanup and strategy from a helpful mademoiselle with quite a bit of hair who explains the need for coffee filters, as well as the general steps one needs to take to brew the coffee in this thing. She's apparently taken one apart.

The second pot actually manages to brew into actual coffee without grounds everywhere. But upon tasting, he didn't use nearly enough coffee. Rejected.

Third pot? Too much. Rejected.

The fourth pot looks promising but the coffee is just nowhere near as good as he wants to present to Enjolras.

He finds a different variety of coffee for the fifth pot. It looks much more like it. But that sets the ratios all askew again.

Finally. Finally, pot number six turns out to be what he was looking for. He pours it into a large insulated mug that he finds in a cabinet, puts the lid on tightly, and heads off with a large mug of hot coffee in one hand, and a (now...) half-bottle of wine in the other.

There's a conversation that needs to be had.

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[futaille]

"And Temeraire has significantly more teeth." He pauses. "I think. I'm not sure how many teeth dragons actually have. They might just be larger."

[untamedantinous]

"He has quite an impressive amount. And claws, of course. He is surely a formidable enemy." There's a slight pause. "It is very difficult to imagine Buonaparte with a dragon, isn't it?" Imagine what could have happened if the Amis had had a dragon.

[futaille]

"Extremely difficult. When Temeraire told me, I was so confused. In fairness, though, it was before I found out about people from multiple worlds being present."

[untamedantinous]

"Ah," he nods. "Yes, at least I encountered him some days after my immediate arrival."

[futaille]

"Yes. I mean, I know I was hardly the best of students, but I thought I would have at least recalled being told that Bonaparte had a dragon."

[untamedantinous]

“If anyone, you would think Pontmercy would have mentioned it.”

[futaille]

He laughs. "Oh yes. That first day especially, he would have waxed rhapsodic about the Emperor's noble dragon."

[untamedantinous]

He rolls his eyes heavily. "From all I have heard Temeraire say, she is a piece of work as well."

[futaille]

"Oh, very likely. Of course, I am also a piece of work, but at least I never flew Bonaparte anywhere."