Flora glances at her occasionally but doesn't say anything. She plates her own omelette sans tortilla and sits across from Denice and eats it, fork and knife and glass of water. "Some parishoners are planning to come over a little later this evening and meet you," she mentions.

Okay.

"You don't need to decide today, but if you found that you got along with some of them, there are people who'd be happy to open their home to you."

New people are scary. But she'll try.

"Just one couple's coming tonight, and another one tomorrow. I'm not going to flood you with them," smiles Flora.

She relaxes a little: That's good, she appreciates it.

"And there's no rush. I have a spare room just for this sort of situation."

That gets a little smile.

Flora smiles back. She finishes her omelette and puts her plate in the dishwasher. "There's going to be a church social here in about an hour, you're completely welcome to stay in your room if you'd rather. Afterwards the Glories will stay to say hello to you."

Yeah she will probably stay in her room. The Glories are the couple she's supposed to meet?

"That's right. They're magical too, and they've been married ever since it's been legal. Well, and then some, in God's eyes."

All right. (She's not actually sure what that means, but presumably she'll find out; she doesn't ask.)

"They're very sweet and they've been looking to adopt for a while now."

She makes herself relax, and doesn't hide that she's making herself: She'll see what they're like when she meets them. She hopes she likes them.

"I hope so too." And Flora smiles at her and busies herself with setting things up for the social; apparently the cookies are for that, and a lot of the fruit, and the ice cream, though that she leaves in the freezer and merely fetches suggestive ice cream scooping implements.

She helps with fetching and carrying, using cartoon trays for some of it.

"What a useful spell!"

Yeah.

"Mine aren't as practical. But we all have what God wants for us."

She has always been a very practical sort of person, yeah. But she bets Flora's are nice, too.

"I have some magic for enhancing music, and one for illusions - nothing you'd believe to look at it, or even a Powerpoint presentation, just for pretty - and if I get more dressed up I can dance, but I usually don't. I use it during services."

Sounds lovely.

"You're more than welcome to come to services, there's one Sunday mornings and an evening one on Saturday."

She'll look forward to it.

"Don't feel obliged, of course, I don't know anything about your religious beliefs," she says.