Lucette doesn't love the options but the challenge of succeeding at fashion is at least somewhat interesting.

The carriage ride is smooth for a carriage ride, which isn't very, and brings them to a large manor on the outskirts of London that is nonetheless smaller than the Oakhill city manor. A servant is on hand to help them down from the carriage and from there it's a short walk to the dining room.

"Lovely to see you Lady Marburry, and I am most thankful for your willingness to accept my rather last minute addition to your party - may I introduce to you Haru Swan, Duke of Beruna in Narnia. Duke Swan, may I introduce you to our host, Lady Marburry of Stufolk." says Lucette, using a less formal title for the lady as unlike Haru she is not a new entry to the social scene.

"It was not a bother at all, I'm delighted to make the acquaintance of any guest of yours, much less one who has traveled from as far away as Narnia. Welcome to my manor, Duke Swan, I am honored you made my humble party your first in London."

"Thank you very much for accommodating my arrival, Lady Marburry." He could make some dozen different possible comments and he's going to not because it would be far too easy to fuck it up.

"It's a pleasure! Please enjoy - I must attend to other arrivals alas."

And Lucette can introduce him to other people, with slightly less formality, a trio of which will eagerly question him about how he arrived in London and whether it was a difficult journey.

"I found myself quite unaccountably transported into Lady Oakhill's residence all at once, and could not begin to tell you how it happened, but at least the voyage had the virtue of being brief."

"Is this a common occurence in Narnia?"

"Not at all."

"How curious, are there wi-"

"Oh let's not talk of such weighty topics so early in the evening, especially when we havn't even asked Lord Swan about the lighter parts of Narnia. I for one would like to know whether their own fashion is very different from our own."

"Exceedingly, yes, I've had to borrow clothes so as not to appear too outlandish here."

"Oh, what wouid you ordinarily wear to an event such as this?"

"The event also would be strange in Narnia but analogizing as closely as possible I'd have arrived in a finely knit shirt, and heavy woven blue trousers, both cotton."

"Just a shirt?" asks a scandalized young woman.

"For indoors, yes, Narnians favor a very little-layered approach. Getting there I might have had a jacket against the weather."

"And would women attend these same parties?"

"Typically, yes."

"And they'd have a similar lack of layers or no?"

"I've never tried to closely investigate," he demurs, because there is surely no way to decorously say 'they have bras', let alone explain what a bra is.

The asker giggles at his reply.

The group, which grows when people notice Haru's prescence, have quite a few quesitons about the social scene of Narnia. They'd like to know about the food, the entertainment, whether they dance, whether they have larger events - this one is quite small and intimate, he really must come to the proper courting season balls - and what Narnian events are his personal favorites.

He can talk about "Narnian" food - he might be able to recreate a few recipes if the ingredients available are similar enough, he's dabbled in the kitchen on occasion for enrichment though of course most of the time the chef, a Mister Kraft, handled it. Narnians are big on, uh, theater, sometimes long-running serial productions of theater where you need to attend dozens of times for the complete story. Narnians dance, but he's never been big on the dance scene himself and cannot demonstrate well. Big events include sporting events - he's not himself a fan but they attract sometimes upwards of a thousand people - but he's more of a reader.

He's got a crowd growing around him by the time dinner is served - they're shocked and fascinated by the concept of him cooking and several young woman attempt to convince him to oversee their cooks in preparation of Narnian dishes, each wanting to be responsible for the introduction of Narnian cuisine to London. There's also quite a bit of interest in what stories are told in the serial productions.

...he really should have consulted Lucette about how to render Cricket's name as an unremarkable human name. But, uh, sure, his best friend who he declines to name at this time loves the theater and tells him all about it, though again Duke Swan himself is more of a reader. He will summarize Game of Thrones, it seems easier to translate than most things.

"Oh dear, is your King typically decided upon by such a violent process?"

"No, not at all, this is fiction."

"Oh good."