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[Senator Danar Tassar]

Senator Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya had invited senator Danar Tassar to come to drink thee sometimes to get to know each other. When Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya had the time, Tassar went to the embassy of the new member to drink some thee.

[Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya]

As he arrives at the Azaryan embassy, Danar Tassar might notice that the embassy was looking more like a ruin than a proper place to receive guests. Everywhere Azaryan workers were busy renovating and redecorating the place, all chanting the same single mantra over and over again, almost as if they were in some kind of trance. There seemed to be no other communication between the workers. Even so, things were progressing just nicely.

At the entrance of the embassy stands a single Azarya, a spiky-haired woman in an elaborate white-yellow-and-red coloured dress, standing in front of the front opening of the building. The door was still missing or at least not present. Assuming Danar Tassar moves closer to the embassy, the woman looks up at him, then takes a small folding digital monitor out og one of the hidden pockets of her dress, shortly points the device at Danar, then nods at him with a smile.

"Ah yes, Senator Danar Tassar. Welcome, welcome. You must excuse the mess... We only moved into this building a few days ago and we are still working on it. This way, please..."

The Azaryan woman gestures Danar Tassar to follow after her as she walks into the embassy. Inside, the building is not faring much better.

"Senator al-Chak'zya will be with you shortly. Is there anything I can assist you with until then, senator?"

[Senator Danar Tassar]

As the senator looks around, he is impressed of the teamwork the workers have. Somehow it reminds him of an well trained group fecta working together, but this was still looking more advanced, or evolved was a better term in this way.

He turned to the host to answer the question:"No thank you, I will be fine." He rested the urge to correct the implications of the words the host welcomed him with. This was one of the reasons he was chosen to represent the Teprogrenaian Consensus. His skill with understanding sentences of other species was much greater then of most of the teprogrena.

He and his aid took a seat when one was offered and waited for the Senator.

[Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya]

"Understood. Please wait here."

They had arrived at a room that seemed slightly more finished. At least there were no workers here, but the incessant droning of the workers' mantra could still clearly be heard.
In the room were a couple of comfortable chairs, a table and a carafe filled with water and some glasses. Even though this room seemed ready, there was still very little decoration presernt.

"I'll be excused then, senator..."

The Azaryan woman bowed slightly towards Danar Tassar and then walked back towards the entrance of the building. It took a couple more minutes for Zalyass to arrive, giving Danar Tassar some time to look around or have a glass of water.

Then, coughing heavily, Zalyass almost stormed in, covered in dust, quickly closing the door behind her. Still, she couldn't prevent a small cloud of dust whirling into the room. Still coughing, she raised a hand towards Danar Tassar in greeting and quickly poured herself a glass of water, dunking it in one big sip. After a few seconds, her coughing fit became a bit more manageable. She looked back at Danar Tassar, looking rather miserable. She knew she had made a horrible entry and probably a bad second impression. She sighed.

"I am so, so sorry, Representative Danar Tassar, for arriving at you like this. For even letting you stay in this dump we call an embassy. Everything has gone wrong today. They even decided to remove a wall right next to this room just as I was walking past it. I got the full treatment as you can see. I can only hope that you... This is just..."

Zalyass raised her hands in desperation and wondered why she had ever listened to that advisor who told her to show the Representative the craft and skill of the Azaryan workers... It seemed like a good idea at the time...

"I am horrified at the thought of what you might be thinking about this fiasco. I am so, so sorry..."

((OOC: Not the most professional bunch, are they? ^^))

[Senator Danar Tassar]

He answered the hand with his own, and given her appearance he was not surprised her priority was a glass of water.

“I must say, I am impressed by the teamwork your workers show, however the engineers might need a little training.” Pointing at the fact she get a bunch of pile dust over her.

By now, she might have noticed the senator had leaved the water untouched.

He continued to with his opinion about the workers. Were most teprogrena would have said bluntly what was in their mind, he made sure his words were positive in nature: “It is remarkable how well your workers seems to know what to do, without talking to each other. The fecta of my species have a build in com system, my guess is your species have a similar way of communication. I thought I have read your species are telepathic, a remarkable attainment indeed.”

He then he took a look at the appearance of the woman before him: “I understand if you like to freshen up a little, after your incident. My schedule is clear for this afternoon and I am patient so it won’t be a problem.”

[Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya]

Zalyass wiped some of the dust off of her hair and skirt as she observed Danar Tassar's response. She realized that he responded quite mildly to all this. At Nest, she had been warned multiple times about the Senators of the Union and that she should never ever make the slightest error lest she would offend one. Looking at Danar Tassar, Zalyass was happy to see that not all senators were like that.

"*cough* Nah, I' ll be just fine. And, well, yes, I guess you could call it telepathy of sorts. It is nowhere nearly as advanced as that, though. It is more like we can synchronize our minds, but when we do that, an individual's perception of their surroundings is completely gone. They had to remove the wall just now, so they remove the wall..."

As she whirled her hands through her bright yellow and black hair, bits of plaster fell onto the ground. Looking down at the small pile of rubble at her feet, Zalyass realized something.

"On second thought... Give me a few minutes, I' ll be right back. Can I get you anything to eat or drink while I' m gone?"

[Senator Danar Tassar]

"No thank you, it is our customs to drink together during social conventions. If I drink now, I would not have tea any more, which is a shame, I like tea."

He looked a second at his aid to see what he wanted, but he also didn't have to have had a drink.

"Before I forget, you do not have to serve anything for my aid, he will be leaving before the tea."

The aid, also a danar, was carrying a small package, a little insight could tell the package had something to do with it.

[Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya]

"Okay, then. If you excuse me."

Zalyas bowed slightly at Danar Tassar and his aid and hastily walked out of the room. As she closed the door, a soft sigh could be heard. It was probably one of desperation. Why did she have to mess things up like this?

.. A few uneventful minutes had passed when Zalyass re-entered the room, now no longer covered in dust, but in slightly less impressing clothes. It appeared that her set of fancy clothes had been covered in dust just now. Not that her current clothing was 'cheap' or anyhting like that.

After Zalyass had closed the door once more, she looked up at Danar Tassar with a slightly forced smile. She hadn't had that much to smile about anyway with what happened just now.

"Right. My most humble apologies for that. Let's try and get reacquainted, yes? The tea will arrive shortly so we still have some time."

Zalyass walked towards the chair Danar Tassar was sitting in and bowed deeply in front of him.

"I am Senator Zalyass al-Chak'zya Azara-ya of the Unified Empire of Azaryan Colonies. I am very glad to see you accepted my offer of a fresh start for the both of us, even though I figure that your second impression of us still leaves some room for improvement..."

[Senator Danar Tassar]

Danar Tassar did not shown many emotions, and it did not help teprogrenaian physiology would be hard to read sometimes.

"You are in a new environment, trying to fit in a new way of life to impress new people. It is understandable that you have some challenges in the new place. So far all you have done is a great job to embarrass yourselves to me, but that can be either a difference in culture, a result to the point that everything is new here or because you are incompetent and even then, accidents happens all the time. In case of the first two, it is I who should apologise for saying that you have embarrassed yourself, especially when it is a matter of culture.

As I do not know what the reason for the behaviour is, I can not yet form a opinion on the matter."

After a brief pauze, the senator quickly added: "I think it is better you don't tell me."

Then as he was waiting for this moment, he turned to his aid and gestured to give him something. His aid was carrying a small box and handed it over to Tassar. Tassar then gave his aid the day off after which he left.

The senator of the consensus put the box on the table and looked at Senator Zalyass.

"I have a small gift for you, although I must say it is more out of necessity than out of courtesy. As you doubtless have noticed, my species do not have a ventral mouth, in contrary to most other species. Instead, we have something familiar to gills. Therefore I have brought this: A special teprogrenaian tea cup." After which the senator opened the box and revealed a kind of bottle with two tubes.



"It is our habit to drink together out one bottle, so I offer to you to drink together out this cup. However I do totally understand when you don't like to drink together out one cup, a lot of species seem to have this kind of hosophobia for each other. It is not embarrassing to decline, it is not disgraceful and I will think literally nothing of it. My offer to drink out of this cup is nothing more than a hospitality from my side to you."

The senator had the feeling he had to make very clear that Zalyass simply could decline to drink out the same cup, as he was afraid she would drink not because she wanted to, but because she thought it would make a good impression.