The Christian Mission tearoom was crowded with elderly men, comforted with scones and bingo and the societal warmth that the meeting place did bring.
No sooner had Puck walked in was he greeted by an older woman with a generous smile. Her name-badge identified her as one of the volunteers, and she had embellished it with a daisy drawn with a smiley face, coloured with a yellow felt tip pen.
Nervina and Goober both looked suitably shabby - even Puck himself had dressed down, wearing just jeans and a hoody (which, as he had pointed out many a time, never really went out of fashion).
They searched the room for Barnabus but could not see him amongst the sea of hats and bald heads.
"Barnabus is out spruiking for the tearoom - we have a few places left for lunch today, which you men might have just filled. I'll call him on the mobile for you. He shouldn't be long" said Daisy, whose name just happened to be Daisy as well as wearing a picture of one on her name tag.
"What would you boys like?"
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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