There is always Hope

Goober was absorbed in watching a young man at the far end working on a mural that read "There is always Hope". His technique was classical and the painting of a virginal muse was strikingly beautiful for a tearoom.

Puck ordered for them, “three teas would be very nice thank you,” he said taking a fiver out from his pocket. Daisy hesitated and then took it - she wasn't used to anyone paying any money in there.

Barnabus arrived with their teas. He looked very pleased to see them - almost as though they were old friends.

"Here's to the gentle souls,” he said inexplicably, picking up a glass of water with dramatis. Puck glimpsed an air of regality about the man.

Dressed in his corduroys and a yarn challenged sweater, he looked more like the crowd that he ran with, than the millionaire that he was. Puck had his security do some research and it revealed that Barnabus had begun his philanthropy over forty years ago.

"You can't bring that in here" he said pointing to Nervina's satchel. Nervina stuck his hand inside and placed it over the steel box holding the heart, protectively.

"This is a holy place you see - and we don't abide that kind of thing. Negative influence and all that - brings the place down."

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series