Usually, Magdalena carried a thermo mug with her everywhere, full of coffee her family mailed to her every few months. She would fight to the ends of the Earth about the superiority of her mug of Yaucono goodness to most anything she could get in the States. HOWEVER, she overslept and got ready for the day in a hurry, hence her thermo-less self waiting in line at Cafe Demeter for a shot of caffeine. She hasn’t really been in this cafe since her undergrad years, if she’s being honest, and the whole place gives her a sense of deja vu.
But there is nothing more nostalgia-inducing about the cafe than the board behind the counter listing the prices. She squints her eyes, furrowing her brows and tilting her head toward the person behind her, “I swear to God, the price for average coffee just gets higher every year, huh.”
Being a double-majors student means pulling all nighters and drinking possibly every energy drink there is in existence just to hand in the assignments before or on the due dates. Which is exactly why Renad is here, in the coffee shop, waiting in line and looking at the list written on the board above the counter; usually she'd order something with way too much sugar &. energy in it—too much to the point where it feels like she is on another plane of existence, about to fistfight a deity or something—but these days have been less hectic than before, so she is trying to go with something else that is not her usual order.
Renad turns her gaze to the person in front of her and, although it probably goes unseen, her lips quirk a bit to the side in a half-lopsided smile. "Yeah, it sure does. The prices of... pretty much everything have been going up a lot lately and that's a problem. Why would the average coffee cost that much?" she kind of scoffs a little at the end and shakes her head.
