There’s a sorcerer’s summit happening in a week, wherein I’ll be stuck in the same monastery with all the people who either love or hate me for three days. Wong has contracted some sort of virus that has turned him purple and is making him sneeze once every day loud enough to bring down the house. I haven’t gotten a wink of sleep in over a week because Nightmare has decided that now would be a great time to get back to his pastime of tormenting and trying to feed off of Stephen Strange.
And I can’t take any of that out on the friend that’s just dropping by to say hello because even I’m not that much of an asshole.
It also wasn’t going to keep him from letting himself have his glass of wine, regardless of the fact that it was only 10 AM on a Tuesday. He was far from unwelcoming to see Raleigh, it just so happened that the other man was catching him at a considerably less than flattering time. Though he didn’t usually ever have flattering times anymore, the situation he was in now was even messier than his usual, and he might not have been handling it as well as he wanted because he was essentially running on mental and emotional fumes.
But strangely, getting a visitor at the door was somewhere between a blessing and a curse, but definitely a breath of fresh air regardless, and perhaps that was what he needed most.
“Sorry for the... wine,” he said when he opened the door to greet the younger man, catching the blond’s glance down at the glass in his hand. Not his proudest moment, but also not his proudest hour either. He hoped that the present company wouldn’t hold it against him too much - so far as he knew he’d already done a pretty good job of disillusioning Raleigh from any affection he might have had toward him anyway. “It’s been a rough week.” A really rough week.
“So,” he said, taking a sip of his wine and standing away from the door to let the other man though if he chose he wanted to come in. The Sanctum didn’t look any more or less like a disaster area than it usually did, but to him it felt like it because he’d been turning it inside otu looking for a cure for Wong’s magical flu. “What brings you to Greenwich Village? Aside from a chance to be in my winning company?”